A large class photograph of the "Great and Holy Telz Yeshiva" from 1932.
At center, the Head of the Yeshiva at that time, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch (1890-1941, perished in the Holocaust; appointed Head of Yeshiva after the death of his father Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch in Cheshvan 1930), and his brother Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch (1895-1955, Head of Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio, US). Most of the rabbis and students photographed were cruelly murdered after the German occupation of Lithuania.
37x27 cm. Placed in frame 51x42 cm. Fair condition, stains and tears. Not examined out of the frame.

Album with a large varied photograph collection:
Photographs from Agudat Yisrael conventions of 1963-1964, including many photographs of Mo'etzet Gedolei HaTorah and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein during the Fifth Great Assembly which took place in Jerusalem during the summer of 1964. Photographs of Rabbi Ya'akov Kaminetsky and the Rebbe of Ozharov in the convention of the Va'ad HaPoel of Agudat Yisrael in Tamuz 1963.
Photographs of the Chief Rabbis and conventions of the Chief Rabbinate; from the Chamber of the Holocaust on Mount Zion; of the convention of the Va'ad HaPoel Shel HaMizrachi in 1966; photographs of giving out various prizes (by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, and Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli etc.); of protest assemblies of the Eda HaCharedit and Niturei Karta; of the dedication of yeshiva buildings; of laying the cornerstone of the Belz Chassidic institutions; of a Hachnasat Sefer Torah; of family occasions of Rabbis and Chassidic Rebbes, etc.
More than 280 photographs, average size: 2-6 cm. Varied condition. Placed in a stamp album.
Some pictures are well-known, but some are not known at all.

Photograph album depicting activity of “Torah Chever HaPe’ilim” – “HaPe’ilim”. Eretz Yisrael, [1950s].
The struggle regarding education of immigrant children during first years of establishment of the State resulted in the foundation of “Torah Chever HaPe’ilim”. Its members, named “HaPe’ilim” dealt with the rescuing of immigrant children from compulsory secular education in the Kibbutzim, transit camps and absorption centers for new immigrants. The “Pe’ilim”, usually young Yeshiva students, appeared at the immigrant centers, persuaded the parents and registered their children at educational institutes which they established for this purpose throughout the country. Their activity was fiercely opposed by the establishment, and their disputes frequently erupted into violent arguments, which also included secret operations for the smuggling of children from transit camps and active protest demonstrations.
This album, prepared in honor of Rabbi Asher Feuchtwanger – among rabbis of England and supporter of the “Pe’ilim”, contains an interesting documentation of activists disguised as secular men on their way “to fish out religious children captured by the net of the Kibbutzim”; photographs of youngsters who were “rescued” with captions such as “Amram Toledano – rescued from Kibbutz Ruchama of HaShomer HaTza’ir”. In addition, the album contains photographs of the educational institutes of the “Pe’ilim”: “Yeshivat Be’er Sheva”, “Yeshivat Acre”, and preparatory programs for “survivors of heresy, for a life of Torah and reverence of G-d” in transit camp of Rosh Ha’ayin and in a Tel Aviv neighborhood.
Total of 35 photographs of various sizes. Faux leather Bezalel-style binding; copper plate with embossment of David’s Citadel on cover.

“Gathering of Chassidim of Breslov in city of Uman at gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov on Erev Rosh HaShanah” – Lithographic printing of photograph of Chassidim in cemetery, with city of Uman and Beit Midrash of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in background.
35x40 cm. Good-fair condition, folding marks.

Shir HaShirim with translation of Yonatan Ben Uziel and “commentary in language of Yishma’el”. Calcutta (India), [1841]. Lithograph.
Hebrew source followed by Aramaic translation and Jewish-Arabic commentary, verse following verse. On last leaves, Arabic translation of poem “Mi Kamocha Ve’Ein Kamocha” by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, and “song for Purim”. This is the first book printed in lithograph in Calcutta [see A. Ya’ari, Hebrew Press in Oriental Countries, Jerusalem 1940, pp. 17-18].
Stamps Rabbi “Menashe Yechezkel Avraham Matzliach”.
[1], 70, [8] pages. 18 cm. Good condition, stains.