Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $300
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Fun Letzten Churban [From the Last Destruction] – periodical of the History of the Jewish People during the Nazi Regime, edited by Israel Kaplan. Munich, 1946-1948. Yiddish and some English.
Ten consecutive booklets with dozens of essays about the Holocaust, photographs, maps, tables with data, and testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Good condition. Creases and stains at margins of some issues. Ink-stamps and inscriptions in pen.
Ten consecutive booklets with dozens of essays about the Holocaust, photographs, maps, tables with data, and testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Good condition. Creases and stains at margins of some issues. Ink-stamps and inscriptions in pen.
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $300
Sold for: $750
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1. Zaml-bukh fun Sherptser sheyres ha-khurbn, 1939-1945. Germany: Sherpcer Jewish Committee, 1948. Commemorative booklet for Jews of Sierpc, with photos and lists of names. 93 pp, 20.5 cm. Good condition. Damages to cover. Inscription on spine.
2. MeHachurban HaAcharon [Hebrew: From the Last Destruction] / Extermination of a People; exhibition catalogue. Published by the Central Historical Committee, Munich, [1948]. Hebrew, Yiddish, German, French and English. "Photographs and documents of the life and death of the Jews under the Nazi regime". 32, 32 pp, 20.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Creases.
2. MeHachurban HaAcharon [Hebrew: From the Last Destruction] / Extermination of a People; exhibition catalogue. Published by the Central Historical Committee, Munich, [1948]. Hebrew, Yiddish, German, French and English. "Photographs and documents of the life and death of the Jews under the Nazi regime". 32, 32 pp, 20.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Creases.
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $250
Sold for: $1,000
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1. From here and there / fun do un dort, Aryeh Navon. Po'alei Zion Party, Munich, 1949. Book of caricatures.
2. Eretz Israel in kampf (di letstegeshenishn in likht fun fakten) [Eretz Israel in struggle, last events based on facts]. Munich: Najwelt, May 14, 1947.
3. Fun shmira tsu hagana, kapitalen fun bukh "Moreshet Gvura". Paris: "Dror – Hechaluz HaTza'ir", 1947.
4. Teg ozelkhe, Melekh Tchemni. Munich, 1948. Dedication handwritten by the author appears on title page. Illustration on the cover: I.D. Sheinson.
5. Gezamelte lider, poesye fun 20-ten yorhundert, editor: Shlomo Frank. "Yidishe Bilder" publishing, [Munich, ca.1948].
6. Exodus 1947, poeme, un andere lider, Yitzchak Perlow. Munich, 1948.
Size and condition vary. Some in fair-poor condition.
2. Eretz Israel in kampf (di letstegeshenishn in likht fun fakten) [Eretz Israel in struggle, last events based on facts]. Munich: Najwelt, May 14, 1947.
3. Fun shmira tsu hagana, kapitalen fun bukh "Moreshet Gvura". Paris: "Dror – Hechaluz HaTza'ir", 1947.
4. Teg ozelkhe, Melekh Tchemni. Munich, 1948. Dedication handwritten by the author appears on title page. Illustration on the cover: I.D. Sheinson.
5. Gezamelte lider, poesye fun 20-ten yorhundert, editor: Shlomo Frank. "Yidishe Bilder" publishing, [Munich, ca.1948].
6. Exodus 1947, poeme, un andere lider, Yitzchak Perlow. Munich, 1948.
Size and condition vary. Some in fair-poor condition.
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
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1. Certificate of a student (copy), Hebrew School in Rosenheim Displaced Persons Camp, January 1948. Principal's and teacher's signatures. [1] leaf 28.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, folding marks and tears.
2. Hebrew Almanac for the year 1947. Published by the JDC, gift for She'erit Hapletah, Germany, 1946. Yiddish, English and Hebrew. 10 cm. Fair condition. Significant wear, creases and tears. Inscriptions in pencil and in pen.
3. Sidur Kol Bo, with Psalms and "Yortsayt calendar for our people's martyrs" and a prayer in memorial of the martyrs of the years 1940-1945, as well as other leaves related to the holocaust. Sinai Publishing House, Munich (approved by UNRRA), 1946. 12 cm. Good condition. Damages to bookmarks.
2. Hebrew Almanac for the year 1947. Published by the JDC, gift for She'erit Hapletah, Germany, 1946. Yiddish, English and Hebrew. 10 cm. Fair condition. Significant wear, creases and tears. Inscriptions in pencil and in pen.
3. Sidur Kol Bo, with Psalms and "Yortsayt calendar for our people's martyrs" and a prayer in memorial of the martyrs of the years 1940-1945, as well as other leaves related to the holocaust. Sinai Publishing House, Munich (approved by UNRRA), 1946. 12 cm. Good condition. Damages to bookmarks.
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $250
Sold for: $625
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Rabbi A. I. Kook, booklet commemorating the 11th memorial day of A. I. Kook. Published by the Culture Department of "Torah VeAvodah" movement in Germany, Munich, 1946. Yiddish and some Hebrew.
Stenciled typewritten text. The booklet opens with the letter which Rabbi Kook sent to "Bnei Akiva". 23 pp, 29.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Creases at corners and some tears at margins. Cover (blank) detached. Library ink-stamp. Several pages are bound upside down.
Not in the NLI. Not listed in the OCLC.
Stenciled typewritten text. The booklet opens with the letter which Rabbi Kook sent to "Bnei Akiva". 23 pp, 29.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Creases at corners and some tears at margins. Cover (blank) detached. Library ink-stamp. Several pages are bound upside down.
Not in the NLI. Not listed in the OCLC.
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $350
Sold for: $438
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Pentateuch - gift of Vaad Hatzala to She'erit Hapletah. Printed by the publishing committee of Vaad Hatzala. Munich, 1947.
Pentateuch and the Books of Ruth, Eicha and Kohelet, with Rashi and Onkelus commentary. A colorful title page in lithographic printing. Preceeding the title page, an ink-stamp: "Gift to Israel Defense Forces". A nice leather binding with gold embossing – title and details of publishers, illustration of Tablets of the Law and name of owner – Rabbi J.L. Fishman / Minister – Rabbi Yehuda Leib Hacohen Fishman Maimon, first Minister of Religions of the State of Israel, of the "Hamizrahi" movement founders, winner of the Prize of Israel for biblical literature. An Ex-Libris from the library of Rabbi Maimon appears on the inner side of front binding. 60, 55, [1], 56-97, 48, [1], 49-97 leaves, 17 cm. Good condition. Slight damages to binding. Ex-library copy.
Pentateuch and the Books of Ruth, Eicha and Kohelet, with Rashi and Onkelus commentary. A colorful title page in lithographic printing. Preceeding the title page, an ink-stamp: "Gift to Israel Defense Forces". A nice leather binding with gold embossing – title and details of publishers, illustration of Tablets of the Law and name of owner – Rabbi J.L. Fishman / Minister – Rabbi Yehuda Leib Hacohen Fishman Maimon, first Minister of Religions of the State of Israel, of the "Hamizrahi" movement founders, winner of the Prize of Israel for biblical literature. An Ex-Libris from the library of Rabbi Maimon appears on the inner side of front binding. 60, 55, [1], 56-97, 48, [1], 49-97 leaves, 17 cm. Good condition. Slight damages to binding. Ex-library copy.
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,125
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Collection of documents and letters, the majority pertaining to the freeing of Agunot (women bound in marriage by a husband who refuses to grant a divorce or who is missing and not proven dead) after the Holocaust.
Among the documents: lists of Torah novellae handwritten by the Tzadik of Ra'anana, Rabbi Yitzchak Huberman; documents of testimony for the freeing of Holocaust Agunot, with handwritten notations; various letters sent to Huberman, including: lengthy Halachic responsa (about 18 pages) by Rabbi Yechezkel Rottner Av Beit Din of Shamkut, from the period of his rabbinical service in the Wilhelm camp in Germany; and response by the great Av Beit Din of Schwäbisch Hall, Rabbi Mordechai Gershon Spalter (1886-1962, who served during that period as rabbi of Schwäbisch Hall refugee camp in Germany).
Rabbi Yitzchak HaCohen Huberman – “The Tzadik of Ra’anana” (1896-1977). Born in Poland and studied with Rabbi Ya’akov Mordechai of Belgora, with the “Shem MeShmuel” of Sochochov, and oters. Was affiliated with Hassidism of Gur and Lubavitch. Following the Holocaust, served for six years in the rabbinate of Wetzlar in Germany. Immigrated to Ra’anana in Eretz Israel. Was known as an exalted righteous individual and a miracle worker. Rabbi Shach refers to him in his approbation to his book Ben Le’oshri: “Abundant with wisdom in the revealed and concealed”.
Dozens of leaves, various sizes and conditions. Fair-good condition.
Among the documents: lists of Torah novellae handwritten by the Tzadik of Ra'anana, Rabbi Yitzchak Huberman; documents of testimony for the freeing of Holocaust Agunot, with handwritten notations; various letters sent to Huberman, including: lengthy Halachic responsa (about 18 pages) by Rabbi Yechezkel Rottner Av Beit Din of Shamkut, from the period of his rabbinical service in the Wilhelm camp in Germany; and response by the great Av Beit Din of Schwäbisch Hall, Rabbi Mordechai Gershon Spalter (1886-1962, who served during that period as rabbi of Schwäbisch Hall refugee camp in Germany).
Rabbi Yitzchak HaCohen Huberman – “The Tzadik of Ra’anana” (1896-1977). Born in Poland and studied with Rabbi Ya’akov Mordechai of Belgora, with the “Shem MeShmuel” of Sochochov, and oters. Was affiliated with Hassidism of Gur and Lubavitch. Following the Holocaust, served for six years in the rabbinate of Wetzlar in Germany. Immigrated to Ra’anana in Eretz Israel. Was known as an exalted righteous individual and a miracle worker. Rabbi Shach refers to him in his approbation to his book Ben Le’oshri: “Abundant with wisdom in the revealed and concealed”.
Dozens of leaves, various sizes and conditions. Fair-good condition.
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $400
Sold for: $750
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Exodus-1947" affair / Aroisgegebn durkh der Hagana in galut Europa, [Germany?, 1948]. Yiddish.
Duplication of a typewritten text. It seems that the booklet was printed in favor of "Haganah" people who, at the time, were in Germany involved in acquiring weapons, recruiting and training volunteers and assisting "Habricha" movement. One of the first publications concerning the "Exodus Affair". 134 pp, 14.5X21 cm. Fair-good condition. No back cover. Stains. Tears at margins of cover. Creased corners of leaves. Spine pasted with adhesive tape.
OCLC lists one copy only.
Duplication of a typewritten text. It seems that the booklet was printed in favor of "Haganah" people who, at the time, were in Germany involved in acquiring weapons, recruiting and training volunteers and assisting "Habricha" movement. One of the first publications concerning the "Exodus Affair". 134 pp, 14.5X21 cm. Fair-good condition. No back cover. Stains. Tears at margins of cover. Creased corners of leaves. Spine pasted with adhesive tape.
OCLC lists one copy only.
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $500
Sold for: $688
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Certificate of Excellence on behalf of "Keren HaYesod in Austria, State Tax Campaign in 1948". Linz-Bindermich DPC, Sivan, 1948.
Granted to Mr. Joseph Rubinstein, "for fulfilling his duties with devotion in favor of the State of Israel" (Hebrew). Signatures (p.p.) of the chairman and secretary.
Illustrated in stencil and by hand (signed artist: Zvi Zilberman) depicting the Flag of Israel, two pillars topped with a Star of David, pictures of Tel-Aviv and a kibbutz, flowers and illustrations of a tank, a ship and factories. 30X44 cm. Good condition. Stains. Some damages at margins and on the reverse.
From the collection of Dr Simon Cohen.
Granted to Mr. Joseph Rubinstein, "for fulfilling his duties with devotion in favor of the State of Israel" (Hebrew). Signatures (p.p.) of the chairman and secretary.
Illustrated in stencil and by hand (signed artist: Zvi Zilberman) depicting the Flag of Israel, two pillars topped with a Star of David, pictures of Tel-Aviv and a kibbutz, flowers and illustrations of a tank, a ship and factories. 30X44 cm. Good condition. Stains. Some damages at margins and on the reverse.
From the collection of Dr Simon Cohen.
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Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah in Europe and Cyprus
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,875
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"Im Tirtzu Ein Zo Hagada" [Hebrew: If you will it, it is no dream]. Certificate of appreciation, written and illustrated by Pesach Irsai (Signed: S.P. Irsai, Caux). Bern, Switzerland, May 14, 1945. German.
Artistic scribe, on paper attached to cardboard: souvenir for the Swiss "WIZO" women, in appreciation of their generous work, assisting in protecting Jews and investing energy towards Eretz Israel, from WIZO women, survivors of Bergen- Belsen, from Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania and Czechoslovakia.
Text and illustrations appear behind a barbed wire fence. On the lower part are illustrations of houses, a water tower, tents and trees in Eretz Israel, on golden soil. On the right side – a woman carrying a child in her arms. On the upper left corner – a shining sun (painted white, with a golden Star of David in it).
The graphic designer and typographer Pesach István Irsai (1896-1968), a foremost modernist graphic designer in Europe between the world wars and one of the most important graphic designers in Eretz Israel. Immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1925 but returned to Hungary in 1929 due to his wife's illness. When World War II broke out he stayed in Budapest and suffered the atrocities of the holocaust. Was one of the "Kastner Train" survivors; arrived in Bergen- Belsen and then in Switzerland, where this certificate was created. Approx. 28.5X35 cm. Framed. Good condition. Stains.
Artistic scribe, on paper attached to cardboard: souvenir for the Swiss "WIZO" women, in appreciation of their generous work, assisting in protecting Jews and investing energy towards Eretz Israel, from WIZO women, survivors of Bergen- Belsen, from Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania and Czechoslovakia.
Text and illustrations appear behind a barbed wire fence. On the lower part are illustrations of houses, a water tower, tents and trees in Eretz Israel, on golden soil. On the right side – a woman carrying a child in her arms. On the upper left corner – a shining sun (painted white, with a golden Star of David in it).
The graphic designer and typographer Pesach István Irsai (1896-1968), a foremost modernist graphic designer in Europe between the world wars and one of the most important graphic designers in Eretz Israel. Immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1925 but returned to Hungary in 1929 due to his wife's illness. When World War II broke out he stayed in Budapest and suffered the atrocities of the holocaust. Was one of the "Kastner Train" survivors; arrived in Bergen- Belsen and then in Switzerland, where this certificate was created. Approx. 28.5X35 cm. Framed. Good condition. Stains.
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,188
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A large fabric flag. [Belgium, post World War II, ca. 1945].
Red flag, with an inscription embroidered with yellow threads, and with fringes. At the margins are laces for binding the flag to a pole.
On one side – an embroidered inscription in Hebrew "Workers of all nations unite! To the Noar Borochovi in Belgium, from members of Po'alei Zion in the Jewish Brigade"; on the lower part, in the center, an embroidered emblem of the "No'ar Borochovi". On the reverse appears an identical inscription in Yiddish, instead of the "No'ar Borochovi" emblem, appears the emblem of the Jewish Brigade.
"No'ar Borochovi" movement was revived after the holocaust to continue the Jewish Youth Movement "Jugend" (full name was "Jugend Farband Jugend" – Jugend Youth Alliance), youth movement of "Po'alei Zion Smol", founded in 1904, which was the first of Zionist-socialist youth movements and was active until the invasion of Nazis into Poland in September 1939. 85X136 cm. Good condition. Slight damages (unraveled threads).
Red flag, with an inscription embroidered with yellow threads, and with fringes. At the margins are laces for binding the flag to a pole.
On one side – an embroidered inscription in Hebrew "Workers of all nations unite! To the Noar Borochovi in Belgium, from members of Po'alei Zion in the Jewish Brigade"; on the lower part, in the center, an embroidered emblem of the "No'ar Borochovi". On the reverse appears an identical inscription in Yiddish, instead of the "No'ar Borochovi" emblem, appears the emblem of the Jewish Brigade.
"No'ar Borochovi" movement was revived after the holocaust to continue the Jewish Youth Movement "Jugend" (full name was "Jugend Farband Jugend" – Jugend Youth Alliance), youth movement of "Po'alei Zion Smol", founded in 1904, which was the first of Zionist-socialist youth movements and was active until the invasion of Nazis into Poland in September 1939. 85X136 cm. Good condition. Slight damages (unraveled threads).
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Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 8, 2015
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
45 miniatures made of carved limestone, created in "To-No" ["Totzeret Noar"] workshop in detention camps in Cyprus. Cyprus, [ca. 1947-1949].
Miniatures in different shapes: kitchen utensils, dice, books, face, heart, cone, and more. Two are shaped as a Fleur de Lis – emblem of "Hashomer HaTza'ir" movement (whose members were detained in Cyprus) and in two others - a hand holds a sword and a flag hanging on a sword (emblem of the "Lochamei HaGeta'ot" kibbutz founding group).
Average size: 0.5X1 cm. Good condition. Several broken items. Enclosed is a carved match.
Literature:
1. Danieli, Yuval: “Totzeret Noar, story of “To No” workshop, a youth group of Cyprus exiles” 2005 (“Yad Yaari” site, Givat Haviva). Hebrew.
2. Shealtiel, Shlomo (editor): Raise the Flag! Flags of Hashomer Hatzair, One Hundred Years of the Movement. (“Yad Yaari” publishing, Givat Haviva), 2014. Hebrew.
Miniatures in different shapes: kitchen utensils, dice, books, face, heart, cone, and more. Two are shaped as a Fleur de Lis – emblem of "Hashomer HaTza'ir" movement (whose members were detained in Cyprus) and in two others - a hand holds a sword and a flag hanging on a sword (emblem of the "Lochamei HaGeta'ot" kibbutz founding group).
Average size: 0.5X1 cm. Good condition. Several broken items. Enclosed is a carved match.
Literature:
1. Danieli, Yuval: “Totzeret Noar, story of “To No” workshop, a youth group of Cyprus exiles” 2005 (“Yad Yaari” site, Givat Haviva). Hebrew.
2. Shealtiel, Shlomo (editor): Raise the Flag! Flags of Hashomer Hatzair, One Hundred Years of the Movement. (“Yad Yaari” publishing, Givat Haviva), 2014. Hebrew.
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