Old 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 in the collection
in Cairo, Teheran, Vienna, Paris, Morocco and Israel.

She donated some particularly 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.