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File - In this file photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Eli and Shuli Barzilai hold a copy of the Birds' Head Haggadah, the text read around Jewish dinner tables on the Passover holiday, in their home in Jerusalem. Last year, the descendants of German Jewish lawmaker Ludwig Marum requested the Israel Museum pay compensation for the famed Bird's Head Haggadah. They say the Haggadah was snatched from their grandfather's family after he was rounded up by the Nazis and later sold to the predecessor of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem without their consent. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

Jewish family renews fight for Passover manuscript

By DANIEL ESTRIN - Associated Press

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Eli Barzilai holds a copy of the Birds' Head Haggadah in his house in Jerusalem. Barzilai and his cousins, the grandchildren of one of the earliest Jewish victims of the Nazis, are laying claim to a jewel of Israel's leading museum: the world's oldest surviving illustrated Passover manuscript. The descendants of a German Jewish lawmaker say the famed Birds' Head Haggadah, a medieval copy of the text read around Jewish dinner tables on Passover, was stolen from their family during the Nazi era and sold without their consent to the predecessor of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Jewish family makes claims to prized Passover manuscript

By DANIEL ESTRIN - Associated Press