A tiny prayer book once belonging to Marilyn Monroe is making a big debut at auction. Known as a siddur in Hebrew, the small Jewish book of prayers is expected to fetch $15,000 as it goes up for auction at the Antique Judaica & Jewish Art Gallery in Cedarhurst,...
Of the things Marilyn Monroe is best known for, being Jewish is not on the list. But the impending sale of Monroe’s personal prayer book — or siddur, as it’s called in Hebrew — has piqued interest in the role religion played in the star’s cinematic life story. Monroe...
By Isaac Stanley-Becker October 16 at 4:58 AM Marilyn Monroe was the woman on the screen — hardly even real, so exalted was her public image. But she was also a person of the book, as some Jews call themselves. The actress converted to Judaism in 1956 when she married...
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