Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $150
Sold for: $188
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Yeshayaut (addition to "Qeraon"), with Bible chapters ,Hebrew in Latin letters. By Itamar Ben Avi, Netanya, 1939.
An appeal to adopt "Isaianism" - a religious revival in the spirit of prophet Isaia ben Amotz. Dedication (and correction of printing date) handwritten by the author. 11, [1]; 20 pp. Printed cover. 18 cm. Good condition, stains and tears. Front cover and first leaf are detached.
An appeal to adopt "Isaianism" - a religious revival in the spirit of prophet Isaia ben Amotz. Dedication (and correction of printing date) handwritten by the author. 11, [1]; 20 pp. Printed cover. 18 cm. Good condition, stains and tears. Front cover and first leaf are detached.
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $2,500
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Seventeen letters and autographs: postcard and photograph signed by Hermann Hesse; photograph and letter signed by Erich Kestner; letter signed by William Somerset Maugham; letter handwritten by Arnold Zweig; photograph signed by Thomas Mann; letter written by the German poet and playwright, winner of Nobel prize in literature, Nelly Sachs; letter written by the author, playwright and translator Lion Feuchtwanger; booklet with a dedication by Bertolt Brecht; letter written by the Austrian author Friedrich Torberg; letter written by Arthur Kestler; signed letter from Pearl Buck, an American author, winner of Nobel prize in literature and the first woman who won the Pulitzer Prize; handwritten and hand-signed letter written by Max Brod; signed note by Martin Buber; handwritten letter written by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell; signed letter written by Simon Wiesenthal; letter written by the German actor Heinz Rֳ¼hmann; letter written by the author Hand Habe.
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Sizes and conditions vary.
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $1,875
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Twenty Three letters and autographs: letter handwritten and hand-signed by Winston Churchill, note signed by Charles De Gaul; letter and photograph signed by Henri Kissinger; note signed by Marshal Tito; an official letter of acknowledgment from the secretary of the Duke of Edinborough, letter signed by French Prime Minister Guy Mollet; Letter from Germany's president Theodor Heuss; two letters signed by Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of Federal Germany; signed photographs of the Iranian princess Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiar; signed photograph of the German politician Willy Brandt; signed letter from French Prime Minister Pierre Mendֳ¨s France; signed photograph of Princess grace of Monaco (Grace Kelly); letter handwritten by Ralph Bunche, and American diplomat and politician, winner of the Peace Noble Prize; letter hand-signed by Lester Pearson, politician, Historian and Canadian diplomat, winner of the peace Noble Prize; card signed by American President Lyndon Johnson; letter and signed photograph of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. Attached are 11 additional letters from embassies and ministries worldwide (not carefully checked). Lot of 34 autographs. Sizes and conditions vary.
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $300
Sold for: $425
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1-2. Two letters handwritten and hand-signed by David Ben-Gurion. In a letter of March 1973 Ben-Gurion thanks Nora Hauben for sending him her book.
3. Letter typewritten on official stationery, signed by Ben-Gurion, June 1973. Ben-Gurion approves Nora Hauben's request to publish his letter to her.
4-7. Four photographs of Ben-Gurion. Most probably taken during a meeting between ben-Gurion and Hauben.
Various sizes and conditions.
3. Letter typewritten on official stationery, signed by Ben-Gurion, June 1973. Ben-Gurion approves Nora Hauben's request to publish his letter to her.
4-7. Four photographs of Ben-Gurion. Most probably taken during a meeting between ben-Gurion and Hauben.
Various sizes and conditions.
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,188
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Albert Einstein, note with his signature. Princeton, USA, 1954.
Typewritten note, in which Einstein thanks for the greetings sent to him on his birthday. Hand-signed: "A. Einstein 54". Attached are the envelope in which the note was sent and an Israeli "First-Day Envelope" of 1956. 8X12.5 cm. Very good condition.
Typewritten note, in which Einstein thanks for the greetings sent to him on his birthday. Hand-signed: "A. Einstein 54". Attached are the envelope in which the note was sent and an Israeli "First-Day Envelope" of 1956. 8X12.5 cm. Very good condition.
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $250
Sold for: $450
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Four letters and autographs: two cards signed by the artist Marc Chagall; letter by the painter Mane Katz, with a small illustration; a letter handwritten by the Austrian author and painter Oscar Kokoshka. Size and condition varies.
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $250
Sold for: $313
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A dozen letters and autographs: signed photograph and letter from the theatre actress Hanna Maron; note with a dedication by Nahum Goldman, one of the founders of the World Jewish Congress and its president for many years; note handwritten by Abba Eban; letter and postcard signed by the journalist, author and poet Shalom Ben Horim; note with a dedication written by Ephraim Kishon; letter written by the industrialist and winner of the Prize of Israel Reuven Hecht; calling card with a dedication by Yitzchak Ben-Zvi; letter signed by Zalman Shazar; signed photograph of Menachem Begin; note signed by Levi Eshkol; letter signed by the attorney and politician Gideon Hausner. Sizes and conditions vary.
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $250
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Nine letters and autographs: letter signed by Hubert Humphrey, 38th American Vice President; photograph and card signed by Eleanor Roosevelt; letter signed by Robert B. Meyner, American politician, the 44th governor of New Jersey; letter signed by Eduard Nixon, an American entrepreneur, brother of Richard Nixon; letter signed by the American politician George McGovern; card and photograph signed by Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of John Kennedy, President of the United States; card signed by Henry Ford II, grandson of the industrialist Henri Ford; photograph signed by the American Senator Henry Jackson.
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Sizes and conditions vary.
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,063
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Photographs signed by Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. and Neil Armstrong, two of the three astronauts on the "Apollo 11" American spaceship that landed on the moon; a letter and a photograph signed by John Glenn, an American pilot, astronaut and politician; the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the earth; a booklet "John H. Glenn Orbits the Earth for America, February 20, 1962". Lot of 5 items. Size and condition varies.
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $800
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Eight autographs: a photograph signed by the conductor Arturo Toscanini; two photographs with dedications by the violinist, violinist and Jewish conductor Yehudi Menuhin; a photograph signed by the American conductor, composer and pianist Leonard Bernstein; a calling card with a dedication by the Catalan cellist, conductor and composer Pablo Casals; a postcard signed by the Italian tenor singer Beniamino Gigli; a program signed by the conductor and composer Robert Stolz; a program with a dedication and signature by the Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. Sizes and conditions vary.
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
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Five autographs: member-card signed by Helen Keller, an American author and social activist; postcard from Albert Schweitzer, a German-French theologist, musician, philosopher and doctor, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1952; letter signed by Christiaan Neethling Barnard, a South African heart surgeon who performed the world's first heart transplant; a signed letter from Jonas Edward Salk, a Jewish-American doctor and virologist, who invented the polio vaccine; a card signed by Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist of Jewish origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics. Sizes and conditions vary.
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Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 22, 2012
Opening: $600
Unsold
Phostcard with a photograph of Villa Strauss in Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Bavaria. Sent by mail from Garmisch to Mannheim in 1909.
On the front appears a handwritten signature of the German composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949). 14X9 cm. Good condition. Missing corner, minor damages.
On the front appears a handwritten signature of the German composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949). 14X9 cm. Good condition. Missing corner, minor damages.
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