Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $250
Sold for: $600
Including buyer's premium
Nine letters in English, with signatures of past and present politicians and prime ministers. Sent to the United States, 1980s-90s. English.
*Ariel Sharon, two letters (Minister of National Infrastructure). * Yitzchak Rabin (Minister of Defense).* Binyamin Netanyahu (Ambassador to the UN). * Shimon Peres (Deputy Prime Minimster and Foreign Affairs Minister) - long letter. * Aba Eben, three letters (Chairman of Foreign Affairs and Security Committee). * Ehud Olmert (Knesset Member). Various sizes and conditions.
*Ariel Sharon, two letters (Minister of National Infrastructure). * Yitzchak Rabin (Minister of Defense).* Binyamin Netanyahu (Ambassador to the UN). * Shimon Peres (Deputy Prime Minimster and Foreign Affairs Minister) - long letter. * Aba Eben, three letters (Chairman of Foreign Affairs and Security Committee). * Ehud Olmert (Knesset Member). Various sizes and conditions.
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![Lewinsky square [new central bus station in Tel Aviv] - Guestbook. 1970s-80s. Autographs and dedications, most of them for th](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale18-public/350.jpg "Lewinsky Square / New Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv - Guestbook")
Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $120
Sold for: $175
Including buyer's premium
Lewinsky square [new central bus station in Tel Aviv] - Guestbook. 1970s-80s. Autographs and dedications, most of them for the contractor Areyh Pilz, the initiator of the idea of constructing a new central bus station. Construction lasted for twenty years. The station underwent different stages until it reached its current poor condition. Amongst the signatories: Yitzchak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Rehavam Ze'evi, Shlomo Lahat (Tchitch) and many leading figures from the military and the industrial sectors. [29] leaves with tens of signatures and dedications, 29.5 cm. Good condition. Several leaves are partly detached.
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![[Old and New Testament]. Beirut, Lebanon, 1966. Arabic.
Preceding the title page appears a handwritten dedication in honor of](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale18-public/351.jpg "Major General Aharon Yariv - Dedication to Muhamad Abd-el-Ghani el-Gam")
Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $500
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[Old and New Testament]. Beirut, Lebanon, 1966. Arabic.
Preceding the title page appears a handwritten dedication in honor of Muhamad Abd-el-Ghani el-Gamasi, with a verse from the book of Isaiah:"They will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation nor train for war anymore". Under this quotation appears Aharon Yariv's handwritten autograph, in Arabic. Muhamad Abd-el-Ghani el-Gamasi, of the senior Egyptian commanders during the Yom Kippur war, who headed the Egyptian negotiations team to arrive at an agreement of disengagement between Israel and Egypt following the war. Attached is a handwritten letter (in English) from Yariv to Gamasi. Good condition. Binding loose and slightly damaged.
Preceding the title page appears a handwritten dedication in honor of Muhamad Abd-el-Ghani el-Gamasi, with a verse from the book of Isaiah:"They will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation nor train for war anymore". Under this quotation appears Aharon Yariv's handwritten autograph, in Arabic. Muhamad Abd-el-Ghani el-Gamasi, of the senior Egyptian commanders during the Yom Kippur war, who headed the Egyptian negotiations team to arrive at an agreement of disengagement between Israel and Egypt following the war. Attached is a handwritten letter (in English) from Yariv to Gamasi. Good condition. Binding loose and slightly damaged.
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Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $180
Sold for: $238
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Leibowitz, Prof. Yeshayahu (1903-1994). Three handwritten letters, addressed to the Culture Department of the Executive Committee, HaPo'el HaMizrachi organization in Tel Aviv. Jerusalem, 1937-1938; one letter not dated.
Leibowitz writes in one of the letters that he undertakes to deliver speeches in the Tel Aviv branch but he criticizes the list of subjects sent to him and suggests alternative subjects; in one letter he writes: "I shall of course not refuse in future to lecture, since spoken words are different from written ones. I am always ready to discuss and debate with people with whom I absolutely disagree, because the verbal debate does not oblige me and does not include me in their frameworkג€¦". [3] leaves written on both sides, 26 cm. Good condition. Tears with text omission at upper left corner. Folding-marks, filing holes.
Leibowitz writes in one of the letters that he undertakes to deliver speeches in the Tel Aviv branch but he criticizes the list of subjects sent to him and suggests alternative subjects; in one letter he writes: "I shall of course not refuse in future to lecture, since spoken words are different from written ones. I am always ready to discuss and debate with people with whom I absolutely disagree, because the verbal debate does not oblige me and does not include me in their frameworkג€¦". [3] leaves written on both sides, 26 cm. Good condition. Tears with text omission at upper left corner. Folding-marks, filing holes.
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![Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, letter to C. Glick, in regard to drafting yeshiva students to the army. [Jerusalem], 1975.
"B](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale18-public/353.jpg "Yeshayahu Leibowitz - Letter in Regard to Draft of Yeshiva Students")
Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $120
Sold for: $150
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Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, letter to C. Glick, in regard to drafting yeshiva students to the army. [Jerusalem], 1975.
"Ben Gurion, Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres wholeheartedly agreed to excuse yeshiva studentsג€¦ because they understood that this arrangement causes desecration of G-d's name, disgrace to the Torah and destroys religionג€¦ and for this they are assisted by rabbisג€¦". Leaf 12.5 cm. Good condition, creases and folding marks. Tear to upper right corner.
"Ben Gurion, Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres wholeheartedly agreed to excuse yeshiva studentsג€¦ because they understood that this arrangement causes desecration of G-d's name, disgrace to the Torah and destroys religionג€¦ and for this they are assisted by rabbisג€¦". Leaf 12.5 cm. Good condition, creases and folding marks. Tear to upper right corner.
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Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $180
Sold for: $325
Including buyer's premium
Abba Hillel Silver, printed letter signed by hand, addressed to Miss Fanny Holtzmann. December 2, 1947. English
Letter of thanks for her efforts to raise support amongst the nations for the historical vote in the UN. [1] typewritten leaf. Very good condition. Minor stains.
Letter of thanks for her efforts to raise support amongst the nations for the historical vote in the UN. [1] typewritten leaf. Very good condition. Minor stains.
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Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $750
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow. 28th President of the United States, letter to Herman Bernstein. Washington, October 1914.
Bernstein (1876-1935), Jewish-American journalist, writer and diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Albania and a renowned fighter against anti-Semitism. The letter includes greetings on the occasion of the establishment of a Jewish newspaper, The Day, established and edited by Bernstein. Typewritten on official White House stationery, with a handwritten signature by Wilson. 22.5 cm. Good condition, stains and folding-marks.
Bernstein (1876-1935), Jewish-American journalist, writer and diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Albania and a renowned fighter against anti-Semitism. The letter includes greetings on the occasion of the establishment of a Jewish newspaper, The Day, established and edited by Bernstein. Typewritten on official White House stationery, with a handwritten signature by Wilson. 22.5 cm. Good condition, stains and folding-marks.
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Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $200
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Tzvi Hirsch Masliansky (1856-1943), Zionist activist and "National Preacher" in America. The letter is a response to Mr. Y. C. Cohen Lask of London, who asked him to appoint "agents" for "The Jew" journal (edited by Yitzchak Sovlasky) in America. Masliansky expresses his despair of the state of the Hebrew language in America: "Your request has caused me a painful laughג€¦ how strange and wondrous this idea is to a man who knows about Jewish life in America and especially their attitude to the language of the past, this is a sign that you do not know anything about the fall of our language in the Land of Columbusג€¦ Can you believe that 1000 copies of HaYitzhari books are rolling around the roof of my home and nobody is interested in taking them for freeג€¦". Additional issues. Official stationery. Leaf 27 cm, written on both sides. Good condition, few stains, wear to margins and folding marks.
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Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $120
Unsold
Fifteen photographs of American senators, with handwritten dedications for Rabbi Chaim Lifshitz. Menachem Begin's autograph appears on one of the photographs. Size varies, good condition.
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![Mapu, Abraham. Handwritten letter. Kaunas, [ mid 19th century].
The letter was sent to Rabbi HaEfrati, describing the visit o](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale18-public/358.jpg "Abraham Mapu - Handwritten Letter")
Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $200
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Mapu, Abraham. Handwritten letter. Kaunas, [ mid 19th century].
The letter was sent to Rabbi HaEfrati, describing the visit of "the Minister for the People's Education" and other government officials to the Jewish School for Boys in Kaunas, where Mapu served as a teacher. Mapu tells about the appreciation he received from the officials and from the governor of Kaunas, who invited him to his home. Mapu tells about those visits and about their conversations. Mapu (1808-1867), one of the Enlightenment writers in Lithuania, author of "Ahavat Zion" - first novel in Hebrew. 21 cm. Good-fair condition. Moisture-marks, folding-marks, minor tears.
The letter was sent to Rabbi HaEfrati, describing the visit of "the Minister for the People's Education" and other government officials to the Jewish School for Boys in Kaunas, where Mapu served as a teacher. Mapu tells about the appreciation he received from the officials and from the governor of Kaunas, who invited him to his home. Mapu tells about those visits and about their conversations. Mapu (1808-1867), one of the Enlightenment writers in Lithuania, author of "Ahavat Zion" - first novel in Hebrew. 21 cm. Good-fair condition. Moisture-marks, folding-marks, minor tears.
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Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $500
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Aleichem, Sholem (Shalom Rabinovich). Handwritten letter, addressed to Dr. Jacob Itzhak Niemirower in Iaֵi, Romania. Lvov (Lemberg), April 1906. Yiddish.
Letter on a postcard with Sholem Aleichem's portrait and copy of his signature, printed by J. Hammermann. The entire letter is handwritten by Sholem Aleichem, with his typical signature and the writer's ink stamp from his residence in Lemberg. The addressee, Dr. Jacob Itzhak Niemirower -Jewish-Romanian theologist, philosopher and historian native of Galicia, served as the first chief rabbi of Romanian Jewry, member of the Romanian Senate until his last day and leader of Romanian Jewry for many years. Postcard 14x9 cm. Good condition, several stains.
Letter on a postcard with Sholem Aleichem's portrait and copy of his signature, printed by J. Hammermann. The entire letter is handwritten by Sholem Aleichem, with his typical signature and the writer's ink stamp from his residence in Lemberg. The addressee, Dr. Jacob Itzhak Niemirower -Jewish-Romanian theologist, philosopher and historian native of Galicia, served as the first chief rabbi of Romanian Jewry, member of the Romanian Senate until his last day and leader of Romanian Jewry for many years. Postcard 14x9 cm. Good condition, several stains.
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Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
December 7, 2011
Opening: $150
Sold for: $188
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Joseph Tunkel (1881-1949), official postcard, with a long letter in his handwriting, 1911. Yiddish.
The Jewish humorist and satirist Joseph Tunkel was known by his literary name "Der Tunkeler". He writes his biography on this postcard; from the day he was born in Babruysk in 1881, the move to Vilnius when he was 15, through publications in the paper "Der Yid" in 1901, and so on, until 1911. Postcard 14x9.5 cm. Good condition. Postal stamp missing.
The Jewish humorist and satirist Joseph Tunkel was known by his literary name "Der Tunkeler". He writes his biography on this postcard; from the day he was born in Babruysk in 1881, the move to Vilnius when he was 15, through publications in the paper "Der Yid" in 1901, and so on, until 1911. Postcard 14x9.5 cm. Good condition. Postal stamp missing.
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