Stolen manuscript to be returned to Tel Aviv's Rambam library
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A 215-year-old Jewish manuscript stolen from a Tel Aviv library a decade ago will be returned by the German library where it surfaced, Tel Aviv city official Avigdor Levin said Tuesday.
According to Levin, Israeli embassy officials are currently arranging the manuscript's transfer from the German National Library in Berlin back to Israel.
A 1998 inventory check at the Rambam Library in Tel Aviv revealed that the one-of-a-kind manuscript was missing. Titled "The Book of the Levite's Worship," it was a 1793 treatise on Jewish law.
An Israeli scholar eventually discovered the manuscript was at the German library and the Israelis negotiated its return. Levin said Tuesday the Germans did not know it was stolen and displayed "a lot of good will" in agreeing to return it to Tel Aviv.
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