Rebb Schloime Klappzymbels… von Johann Aduard Sack. Lemberg, 1814.
"Rabbi Schloime Klappzymbels, an accurate description of the Lemberg Jewry at the time of the peace celebrations, dedicated to his faithful friend Rabbi Hersch Shmeckpüdele, as memento for the feeling of happiness during the event" [names are fictional].
Booklet written in Antique Galician-Yiddish in Latin letters. At the bottom of each page are notes in Gothic letters which translate special Jewish and Polish terms.
The booklet includes description of the visit of the Austrian Kaiser in Lemberg from the point of view of the Jewish residents, including a Thanksgiving prayer in the synagogue for the signing of the peace treaty, a parade of the Cheder children and the Melamed, Klezmers, kinds of food served, the Keter Tora which was presented to the Kaiser, exact naming of the squares and streets, Doctor Rapoport who donated a portrait of the Kaiser to the community etc.
The visit of Kaiser Franz I in Lemberg was held following the defeat of Napoleon and the re-dividing of Europe in the Paris agreement. Part of this agreement included annexation of parts of Galicia to Austria.
An important description of an historical event in the life of the Jewish community.
16 pages, 17 cm. Good condition, stains.
Rare.

1. Short list – Yosef Schlezinger, Book store and publishing house, Vienna. No year of print. Lists of 1247 books followed by Judaica objects. Fair condition.
2. Catalogue No. 74 – Hebraica and Judaica, old prints from before 1600, David Frankel. Vienna, no year of print. List of 166 books, some dated from before 1600. English, with Hebrew index. Good condition.
Varying sizes and condition.

1. Keter Torah, Bereshit combinations, hints for the 613 commandments in the word “Bereshit”. Rabbi Yehoshua Weiss from Honiad. Marghita, (1943). Only edition. “Approbations of genius and righteous rabbis of his village”. At end of last issue the publisher, Rabbi Zvi Moskovitz added a printed note: “Never printed again as the manuscript was lost during the years of the war and the author passed away”.
48 pages, 21.5 cm. Good condition, unbound.
2. Mishnayot, including Tiferet Yisrael, Seder Mo’ed first part. [Gyarmat -Budapest, c. 1943].
Printed as individual pamphlets, the following are the first pamphlets which include the forwards “Kalkalat Shabbat, Kupat HaRochlim, Shvilei Derakia” and the first Mishnah from Shabbat tractate, [on page 4 notice of the publisher Moshe Chaim Steiner: “…each week two pamphlets are released from the press… and frankly I must say that I have printed few… since the expense of the print is great and it is difficult to obtain the paper”].
6, 40, 2 pages. 31.5 cm. Very good condition. Issues uncut. New cloth binding.
From Dr. Israel Mehlman’s private collection.

1. Toldot Ya'akov Yosef. "Keter" print, Landsberg, 1949. (Commemoration page for the victims of the Holocaust on the back of the title page “May G-d revenge their spilled blood”).
2. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. Special edition “for the survivors of the Diaspora, by the United American Jewish Rescue Committee”. Munich, 1948.
3. Hagadah Shel Pesah, by the United American Jewish Rescue Committee. [Printed in Jerusalem, 1947]. Ya’ari 2339; Otzar Ha-Haggadot 4038.
4. Mivchar Ha-Peninim. “Yitzchaki” print, Landsberg, 1948.
Varying sizes and conditions.

1. Babylonian Talmud, Tractates Chaggigah and Mo'ed Katan, with Mishnayot Shevi'it. Munich, 1947. "Gift from Va'ad HaHatzalah to Holocaust survivors who studied the daily page of Talmud and the daily Mishnah".
2. Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Yevamot, with Mishnayot Terumot. Munich, 1948. With calendar for the study of the daily page of Talmud and the daily Mishnah.
3. Chochmat Adam with Binat Adam, by Rabbi Avraham Danczig. Bergen Belsen, 1948.
4. Prayer book Shema Koleinu, prayers for all days of the year. Stockholm, 1946. "this prayer book is intended for the devastated Jewish communities…".
5. Chovat HaLevavot, by Rabeinu Bachaye, with Hebrew-German commentary. Vol. I. Diessen, [1946].
6. Mesillat Yesharim. Munich, 1947.
Varying size and condition.