• Handwritten booklet, Azharot for the Laws of Shechita, a didactic halachic poem by Rabbi Masud ben Shabbat, apparently in his handwriting. At the end of the booklet is his stamp "Masud ebn Yitzchak Shabbat from the city of Sus" – Rabbi Masud ben Shabbat was a Torah scholar in Casablanca and in Tardane.
• Manuscript, thoughts and homiletics on the Torah weekly portions and for other occasions [some were compiled from various books], by Rabbi Shlomo Asaraf. Ouled Berhil (Morocco), [c. 1828]. Includes lists of deaths from a later time.
• Manuscript, Chana and her Seven Sons [in Jewish-Arabic]; lamentations for Tisha B'Av and for mourning the dead [some in Jewish-Arabic], [North Africa; Morocco?].
Varied size and condition.

Five handwritten ketubot from South Morocco from 1825, 1837, 1901, 1922 and 1940.
Three of the Ketubot are from the city of “Sijilmasa which is situated on the Ziz River”. [Sijilmasa is the ancient Arabic name of the city of Tafilalt which is situated on the Ziz River in South Morocco where members of the Abuchatzira family served in the rabbinate]. Two other ketubot from the same region.
Five ketubot, varied size and condition, the two ancient ketubot are damaged and lacking.

Kedushat Levi on the Torah, by Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdychiv. Warsaw, 1876. Bound with Sefer HaChinuch. Warsaw, 1879.
On the page before the title page is a self-dedication written in the Lodz Ghetto under the Nazi occupation: "G-d has given me the privilege to own this book Kedushat Levi and Sefer HaChinuch, today Wednesday, Shelach, the 24 th of Sivan 1941 during the war, Ya'akov Yitzchak ben Rabbi Binyamin of Radoszyce here in Lodz, Ya'akova 6". The writer is Rabbi Ya'akov Yitzchak son of Rebbe Binyamin of Radoszyce (Encyclopedia L'Chassidut Vol 1, p. 350), descendant of the Saba HaKadosh of Radoszyce. Born in Lodz where his father served as Rebbe and later established a glorious Chassidic court in Radoszyce where he became famous as an ascetic tzaddik. Rebbe Binyamin perished in the Holocaust together with his holy sons (among them is Rabbi Ya'akov Yitzchak who signed this book).
222; 65; 240 pages. 22 cm. Fair condition. Stains, wear and tear. Original damaged binding.

Collection of letters sent to Rabbi Shimon Efrati.
• Three letters by Rabbi Shlomo David Cahana [a Warsaw rabbi who was active in releasing agunot whose husbands disappeared during the Holocaust] – two of the letters deal with releasing agunot. • Letters of approbation to his book Me'Emek HaBacha, by Rabbi Ya'akov Moshe Charlap and Rabbi Benzion Meir Chai Uziel. • Two letters of thanks on receiving books from Rabbi Zvi Ya'akov HaCohen Kook and from Rabbi Uziel. • Two letters by Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Herzog. • Letter from the Minister of Defence Moshe Dayan.
Rabbi Shimon Efrati (1908-1988), rabbi in Galicia. Son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Wertheim. After the Holocaust, he served as Rabbi of She'erit Hapleita in the city of Warsaw. He was very active in assisting Holocaust survivors and among his other activities, he also dealt with releasing agunot. He collected the halachic questions that arose during that time into two books, M'Gai HaHarega and Emek HaBacha. After he immigrated to Eretz Israel, he was appointed Manager of the National Kashrut Department of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.
10 letters. Varied size and condition.

The Jews and the Mosaic Law by Issac Leeser, Philadelphia, 1834. English.
Part 1: A defence of the revelation of the Pentateuch, and of the Jews for their adherence to the same.
Part 2: Four essays on the relative importance of Judaism and Christianity, by a native of Germany and professor of Christianity.
The first original work by Isaac Leeser (1807-1868). Leeser was a US Jewish leader and one of the first people who built American Judaism, a philosopher, literary editor who also translated Jewish books into English and wrote many sermons and lectures.
These books are the outcome of a series of articles that Leeser published in American periodicals in 1829, which dealt with defending the Jewish religion following a rise in missionary activities in the US. Subsequent to these articles, Leeser was invited to serve as a preacher and community leader of the Mikve Yisrael congregation in Philadelphia, which reinforced his status as one of the most significant figures on the US Jewish scene in the 19th century.
Two parts in one volume. VIII, [2], 278 pages [the two pages after the introduction (Contents and Advertisement) are not mentioned by Singerman, see ibid no. 578], 22 cm. Good condition. Several loose leaves and few stains. Stamp and ex-libris. Non-original binding, worn and slightly damaged. Few ink inscriptions.