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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $1,875
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Handwritten note, request for payment of debt sent to Jacob Cohen in Richmond, Virginia, by Solomon Etting and Joseph Simon. Lancaster (Pennsylvania), November 1785. English.
Handwritten note attesting to business ties between a number of prominent figures among American Jews in the 18th century: "Please pay unto Mr. Barnard Gratz on order seventeen shillings & six pence it being a book debt appearing against you from Nov. 1780 – agreeable to the Dipreciation".
The note is signed by Solomon Etting, "for Joseph Simon". Appearing in the lower left corner is the name of the addressee, Jacob Cohen of Richmond, Virginia.
During the period when the note was written, the Jewish community in the United States was extremely small: at the end of the 18th century, only about 2,000 Jews lived in the United States.
Solomon Etting (1764-1847), whose signature appears on the note, was a merchant, politician and activist for the rights of American Jews. At the age of 18 he became the first American shochet (traditional Jewish slaughterer). He worked for many years to advance a bill that would allow Maryland Jews to hold public office. The "Jew Bill" was finally ratified in 1826, following which Etting served as a member of the Baltimore city council. Etting's first wife was the daughter of Joseph Simon and his second wife was the daughter of Barnard Gratz.
Joseph Simon (1712-1804) was a merchant and the leader of the Jewish community in Lancaster. Simon engaged in trade with the Native Americans and contributed significantly to the development of Pennsylvania. During the American War of Independence he provided weapons and merchandise to the Continental Army – the unified command of the thirteen American colonies fighting Britain during the war.
Barnard Gratz (1738-1801), born in Lagendorf, Germany, immigrated to the U.S. in 1754 and settled in Philadelphia. Together with his brother Michael he engaged in trade, among others with the Native Americans, providing the United States government with Native American goods. The Gratz brothers formed trade routes between New Orleans and Quebec, and, as the political climate improved, also traded in the vicinity of Pennsylvania, Illinois and Kentucky. Their signatures appear, among others, on the Non-Importation Resolution from 1765 – a resolution against the importation of goods from Britain, declared in protest of the Stamp Act imposed by the British parliament on the American colonies that same year. About a decade later the Gratz brothers also provided supplies to the Continental Army. Barnard Gratz was the first leader of the Mikveh Israel congregation in Philadelphia.
The note's addressee is possibly the merchant Jacob I. Cohen (1744-1823), one of the first settlers of Richmond, Virginia and the founder of the company Cohen & Isaacs.
9X16.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Folding marks and creases. Stains. Tears to margins and along one of the folding lines.
Handwritten note attesting to business ties between a number of prominent figures among American Jews in the 18th century: "Please pay unto Mr. Barnard Gratz on order seventeen shillings & six pence it being a book debt appearing against you from Nov. 1780 – agreeable to the Dipreciation".
The note is signed by Solomon Etting, "for Joseph Simon". Appearing in the lower left corner is the name of the addressee, Jacob Cohen of Richmond, Virginia.
During the period when the note was written, the Jewish community in the United States was extremely small: at the end of the 18th century, only about 2,000 Jews lived in the United States.
Solomon Etting (1764-1847), whose signature appears on the note, was a merchant, politician and activist for the rights of American Jews. At the age of 18 he became the first American shochet (traditional Jewish slaughterer). He worked for many years to advance a bill that would allow Maryland Jews to hold public office. The "Jew Bill" was finally ratified in 1826, following which Etting served as a member of the Baltimore city council. Etting's first wife was the daughter of Joseph Simon and his second wife was the daughter of Barnard Gratz.
Joseph Simon (1712-1804) was a merchant and the leader of the Jewish community in Lancaster. Simon engaged in trade with the Native Americans and contributed significantly to the development of Pennsylvania. During the American War of Independence he provided weapons and merchandise to the Continental Army – the unified command of the thirteen American colonies fighting Britain during the war.
Barnard Gratz (1738-1801), born in Lagendorf, Germany, immigrated to the U.S. in 1754 and settled in Philadelphia. Together with his brother Michael he engaged in trade, among others with the Native Americans, providing the United States government with Native American goods. The Gratz brothers formed trade routes between New Orleans and Quebec, and, as the political climate improved, also traded in the vicinity of Pennsylvania, Illinois and Kentucky. Their signatures appear, among others, on the Non-Importation Resolution from 1765 – a resolution against the importation of goods from Britain, declared in protest of the Stamp Act imposed by the British parliament on the American colonies that same year. About a decade later the Gratz brothers also provided supplies to the Continental Army. Barnard Gratz was the first leader of the Mikveh Israel congregation in Philadelphia.
The note's addressee is possibly the merchant Jacob I. Cohen (1744-1823), one of the first settlers of Richmond, Virginia and the founder of the company Cohen & Isaacs.
9X16.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Folding marks and creases. Stains. Tears to margins and along one of the folding lines.
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Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
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Full annals of the revolution in France, 1830, to which is added, a full account of the celebration of said revolution in the city of New York on the 25th November, 1830 by Myer Moses and William Hone. New York: J.& J. Harper, 1830. English.
A book about the 1830 Revolution, in which the middle class in France overthrew King Charles X and crowned King Louis Philippe. The first part of the book describes the events of this revolution in France. The second part of the book tells about the celebrations held in New York to mark the revolution, concurrently with the celebrations marking 47 years to the end of the American Independence War.
The author of the book, Myer Moses (1779-1833), was born to a Jewish family in the town of Charleston; worked as a bank director and in 1810 was elected to the state legislature of South Carolina. Moses was known as an American patriot. He served as an officer in the 1812 war and was involved in slave trade.
[12], 255, 151 pp, 18 cm. Fair condition. Numerous stains and creases. Some marginal tears. Ownership inscription on front endpaper. Leather binding, slight stains, blemishes and tears. Front binding slightly loose (detached at top from spine).
Not in NLI.
A book about the 1830 Revolution, in which the middle class in France overthrew King Charles X and crowned King Louis Philippe. The first part of the book describes the events of this revolution in France. The second part of the book tells about the celebrations held in New York to mark the revolution, concurrently with the celebrations marking 47 years to the end of the American Independence War.
The author of the book, Myer Moses (1779-1833), was born to a Jewish family in the town of Charleston; worked as a bank director and in 1810 was elected to the state legislature of South Carolina. Moses was known as an American patriot. He served as an officer in the 1812 war and was involved in slave trade.
[12], 255, 151 pp, 18 cm. Fair condition. Numerous stains and creases. Some marginal tears. Ownership inscription on front endpaper. Leather binding, slight stains, blemishes and tears. Front binding slightly loose (detached at top from spine).
Not in NLI.
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Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $450
Sold for: $563
Including buyer's premium
Message of the President of the United States, Transmitting, in compliance with resolutions of the House, information relative to discriminations in Switzerland against citizens of the United States of the Hebrew persuasion. [Washington, 1860]. English.
"Message of the President of the United States", official publication from the 36th US Congress – a collection of documents and letters to and from official representatives, delegates and ministers in the U.S. and Switzerland discussing the issue of the discrimination of Jewish U.S. citizens in Switzerland. The documents and letters were collected by order of American President James Buchanan and presented to the House of Representatives in April 1860.
In 1850 the U.S. and Switzerland had signed a commercial treaty which included a paragraph prohibiting American Jews from engaging in trade in Switzerland (at the time Swiss Jews had not yet been granted equal rights). The treaty incited outrage among American Jews, and many of them were involved in the attempt to amend or abrogate it.
101 pp (without cover or binding), 23 cm. Good condition. A few stains. Strips of paper and cloth and pasting marks on the booklet's spine.
Singerman 1691.
"Message of the President of the United States", official publication from the 36th US Congress – a collection of documents and letters to and from official representatives, delegates and ministers in the U.S. and Switzerland discussing the issue of the discrimination of Jewish U.S. citizens in Switzerland. The documents and letters were collected by order of American President James Buchanan and presented to the House of Representatives in April 1860.
In 1850 the U.S. and Switzerland had signed a commercial treaty which included a paragraph prohibiting American Jews from engaging in trade in Switzerland (at the time Swiss Jews had not yet been granted equal rights). The treaty incited outrage among American Jews, and many of them were involved in the attempt to amend or abrogate it.
101 pp (without cover or binding), 23 cm. Good condition. A few stains. Strips of paper and cloth and pasting marks on the booklet's spine.
Singerman 1691.
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Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $450
Sold for: $563
Including buyer's premium
Message from the President of the United States, Communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 28, 1872, correspondence in regard to the persecution and oppression of the Israelites in Roumania. [Washington, 1872]. English.
"Message from the President of the United States", official publication from the 42nd US Congress – collection of letters exchanged between the American consul in Romania, Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, and the U.S. Secretary of State and other bodies, on the issue of the persecution of Romanian Jews. The letters were collected by order of the President of the U.S., Ulysses Simpson Grant, and presented to the Senate in May 1872.
Benjamin Franklin Peixotto (1834-1890) was an American attorney, journalist and diplomat. In 1870 he was appointed American Consul in Romania, and as part of this position acted to protect the rights of Jews and promote the granting of citizenship to Romania's Jews. In Romania Peixotto founded the "Society of Zion", the basis for the later founding of the Romanian "Bnai Brith" organization.
14 pp (without cover), 23 cm. Good condition. Small tears to margins of first leaf. Pasting marks on the booklet's spine.
Singerman 2366.
"Message from the President of the United States", official publication from the 42nd US Congress – collection of letters exchanged between the American consul in Romania, Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, and the U.S. Secretary of State and other bodies, on the issue of the persecution of Romanian Jews. The letters were collected by order of the President of the U.S., Ulysses Simpson Grant, and presented to the Senate in May 1872.
Benjamin Franklin Peixotto (1834-1890) was an American attorney, journalist and diplomat. In 1870 he was appointed American Consul in Romania, and as part of this position acted to protect the rights of Jews and promote the granting of citizenship to Romania's Jews. In Romania Peixotto founded the "Society of Zion", the basis for the later founding of the Romanian "Bnai Brith" organization.
14 pp (without cover), 23 cm. Good condition. Small tears to margins of first leaf. Pasting marks on the booklet's spine.
Singerman 2366.
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Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
Two speeches in support of slavery, delivered by the Jewish Senator Judah Philip Benjamin to the American Senate on the eve of the Civil War. Baltimor and Washington, May 1860. English.
Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884), a Jewish-American lawyer and senator, served as Secretary of War and Secretary of State of the Confederate States during the Civil War. The scion of a family of immigrants from Britain, Benjamin grew up and was educated in North Carolina, and was accepted to study law at Yale University at fourteen years of age. His extraordinary talents won him a seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1842, and ten years later he became the second Jewish senator in the United States. Benjamin was strongly opposed to the abolition of slavery, and after the southern states seceded from the Union, he was appointed a cabinet member, secretary of war, and secretary of state of the Confederate States. After the defeat of the South ended his public career in the United States, he went to England, where he became an advisor to Queen Victoria. In his final years, he turned his back completely upon his American past, destroyed his personal papers, broke off relations with his acquaintances, and never set foot in the United States again.
These booklets contain two of the speeches that Benjamin gave before the American Senate on the eve of the Civil War, which express his firm opposition to the emancipation of the slaves in the United States. The speeches attack, among other things, the views of the "senator from Illinois" – Abraham Lincoln – and seek to show the contradictions, errors, and subversion against the United States Constitution that Lincoln’s positions supposedly contained.
1. Relations of States, Speech of The Hon. J.P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, Delivered in The Senate of The U.S., May 8, 1860, on The Resolutions Submitted by The Hon. Jefferson Davis. Baltimore: Murphy & Co., [1860].
8 pp, 23 cm. Good condition. First and last leaves are detached. Slight stains. Minor blemishes and tears at margins.
2. Defence of The National Democracy Against The Attack of Judge Douglass - Constitutional Rights of The States, Speech of Hon. J.P. Benjamin, of Louisiana. Washington: The National Democratic Executive Committee, 1860.
21 pp, 22 cm. Good-fair condition. A small number of stains. Tears to title page (most of them reinforced with adhesive tape). Adhesive tape along the spine.
Both not in NLI.
Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884), a Jewish-American lawyer and senator, served as Secretary of War and Secretary of State of the Confederate States during the Civil War. The scion of a family of immigrants from Britain, Benjamin grew up and was educated in North Carolina, and was accepted to study law at Yale University at fourteen years of age. His extraordinary talents won him a seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1842, and ten years later he became the second Jewish senator in the United States. Benjamin was strongly opposed to the abolition of slavery, and after the southern states seceded from the Union, he was appointed a cabinet member, secretary of war, and secretary of state of the Confederate States. After the defeat of the South ended his public career in the United States, he went to England, where he became an advisor to Queen Victoria. In his final years, he turned his back completely upon his American past, destroyed his personal papers, broke off relations with his acquaintances, and never set foot in the United States again.
These booklets contain two of the speeches that Benjamin gave before the American Senate on the eve of the Civil War, which express his firm opposition to the emancipation of the slaves in the United States. The speeches attack, among other things, the views of the "senator from Illinois" – Abraham Lincoln – and seek to show the contradictions, errors, and subversion against the United States Constitution that Lincoln’s positions supposedly contained.
1. Relations of States, Speech of The Hon. J.P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, Delivered in The Senate of The U.S., May 8, 1860, on The Resolutions Submitted by The Hon. Jefferson Davis. Baltimore: Murphy & Co., [1860].
8 pp, 23 cm. Good condition. First and last leaves are detached. Slight stains. Minor blemishes and tears at margins.
2. Defence of The National Democracy Against The Attack of Judge Douglass - Constitutional Rights of The States, Speech of Hon. J.P. Benjamin, of Louisiana. Washington: The National Democratic Executive Committee, 1860.
21 pp, 22 cm. Good-fair condition. A small number of stains. Tears to title page (most of them reinforced with adhesive tape). Adhesive tape along the spine.
Both not in NLI.
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Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
The African Slave Trade, the Secret Purpose of the Insurgents to Revive It. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, Son & Co., 1863. English.
The booklet presents a letter sent by the secretary of the confederacy, Judah Philip Benjamin, to Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, Confederate minister to Russia. The letter was sent while the confederacy representatives negotiated an agreement of recognition as an independent nation by European powers. During the negotiations some of the European powers required a stipulation on the part of the Confederacy forbidding slave trade. While the confederacy attempted to avoid such a stipulation, Benjamin sent a letter to Lamar arguing that the Confederacy was already legally bound to forbid slave trade and further stipulation is not necessary.
According to the introduction to the booklet, the letter was intercepted by the Northern authorities on its way to the addressee and was published in the paper National Intelligencer, accompanied by articles clarifying its true intention – to revive slave trade after winning recognition. The articles imply that the South's legal system enables each state to secede from the federation and pass new laws, or, alternatively, to join two more states and propose a law revision.
The letter and the articles are re-printed in this booklet.
24 pp, approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Small tears at margins. First leaf is partly detached. Cover is detached and torn in half (along the spine), with tears and open tears at margins. Ink-stamp on inside front cover.
See previous item.
The booklet presents a letter sent by the secretary of the confederacy, Judah Philip Benjamin, to Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, Confederate minister to Russia. The letter was sent while the confederacy representatives negotiated an agreement of recognition as an independent nation by European powers. During the negotiations some of the European powers required a stipulation on the part of the Confederacy forbidding slave trade. While the confederacy attempted to avoid such a stipulation, Benjamin sent a letter to Lamar arguing that the Confederacy was already legally bound to forbid slave trade and further stipulation is not necessary.
According to the introduction to the booklet, the letter was intercepted by the Northern authorities on its way to the addressee and was published in the paper National Intelligencer, accompanied by articles clarifying its true intention – to revive slave trade after winning recognition. The articles imply that the South's legal system enables each state to secede from the federation and pass new laws, or, alternatively, to join two more states and propose a law revision.
The letter and the articles are re-printed in this booklet.
24 pp, approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Small tears at margins. First leaf is partly detached. Cover is detached and torn in half (along the spine), with tears and open tears at margins. Ink-stamp on inside front cover.
See previous item.
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Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
12 loan certificates issued by the Confederate States of America (Confederacy) in order to raise funds for war financing. Confederate States of America, 1862-1863.
The certificates are in the sums of $100, $500 and $1000, and attached to each is a different number of interest coupons. All show the portrait of Judah Philip Benjamin.
The Confederacy was created in 1861 by the southern U.S. states allowing slavery. Their secession from the United States triggered the Civil War, which ended with the victory of the Northern states in 1865 and the abolition of slavery.
Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884), an attorney and statesman, representative of the State of Louisiana in the American House of Representatives and the second Jew to serve as senator in the U.S. senate. With the secession of Louisiana and the other southern states from the United States Benjamin was appointed Attorney General of the Confederate government, later serving as the Secretary of War and the State Secretary. At the end of the war he fled to England, where he led a successful career as a much sought-after attorney. For more on Benjamin, see item 281.
Benjamin often faced anti-Semitism, both on the part of his allies in the Confederate government and on the part of his rivals. However, his political achievements were admired, and this was expressed, among other things, in the printing of his portrait on loan certificates of the Confederacy and on one of the Confederacy's banknotes (the $2 bill). Benjamin is the first and presumably only Jew whose portrait appeared on an American bill or bond.
Width: 35 cm in average. Height: 31.5 to 43 cm. Condition varies, good to fair. Stains. Tears and open tears. Creases.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
The certificates are in the sums of $100, $500 and $1000, and attached to each is a different number of interest coupons. All show the portrait of Judah Philip Benjamin.
The Confederacy was created in 1861 by the southern U.S. states allowing slavery. Their secession from the United States triggered the Civil War, which ended with the victory of the Northern states in 1865 and the abolition of slavery.
Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884), an attorney and statesman, representative of the State of Louisiana in the American House of Representatives and the second Jew to serve as senator in the U.S. senate. With the secession of Louisiana and the other southern states from the United States Benjamin was appointed Attorney General of the Confederate government, later serving as the Secretary of War and the State Secretary. At the end of the war he fled to England, where he led a successful career as a much sought-after attorney. For more on Benjamin, see item 281.
Benjamin often faced anti-Semitism, both on the part of his allies in the Confederate government and on the part of his rivals. However, his political achievements were admired, and this was expressed, among other things, in the printing of his portrait on loan certificates of the Confederacy and on one of the Confederacy's banknotes (the $2 bill). Benjamin is the first and presumably only Jew whose portrait appeared on an American bill or bond.
Width: 35 cm in average. Height: 31.5 to 43 cm. Condition varies, good to fair. Stains. Tears and open tears. Creases.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
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Voices from the Hearth, A Collection of Verses, by Isidor G. Ascher, published by John Lovell, Montrewal / D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1863. English.
A poetry book by Isidore Gordon Gottschalk Ascher (1835-1914), Jewish author and poet, active in Britain and Canada, one of the founders of Temple Emanuel in Quebec and the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society.
A number of poems in the book relate to Jewish subjects, among them: "Esther", "The Traveler and the Tree" (from the Talmud) and "To the Memory of Lady Montefiore". A number of poems are about subjects related to Canada and the United States, including poems about slavery and the American Civil War.
A dedication from 1864, handwritten by the author, appears on the first page (English).
168 pp, 18 cm. Leather binding with gilt decorations. Gilt edges. Good condition. Some stains. Blemishes to margins of binding, and to spine.
Singerman 1757.
A poetry book by Isidore Gordon Gottschalk Ascher (1835-1914), Jewish author and poet, active in Britain and Canada, one of the founders of Temple Emanuel in Quebec and the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society.
A number of poems in the book relate to Jewish subjects, among them: "Esther", "The Traveler and the Tree" (from the Talmud) and "To the Memory of Lady Montefiore". A number of poems are about subjects related to Canada and the United States, including poems about slavery and the American Civil War.
A dedication from 1864, handwritten by the author, appears on the first page (English).
168 pp, 18 cm. Leather binding with gilt decorations. Gilt edges. Good condition. Some stains. Blemishes to margins of binding, and to spine.
Singerman 1757.
Category
Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
A Class Book for Jewish Youth of Both Sexes, by H. A. Henry. New York: L. H. Frank, 1866. English. Second Amercian edition.
A textbook for Jewish children containing excerpts from the Bible, religious laws, customs, stories, and Jewish history.
The author, Henry Abraham Henry (London, 1800/1806 – U.S., 1879), was a rabbi and teacher in London. He served, among other positions, as the principal of the Jewish Free School. In 1849, he immigrated to the United States, where he served as the rabbi of various communities, including Shearith Israel in San Francisco.
V, [2], 8-124 pp, 19 cm. Good condition. Small tear at inner margins of first page. Cloth-covered cardboard binding, slightly faded, with slight tears and blemishes. Tears to spine.
Singerman 1946.
A textbook for Jewish children containing excerpts from the Bible, religious laws, customs, stories, and Jewish history.
The author, Henry Abraham Henry (London, 1800/1806 – U.S., 1879), was a rabbi and teacher in London. He served, among other positions, as the principal of the Jewish Free School. In 1849, he immigrated to the United States, where he served as the rabbi of various communities, including Shearith Israel in San Francisco.
V, [2], 8-124 pp, 19 cm. Good condition. Small tear at inner margins of first page. Cloth-covered cardboard binding, slightly faded, with slight tears and blemishes. Tears to spine.
Singerman 1946.
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Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $600
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Pure Words, a Collection of Special Prayers, by Isaac P. Mendes. Savannah, Georgia (U.S.): Moses S. Byck, 1884. English.
Book with selected prayers for weekdays and for special occasions. Three prayers for confirmation ceremonies appear at the end of the book. The prayers were composed by Isaac Mendes (1853-1904) who served for 27 years as rabbi of Mickva Israel congregation in Savannah, Georgia. During the years of his service the congregation moved gradually away from the Portuguese custom to adopting the Reform custom.
56 pp, 16.5 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Some stains and creases. Pen inscriptions and minor blemishes to endpapers. Minor blemishes to spine and to corners of binding.
Not in NLI.
Singerman 3272.
Book with selected prayers for weekdays and for special occasions. Three prayers for confirmation ceremonies appear at the end of the book. The prayers were composed by Isaac Mendes (1853-1904) who served for 27 years as rabbi of Mickva Israel congregation in Savannah, Georgia. During the years of his service the congregation moved gradually away from the Portuguese custom to adopting the Reform custom.
56 pp, 16.5 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Some stains and creases. Pen inscriptions and minor blemishes to endpapers. Minor blemishes to spine and to corners of binding.
Not in NLI.
Singerman 3272.
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Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $700
Sold for: $875
Including buyer's premium
Zmir Aritzim, An Anonymous Controversy against the Sect of Chassidim, by Rabbi David of Maków, with a foreword by Efraim Deinard. Newark (New Jersey): Benzion Nathansohn, 1899. Third edition. Additional title page in English.
Bibliophile edition. The book was printed in a tall narrow format, on paper in various colors.
"Zmir Aritzim" is one of the sharpest books challenging Chassidism. The author calls in his book for a war against Chassidism, derides its customs, and bluntly contests the heads of the movement, especially its founder, R. Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, and the books attributed to him by his disciples.
The book contains a forward by the historian and polemicist Efraim Deinard (1846-1930), in which he tries to trace the origin of the book and reaches the wrong conclusion that the author of this book is Rabbi Ya'akov Bachrach. On the front endpaper appears a long handwritten note by Nechemia Shmuel Leibovitz, Jewish Studies scholar, about the book and about the foreword by Deinard: "I could not reveal it during his life without aggravating him… the book Zmir Aritizm was printed in Warsaw in 1798 – when Bachrach was not yet born… and all that Deinard wrote is completely wrong".
XXVIII, 76, [1] pp, 15 cm. Good condition. Some stains and tears. Last leaf (English title page) is detached. Two bookplates on inside front binding. Some blemishes to binding.
Bibliophile edition. The book was printed in a tall narrow format, on paper in various colors.
"Zmir Aritzim" is one of the sharpest books challenging Chassidism. The author calls in his book for a war against Chassidism, derides its customs, and bluntly contests the heads of the movement, especially its founder, R. Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, and the books attributed to him by his disciples.
The book contains a forward by the historian and polemicist Efraim Deinard (1846-1930), in which he tries to trace the origin of the book and reaches the wrong conclusion that the author of this book is Rabbi Ya'akov Bachrach. On the front endpaper appears a long handwritten note by Nechemia Shmuel Leibovitz, Jewish Studies scholar, about the book and about the foreword by Deinard: "I could not reveal it during his life without aggravating him… the book Zmir Aritizm was printed in Warsaw in 1798 – when Bachrach was not yet born… and all that Deinard wrote is completely wrong".
XXVIII, 76, [1] pp, 15 cm. Good condition. Some stains and tears. Last leaf (English title page) is detached. Two bookplates on inside front binding. Some blemishes to binding.
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Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
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![A footed goblet. [United States], dedication from 1863. Silver (not marked), engraved. A footed goblet, engraved with vegetal](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/288_1.jpg "Silver Goblet – United States, 1863 – Dedication")
![A footed goblet. [United States], dedication from 1863. Silver (not marked), engraved. A footed goblet, engraved with vegetal](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/288_2.jpg "Silver Goblet – United States, 1863 – Dedication")
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
A footed goblet. [United States], dedication from 1863.
Silver (not marked), engraved.
A footed goblet, engraved with vegetal patterns. A dedication in engraved within a medallion surround by a wreath of leaves: "Grace Louise, from Lizzie F. Broun. Feb 6th 1863".
Height: 12 cm. Diameter of base: 5.5 cm. Good condition. Slight bends.
Silver (not marked), engraved.
A footed goblet, engraved with vegetal patterns. A dedication in engraved within a medallion surround by a wreath of leaves: "Grace Louise, from Lizzie F. Broun. Feb 6th 1863".
Height: 12 cm. Diameter of base: 5.5 cm. Good condition. Slight bends.
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Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
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