Two-Thirds of a 15th-Century Portuguese High Holiday Prayer Book Were Lost to History. Until Now. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Two-thirds of a 15th-century Portuguese High Holiday prayer book were lost to history. Until now. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A rare 15th-century Portuguese Jewish manuscript, long incomplete after it was split into three parts, is whole again after the National Library of Israel reunited its final missing pieces. The Lisbon Mahzor, which contains Sephardic prayers for the High Holidays, Three Festivals and more, was produced by the Lisbon school of Portuguese Jewry in the final years before the region’s Jews were forced to either convert or be expelled in 1496. “It ap…

Two-thirds of a 15th-century Portuguese High Holiday prayer book were lost to history. Until now.

A rare 15th-century Portuguese Jewish manuscript, long incomplete after it was split into three parts, is whole again after the National Library of Israel reunited its final missing pieces.