Three amulets for protecting a woman giving birth and her baby. [Europe, 18th century?].
Popular amulets in Ashkenazi writing. All start with Psalm 121 "Shir LaMa'alot I lift my eyes to the mountains…", followed by verses and incantations and names of angels. Kabbalistic illustration on two of the amulets.
Size: approx. 18 cm. Condition varies.

Lithographic leaf of illustrated safeguards to hang on wall on home. Budapest, Igentach Schwartz Printing Press, [c. 1900].
Approx. 20 cm. Fair condition, stains and wear, damage on borders of glued cardboard. Metal ring for hanging.
Bibliographically unknown.

Writing on behalf of fund of Rabbi Meir Ba’al HaNess in Tiberias, to rabbinical emissary Rabbi Binyamin Nechmad who traveled to cities of Baghdad, Arabistan, Kurdistan, Calcutta and Bombay and to all cities of India as well as to Persia and large city of Bukhara. Tiberias, [1865].
30 signatures of rabbis of Tiberias, with looped signatures in Oriental calligraphy. Signed by: “Senior” rabbi, Rabbi Chaim Shmuel HaKohen (Konverti); Rabbi Ya’akov Abulafia, Rabbi Shimon Abadi; Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Abulafia; Rabbi Mordechai Karasanti; Rabbi Menasheh Arzi HaKohen; Rabbi Yedidya HaKohen; Rabbi Chaim Asmaga; Rabbi David Esudri; Rabbi David Netanel Rofeh; Rabbi Avraham Alchadif; Rabbi Baruch Toledano; and many others.
49X64 cm. Fine ornamented Oriental writing upon parchment. Good-fair condition, creases on parchment.

Bruchim Atem LaHashem – Certificate signed by Rabbi Chaim Shmuel HaCohen “emissary of holy city of Tiberias” to members of congregation of Sabbioneta (Italy), upon establishment of “holy charity fund, for exalted purpose, the holy Tana Rabbi Meir Ba’al HaNes, to pass around in synagogue on each day on which the Torah is read”. Sabbioneta, (1844).
Rabbi Chaim Shmuel HaCohen Konverti – Senior Rabbi (1810-1873), native of Italy; in 1927 immigrated to holy city of Tiberias and was among its greatest scholars. Following the destruction of the Galilee in the 1837 earthquake, he was sent as a rabbinical emissary to cities in Turkey and Italy in order to raise money for “Rabbi Meir Ba’al HaNes” fund in Tiberias. On these journeys his reputation as a Torah scholar became known to scholars of the Diaspora who cite sayings from him in many of their books. Upon the return of Rabbi Chaim Shmuel HaCohen Konverti to Tiberias in 1845, he was appointed as rabbi of the city in place of the Ga’on Rabbi Chaim Nissim Abulafia who relocated to Jerusalem. He occupied this honorable position for over thirty years in which he made great efforts for the preservation of Halachah and strengthening of the economic state of the city residents.
Leaf 23 cm. . Fair condition. Minor damage and stains.

Shir HaShirim and Megillat Ruth – micrography. [Early 20th century].
Miniscule handwriting upon postcard. Includes entire text of Megillat Shir HaShirim and majority of Megillat Ruth. Reverse side of postcard contains signatures of artist: “Made by – Sakalvitch, Hardzei—“.
15X10.5 cm. Good condition, two ink stains upon text. Creases.