Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
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~7 Handwritten letters and notes, concerning left-wing activity and the periodical "Ner", which criticized the attitude of the State to the Arab problem. Amongst them: an article on 7 leaves concerning "diplomatic compensations" to Arab refugees, a printed card, "proposal for a final solution of the Arab refugees problem" 1951 and letters to Dr. S.Z. Yoveli.
~6 Handwritten letters and notes, amongst them an article in memory of Rabbi Aharon Zeev Eshkoli.
~4 Newspaper cuttings with articles about Rabbi Binyamin and his achievements. Lot of 17 documents, sizes and conditions vary.
~6 Handwritten letters and notes, amongst them an article in memory of Rabbi Aharon Zeev Eshkoli.
~4 Newspaper cuttings with articles about Rabbi Binyamin and his achievements. Lot of 17 documents, sizes and conditions vary.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
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Personal document collection of the translator and poet, Eliyahu Meytus (1893-1982). Meytus was born in Kishinev, learned at a “Heder” and studied with private tutors. He graduated from high school in Odessa, continued his education at the Sorbonne University in Paris and at the St. Petersburg University. Meytus directed the Hebrew high school (Ha-Gimnasia Ha-Ivrit) of Soroki (Serbia) since 1920 and taught at the teachers’seminar in Biasi, Romania. He moved to Eretz Israel in 1935 where he taught in high schools. Wrote poems and translated literary, mainly from Yiddish, French and Russian.
The collection includes: a handwritten list by Meytus, “My Chronicles”; a high school graduation diploma from Odessa, 1910; a handwritten Ketuba celebrating Meytus’s union with his wife, Lea, (Ungheni, Moldova), 1921; a student certificate from the St. Petersburg University, 1917; 5 documents relating to his educational endeavors in Romania; a photograph of the Meytus family; a tree donation JNF certificate; a photograph from the Eschweg D.P camp.
12 items total, varying sizes and condition.
The collection includes: a handwritten list by Meytus, “My Chronicles”; a high school graduation diploma from Odessa, 1910; a handwritten Ketuba celebrating Meytus’s union with his wife, Lea, (Ungheni, Moldova), 1921; a student certificate from the St. Petersburg University, 1917; 5 documents relating to his educational endeavors in Romania; a photograph of the Meytus family; a tree donation JNF certificate; a photograph from the Eschweg D.P camp.
12 items total, varying sizes and condition.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
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Four items handwritten by the poet, playwright, author and translator Ya'akov Cohen (1881-1960), two-time recipient of the Israel Prize for Literature:
1. Manuscript of the poem "Hillel VeShamai".
2-3. Two official Stiebel Publishing House, Warsaw, postcards, sent to the poet Ephraim A. Lissitzky in the US, concerning his translations of poems by Tennyson and Shakespeare. [1922].
4. Letter on Stiebel stationery addressed to Mr. A.L. Ya'akobovitch, concerning the publication of an essay by Dr. [Ya'akov Naftali Hertz] Simchoni, [1922].
5. "The judges committee of the Israel Prize for Literature", document on official State of Israel stationery announcing the decision to nominate Ya'akov Cohen and Haim Hazaz as winners of the prize. Signed by Prof. Shimon Helkin, Yitzchak Lamdan and Yitzchak Shenhar, [1953].
1. Manuscript of the poem "Hillel VeShamai".
2-3. Two official Stiebel Publishing House, Warsaw, postcards, sent to the poet Ephraim A. Lissitzky in the US, concerning his translations of poems by Tennyson and Shakespeare. [1922].
4. Letter on Stiebel stationery addressed to Mr. A.L. Ya'akobovitch, concerning the publication of an essay by Dr. [Ya'akov Naftali Hertz] Simchoni, [1922].
5. "The judges committee of the Israel Prize for Literature", document on official State of Israel stationery announcing the decision to nominate Ya'akov Cohen and Haim Hazaz as winners of the prize. Signed by Prof. Shimon Helkin, Yitzchak Lamdan and Yitzchak Shenhar, [1953].
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,063
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Collection of letters and postcards handwritten by the historian and literature researcher Prof. Joseph Klausner (1874-1958). Klausner edited the journal "HaShelach" during the years 1903-1927 and some of the letters included in the lot are written on stationery or official postcards of the journal, concerning various literary matters.
The collection includes 10 letters, 3 postcards and an essay, all handwritten by Klausner, amongst them a letter to David Frieshman, Heidelberg, 1901 about publication of essays in the periodical "HaDor" edited by Frieshman. The letter also praises and criticizes the periodical. Three postcards dated 1912-1913 are to the writer Mordechai Ben-Ami. In one of the postcards Klausner describes his excitement about his forthcoming visit to Eretz Israel. Other items include letters to Dr. Ya'akov Nacht, to the poet Ephraim A. Lissitzky, Israel Meir Lask (about translations into English), Yitzchak Lamdan, editor of "Gilyonot", and more. Also included are a letter to Dr. Haim Bugrashov, about transferring the "HaShelach" editorial team to Eretz Israel, and about work in the "Hebrew Gymnasium" [Herzlia], and a
handwritten 6-age essay, with many corrections, concerning the "religious crisis in the State of Israel" as a reaction to Dr. Yesha'ayahu Leibovitz's book, "Torah U-Mitzvah Bazman HaZeh".
Lot of 14 items, sizes and conditions vary.
The collection includes 10 letters, 3 postcards and an essay, all handwritten by Klausner, amongst them a letter to David Frieshman, Heidelberg, 1901 about publication of essays in the periodical "HaDor" edited by Frieshman. The letter also praises and criticizes the periodical. Three postcards dated 1912-1913 are to the writer Mordechai Ben-Ami. In one of the postcards Klausner describes his excitement about his forthcoming visit to Eretz Israel. Other items include letters to Dr. Ya'akov Nacht, to the poet Ephraim A. Lissitzky, Israel Meir Lask (about translations into English), Yitzchak Lamdan, editor of "Gilyonot", and more. Also included are a letter to Dr. Haim Bugrashov, about transferring the "HaShelach" editorial team to Eretz Israel, and about work in the "Hebrew Gymnasium" [Herzlia], and a
handwritten 6-age essay, with many corrections, concerning the "religious crisis in the State of Israel" as a reaction to Dr. Yesha'ayahu Leibovitz's book, "Torah U-Mitzvah Bazman HaZeh".
Lot of 14 items, sizes and conditions vary.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
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Collection of manuscripts and articles handwritten by Israel Kloisner: "From the Balfour Declaration to the Mandate", "The Crimea Plan and the Jewish Agency" (a translation by him from Yiddish was sent to Reuven Nochimovsky, with a letter about payment), a manuscript in Yiddish, and more.
Kloisner (1905-1977), writer and literature researcher. Made Aliya to Eretz Israel from Lithuania in 1936 and started working in the Zionist Archive. He later became deputy director. Published many research books, biographies and history books about Zionism, Judaism, the Holocaust, and more. Attached: 19 documents, including: letters sent by Attorney Reuven Nochimovsky to various position-holders in the Jewish Agency (Zalman Shazar, Nahum Goldman, Eliyahu Dobkin, Berl Locker) concerning the publication of a book about the history of the Jewish Agency, other documents. Total of 240 written leaves. Sizes and conditions vary.
Kloisner (1905-1977), writer and literature researcher. Made Aliya to Eretz Israel from Lithuania in 1936 and started working in the Zionist Archive. He later became deputy director. Published many research books, biographies and history books about Zionism, Judaism, the Holocaust, and more. Attached: 19 documents, including: letters sent by Attorney Reuven Nochimovsky to various position-holders in the Jewish Agency (Zalman Shazar, Nahum Goldman, Eliyahu Dobkin, Berl Locker) concerning the publication of a book about the history of the Jewish Agency, other documents. Total of 240 written leaves. Sizes and conditions vary.
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![Yigal Mossensohn, ALS, addressed to "Irgun HaShomrim BeEretz Israel", [late 1930s].
"On this occasion of need](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale15-public/422.jpg "Yigal Mossensohn – ALS to the HaShomrim Organization")
Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
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Yigal Mossensohn, ALS, addressed to "Irgun HaShomrim BeEretz Israel", [late 1930s].
"On this occasion of need to guard the orange orchards, I would like to join the guards with no delay…" Mossensohn mentions biographical details and lists acquaintances who could give a recommendation.
Yigal Mossensohn (1917-1994), Israeli writer and playwright, joined the Palmah in 1943, was arrested by the British and detained in the Latrun detention camp. Author of the popular "Hasamba" series of childrens' books, the film "Eldorado" and the musical "Kazablan". Leaf, 26cm. Good condition. Filing holes.
"On this occasion of need to guard the orange orchards, I would like to join the guards with no delay…" Mossensohn mentions biographical details and lists acquaintances who could give a recommendation.
Yigal Mossensohn (1917-1994), Israeli writer and playwright, joined the Palmah in 1943, was arrested by the British and detained in the Latrun detention camp. Author of the popular "Hasamba" series of childrens' books, the film "Eldorado" and the musical "Kazablan". Leaf, 26cm. Good condition. Filing holes.
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![1. Notebook handwritten by Robert Welsch. [Prague and Berlin, 1920]. [41] pp. 19 cm. Very good condition.
2. Letter from Mart](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale15-public/423.jpg "Robert Weltsch – Handwritten Notebook / Letter from Martin Buber")
Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $300
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1. Notebook handwritten by Robert Welsch. [Prague and Berlin, 1920]. [41] pp. 19 cm. Very good condition.
2. Letter from Martin Buber, on letter paper of the Der Jude monthly journal (edited by Buber). The letter is typewritten. Buber added another three lines in his handwriting at the bottom of the letter and hand-signed it. 29 cm leaf. Fair-good condition. Folding marks, stains and several holes. Robert Weltsch, (1891-1982) – Journalist, editor and Zionistic activist; edited the Judische Rundschau journal; “Brit Shalom” activist; moved to Israel in 1938 and published numerous articles in the “Ha-Aretz” journal. Famous for his article “Wear the Yellow badge with pride”.
2. Letter from Martin Buber, on letter paper of the Der Jude monthly journal (edited by Buber). The letter is typewritten. Buber added another three lines in his handwriting at the bottom of the letter and hand-signed it. 29 cm leaf. Fair-good condition. Folding marks, stains and several holes. Robert Weltsch, (1891-1982) – Journalist, editor and Zionistic activist; edited the Judische Rundschau journal; “Brit Shalom” activist; moved to Israel in 1938 and published numerous articles in the “Ha-Aretz” journal. Famous for his article “Wear the Yellow badge with pride”.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
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Handwritten letter by Prof. Samuel (Shlomo) Krauss, addressed to Yitzchak Avineri in Tel-Aviv. Vienna, February 1939.
“Lonely and exiled, my heart is broken from all the suffering I have had to endure, right now I am awaiting rescue through emigration…my home has been broken into and my books have been stolen…”. Prof. Shlomo Kraus (1866-1948) – Born in Hungary and deceased in England. Historian and Talmudic researcher, professor at the Jewish Teacher Seminary of Budapest and at the Rabbinical Beit Midrash of Vienna. After his books were stolen, [Kraus] moved to England as a refugee and spent the last years of his life in Cambridge. 29 cm leaf. Good condition. Stains. Tears around the edges.
“Lonely and exiled, my heart is broken from all the suffering I have had to endure, right now I am awaiting rescue through emigration…my home has been broken into and my books have been stolen…”. Prof. Shlomo Kraus (1866-1948) – Born in Hungary and deceased in England. Historian and Talmudic researcher, professor at the Jewish Teacher Seminary of Budapest and at the Rabbinical Beit Midrash of Vienna. After his books were stolen, [Kraus] moved to England as a refugee and spent the last years of his life in Cambridge. 29 cm leaf. Good condition. Stains. Tears around the edges.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
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S.Y. Agnon, three ALSs, addressed to the art publisher Gabriel Talpir. 1936, 1951, 1952/1954. Sizes and conditions vary.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
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Itzik Manger (1901-1969), handwritten letter. London, November 20 1941. Yiddish.
Manger writes in the letter, addressed to a friend who emigrated to the USA: "I am pleased that you live in America and are out of the Romanian hell. The writers of New York are not understood but this does not interest me. I am most worried about my family; who knows if they are alive. The fact that I stopped writing in Yiddish, and the fact that I returned to it, makes me happy. Newspaper owners hate intellectuals as much as a religious person hates pork…" 3pp, 20cm. Good condition, with minor stains, creases and tears at borders.
Manger writes in the letter, addressed to a friend who emigrated to the USA: "I am pleased that you live in America and are out of the Romanian hell. The writers of New York are not understood but this does not interest me. I am most worried about my family; who knows if they are alive. The fact that I stopped writing in Yiddish, and the fact that I returned to it, makes me happy. Newspaper owners hate intellectuals as much as a religious person hates pork…" 3pp, 20cm. Good condition, with minor stains, creases and tears at borders.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
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Uri Zvi Greenberg, handwritten letter addressed to Mrs. Frieda Zerubbabel, 1966. Yiddish.
21.5 cm leaf, good condition, few stains. Original envelope enclosed.
21.5 cm leaf, good condition, few stains. Original envelope enclosed.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $300
Sold for: $488
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David Vogel, handwritten postcard, addressed to his friend Shimon Polak in New York. Paris, 1925.
Vogel writes: "I am already in Paris…for eleven days now. I moved here in order to exchange the Viennese hunger for the Parisian one. I could not travel to Eretz Israel, I had no hope there and not enough money…and I had to leave Vienna…Life here is difficult – and the Jews, the artists, writers, painters and sculptors, are hungry, I mean real hunger to which homelessness is added". Vogel continues and asks his friend to collect for him royalties on the amount of 10 dollars from the "HaDo'ar" publishing house for two poems of his which they published.
Vogel (1891-1944) – resided alternately in Vienna, Paris, Warsaw and other cities. In 1929 he visited Eretz Israel, but did not adapt to life there and a year later he returned to Europe. Lived in conquered France during World War II; in February 1944 was deported to Germany, where he was murdered by the Nazis. Postcard 14X9 cm. Good condition.
Vogel writes: "I am already in Paris…for eleven days now. I moved here in order to exchange the Viennese hunger for the Parisian one. I could not travel to Eretz Israel, I had no hope there and not enough money…and I had to leave Vienna…Life here is difficult – and the Jews, the artists, writers, painters and sculptors, are hungry, I mean real hunger to which homelessness is added". Vogel continues and asks his friend to collect for him royalties on the amount of 10 dollars from the "HaDo'ar" publishing house for two poems of his which they published.
Vogel (1891-1944) – resided alternately in Vienna, Paris, Warsaw and other cities. In 1929 he visited Eretz Israel, but did not adapt to life there and a year later he returned to Europe. Lived in conquered France during World War II; in February 1944 was deported to Germany, where he was murdered by the Nazis. Postcard 14X9 cm. Good condition.
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