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Alfred Moses with Codex Sassoon. Credit: Courtesy.

Alfred Moses: ‘I bought the Sassoon Codex for the Jewish people, not for me’

The former U.S. ambassador to Romania bought the most expensive book ever sold ... and then donated it to a Jewish museum in Tel Aviv.

Menachem Wecker

June 6, 2023

Codex Sassoon sells for $33.5 million, a record for a book sold at auction, at Sotheby's in New York on May 17, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Sotheby's.

Tel Aviv ANU–Museum of the Jewish People buys Codex Sassoon for $38.1 million

The near-complete Hebrew Bible edged out a volume by Leonardo da Vinci as the most expensive sold at auction ever.

Menachem Wecker

May 17, 2023

The Codex Sassoon (late ninth to early 10th century). Credit: Courtesy of Sotheby's.

Oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible to be displayed at Tel Aviv museum

Thousand-year-old Codex Sassoon manuscript is expected to fetch up to $50 million at Sotheby’s.

Etgar Lefkovits

March 12, 2023