Judaica

Rita grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in New Jersey and, although she became a relatively secular Jew as an adult, she always remained very interested in Judaica. Wherever she traveled, beginning in 1958, she was on the lookout for old Judaica. She found many interesting items for the collection in Cairo, Teheran, Vienna, Paris, Morocco and Israel.

She donated some special items, such as part of a Torah scroll from a ransacked synagogue in Morocco, to a museum, but never sold any part of her collection during her lifetime. She used one beautiful pendant of the ten commandments in a necklace she always wore when flying, as a protective amulet.

Note: Some photographs below contain multiple items, and each available item in these images is now listed separately, with its own photo, description and item number/letter combination. Consequently, multiple versions of the same photograph may appear in the page below.