{"id":1792,"date":"2009-11-10T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2009\/11\/hebrew-bible-looted-by-nazis-b.php"},"modified":"2009-11-10T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T17:50:00","slug":"hebrew-bible-looted-by-nazis-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2009\/11\/hebrew-bible-looted-by-nazis-b","title":{"rendered":"Hebrew Bible Looted by Nazis Being Sent to Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; A 16th century Hebrew Bible looted by the Nazis six decades ago was returned to Vienna&#8217;s Jewish community Monday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials turned over the two-volume Bible to two Austrian emissaries during a repatriation ceremony at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan.<br \/>\nPublished in Venice in 1516-17, the Bible once was part of the well-known medieval manuscripts collection of S.H. Halberstam, officials said. In 1908, it was donated to the Vienna Jewish community library.<br \/>\nIn 1938, during the annexation of Austria, Nazi soldiers confiscated the Bible in a seizure of the Jewish community&#8217;s library, and the Bible later wound up in Berlin.<br \/>\nIt was illegally imported into the United States in March, authorities said.<br \/>\nIn June, New York auction house Kestenbaum &amp; Co., which specializes in rare books, offered the Bible for sale, according to immigration officials and federal prosecutors. An investigation by immigration officials concluded that it belonged to the library.<br \/>\nThe auctioneer had been unaware of its history and withdrew it from the sale.<br \/>\nThe Bible includes an Aramaic summary and a series of commentaries by medieval rabbinic figures from the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.<br \/>\nIt was given to Ariel Muzicant, president of Vienna&#8217;s Jewish community, and Ernst-Peter Brezovsky, Austrian consul-general.<br \/>\n<em>Associated Press &#8211; November 9, 2009<br \/>\nCopyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; A 16th century Hebrew Bible looted by the Nazis six decades ago was returned to Vienna&#8217;s Jewish community Monday. 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