Missing 400-year-old Jewish manuscript to return to Mexico

[hrmjustin]

Reuters

The oldest Jewish document of the New World will be returned to Mexico in March, more than seven decades after it disappeared.

The document, a 1595 autobiography of Luis de Carvajal, is considered to be an important artefact showing Jewish life on the American continent but disappeared from Mexico’s national archives more than 75 years ago, according to the Mexican consulate in New York.

It resurfaced on auction markets in London and New York in 2015 and 2016, and was subsequently lent to the museum of the New York Historical Society by the Mexican government.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/04/missing-400-year-old-jewish-manuscript-to-return-to-mexico

[Goblinmonger]

1. That's interesting.

I would not have put the oldest Jewish manuscript of this continent in Mexico. Learn something new every day.