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Nov 19 2018
The Jewish ChronicleEnglish Collector's Rare Judaica Sells for Nearly £250,000A rare edition of a work of Maimonides fetched more than three times its estimated value as some of the last books of a famous Judaica library compiled by an English collector went on sale in New York at the end of last week... -
Jan 17 2018
Jewish Museum in PragueMissing Rare Print Returned To The Jewish Museum In PragueMeasures taken jointly by he Jewish Museum in Prague and the NYC based auction house Kestenbaum & Co. led to the successful restitution of a rare print dating from 16th century which had been missing from the library collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague. On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 in the Auditorium of the Education and Culture Centre of the Jewish Museum in Prague, a restitution ceremony took place. Daniel E. Kestenbaum of Kestenbaum & Company, a specialist auction house... -
Oct 26 2017
The Jewish Link200 Volumes From the Valmadonna Trust Library to Be Sold at AuctionA historic event in the annals of Jewish rare books will take place in New York City on November 9. Kestenbaum & Company, known widely as auctioneers of rare books, manuscripts and fine arts, will be auctioning off 200 rare volumes from the renowned Valmadonna Trust Library. This event will allow collectors and institutional libraries from across the globe a unique opportunity to acquire extraordinary bibliographic treasures from this celebrated collection. -
Jul 09 2017
The Houston ChronicleA Jewish Art RenaissanceShe is serene and dignified, perhaps even a little bored. Her eyes are slate blue and her lips bee-stung. She wears the marriage finery of early 20th-century Orthodox Judaism: a fur-trimmed cape, satin bib and a tiara boasting 300 small pearls. Despite her humble status - other Jews at the time would have regarded her Hasidic family as backward - she is obviously a woman of means. And 112 years after first being painted, her image still commands the room -
Mar 10 2017
The Times of IsraelUnread copy of 16th-century multilingual Psalms, loathed by Columbus’s son, up for auctionAlso on the block at NY sale next week, first printing of a George Washington speech to Congress with a shout-out to the Rhode Island Jewish community -
Sep 21 2016Russian Art + CultureEarly Soviet posters to be featured in Kestenbaum & Company auction, 22 SeptemberKestenbaum & Company, the New York City based boutique auction house dedicated to the sale of Fine Judaica will be offering for auction-sale a rare collection of early Soviet posters.
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Jun 18 2016www.Collive.comFrierdiker Rebbe's Diary For $18KThe financial notebook of the Frierdiker Rebbe is expected to fetch $18,000 -- it tells the challenging days of Chabad in the 1940s.
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Dec 23 2015
Jewish Home LAKabbalist or Charlatan? The Life and Times of ‘Dr.’ Samuel Falk, The ‘Baal Shem of London’The auction room in midtown Manhattan suddenly went quiet. It was late afternoon, Thursday, January 31, 2013. With a dramatic flourish the auctioneer began the bidding for Lot #287. The room was filled with an eclectic mix of seasoned collectors, Hasidic Judaica dealers, and inquisitive aficionados of Jewish art. -
Dec 16 2015
Art DailyRare Moritz Daniel Oppenheim painting is among featured works to be sold at Kestenbaum & CompanyNEW YORK, NY.- A rare, 1867 oil painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim; a classical, c. 1895 oil painting by Lazar Krestin; a 1912 charcoal-and-wash drawing by David Bomberg and a modernist, c. 1990, oil painting by Moshe Kadishman are among the featured lots to be offered for sale in 150 Years of Jewish Art at Kestenbaum & Company in New York City on December 16. -
Dec 12 2015
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Dec 11 2015“In Case of Moshiach Break Glass”: Pop Artist Takes on the World, with a Jewish Twist“Then Moses said to the people of Israel, ‘See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft.’” (Exodus 35:30-32)
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Dec 03 2015Behold, the “Liberty Bell Chanukah Lamp”Specializing in rare and important Judaica in all its diversity, Kestenbaum & Company is a New York auction house whose Nov. 19 sale offerings attracted the attention of collectors, curators and archivists around the world. Included among the treasure trove of sacred and secular books, manuscripts, fine art and objects like the guitar once owned by the celebrated performer Shlomo Carlebach, was the “Liberty Bell Chanukah Lamp”.
