From Babylonia to Bombay to Burma: Sojourning through Asian Hebraica by Way of New York
Abstract
This winter past, I journeyed to Sotheby’s to bear witness to a wonder: the hallowed holdings of the Valmadonna Trust Library (VTL) collection on exhibit in New York. I ventured forth to explore this rarefied repository of tenth- through early twentieth-century1 CE texts, declared by the cognoscenti to be “the finest private library of Hebrew books and manuscripts in the world.”2 As I joined the caravan of inquiring minds and devout adherents alike in a lengthy line that extended around the corner from the auction house’s York Avenue entrance, the hour-long wait allowed me time to cross-match the gallery floor
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