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Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
March 31, 2020
Opening: $500
Unsold
"LeZecher Olam Yiheye Tzaddik! Picture of the Rabbi, Tzaddik and Gaon, R. Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch". Lithograph. [Vilnius: N. Metz, 1886].
In the picture, the Rebbe is portrayed in his home, on the background of his library, dressed in white Shabbat garments. A book rests on his knees with his eyeglasses on it. Captions below the portrait: "LeZecher Olam Yiheye Tzaddik! Picture of the Rabbi, Tzaddik and Gaon, R. Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch of blessed memory" and (in Russian) "Portrait of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Mendel Schneerson".
The portrait was drawn after an oil painting made in the Tzemach Tzedek's old age. In issue 96 of the periodical "Di Yidishe Heym" (p. 15), it is described: "An unknown non-Jewish painter, wished to paint the portrait of the Tzemach Tzedek, however, knowing that he will not be able to do so in the regular manner - as the Tzemach Tzedek will not agree - he had an idea: He came on a Saturday to the Tzemach Tzedek and looked at him closely, memorizing his holy face. In order to retain the moment in his memory, the painter hurried home, with his eyes almost closed, and as soon as he arrived he took his painting tools and started to draw what he saw - on canvas. Later, when the Tzemach Tzedek saw the painting, he was very upset about it, since it was painted on Shabbat (the Tzemach Tzedek is portrayed in his Shabbat garments), but was somewhat comforted since the painter made several mistakes: (a) The gentile painter painted the overcoat of the Tzemach Tzedek with the left side closed over the right side - as worn by non-Jews, whereas Jews do the opposite, with the right over the left. (b) The Tzemach Tzedek is seen holding a book. While holy books are written and read from right to left, and this is the way they are opened - to the right, the gentile painter drew the book like the books of gentiles - opened to the left".
This painting was used as a source for numerous prints. This lithograph is the first print known to have been created after the painting. In later prints the plate was reversed, so as to portray the book as opening to the right and the right side of the overcoat closed over the left side.
24X36 cm. Damaged copy. Margins trimmed, scarcely affecting the lithograph, but removing the imprint. Stains, damage and wear. Mounted on cardboard for restoration.
Literature: Shalom Dovber Levine, Treasures from the Chabad Library, Brooklyn, 2009, pp. 257-262.
In the picture, the Rebbe is portrayed in his home, on the background of his library, dressed in white Shabbat garments. A book rests on his knees with his eyeglasses on it. Captions below the portrait: "LeZecher Olam Yiheye Tzaddik! Picture of the Rabbi, Tzaddik and Gaon, R. Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch of blessed memory" and (in Russian) "Portrait of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Mendel Schneerson".
The portrait was drawn after an oil painting made in the Tzemach Tzedek's old age. In issue 96 of the periodical "Di Yidishe Heym" (p. 15), it is described: "An unknown non-Jewish painter, wished to paint the portrait of the Tzemach Tzedek, however, knowing that he will not be able to do so in the regular manner - as the Tzemach Tzedek will not agree - he had an idea: He came on a Saturday to the Tzemach Tzedek and looked at him closely, memorizing his holy face. In order to retain the moment in his memory, the painter hurried home, with his eyes almost closed, and as soon as he arrived he took his painting tools and started to draw what he saw - on canvas. Later, when the Tzemach Tzedek saw the painting, he was very upset about it, since it was painted on Shabbat (the Tzemach Tzedek is portrayed in his Shabbat garments), but was somewhat comforted since the painter made several mistakes: (a) The gentile painter painted the overcoat of the Tzemach Tzedek with the left side closed over the right side - as worn by non-Jews, whereas Jews do the opposite, with the right over the left. (b) The Tzemach Tzedek is seen holding a book. While holy books are written and read from right to left, and this is the way they are opened - to the right, the gentile painter drew the book like the books of gentiles - opened to the left".
This painting was used as a source for numerous prints. This lithograph is the first print known to have been created after the painting. In later prints the plate was reversed, so as to portray the book as opening to the right and the right side of the overcoat closed over the left side.
24X36 cm. Damaged copy. Margins trimmed, scarcely affecting the lithograph, but removing the imprint. Stains, damage and wear. Mounted on cardboard for restoration.
Literature: Shalom Dovber Levine, Treasures from the Chabad Library, Brooklyn, 2009, pp. 257-262.
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Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
March 31, 2020
Opening: $300
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
Collection of photographs - family members of the Aruch LaNer. [Germany, ca. second half of the 19th century].
Collection of some 75 photographs of family members of the Aruch LaNer, most of them carte de visite or cabinet card photographs bearing the photographers' details (photographed in Berlin, Breslau and other cities).
Most of the photographs presumably portray the descendants of R. Yisrael Meir Freimann Rabbi of Ostrowa, son-in-law of the Aruch LaNer. Organized in a fine contemporary album, which opens with a photograph of R. Yisrael Meir Freimann (mounted on card, with the gilt inscription: "Portrait of the great rabbi and Torah scholar, R. Yisrael Meir Freimann…").
Apart from the album, the collection includes an additional photograph of R. Yisrael Meir Freimann (framed); a photograph of another son-in-law of the Aruch LaNer - R. Mordechai (Markus) HaLevi Horovitz Rabbi of Frankfurt am Main, author of Mateh Levi, Avnei Zikaron and Rabbanei Frankfurt; a photograph of the cast of a Purim performance in costumes in Fulda; and more.
R. Yisrael Meir Freimann (1830-1884), son-in-law of the Aruch LaNer, rabbi of Filehne (Wieleń) and Ostrowa (Ostrów Wielkopolski, Posen Province), author of Anfei Yehuda on VeHizhir. He exchanged extensive correspondence with his father-in-law the Aruch LaNer on various topics, some of which was published in Responsa Binyan Tzion, mostly in part III of the new edition of Likutei Teshuvot - Binyan Tzion (Dvar Yerushalayim publication, Jerusalem 2002).
Approx. 75 photographs, most arranged in an album. Size and condition vary. Overall fair-good condition. Some photographs lacking in album. Damage to binding of album.
Collection of some 75 photographs of family members of the Aruch LaNer, most of them carte de visite or cabinet card photographs bearing the photographers' details (photographed in Berlin, Breslau and other cities).
Most of the photographs presumably portray the descendants of R. Yisrael Meir Freimann Rabbi of Ostrowa, son-in-law of the Aruch LaNer. Organized in a fine contemporary album, which opens with a photograph of R. Yisrael Meir Freimann (mounted on card, with the gilt inscription: "Portrait of the great rabbi and Torah scholar, R. Yisrael Meir Freimann…").
Apart from the album, the collection includes an additional photograph of R. Yisrael Meir Freimann (framed); a photograph of another son-in-law of the Aruch LaNer - R. Mordechai (Markus) HaLevi Horovitz Rabbi of Frankfurt am Main, author of Mateh Levi, Avnei Zikaron and Rabbanei Frankfurt; a photograph of the cast of a Purim performance in costumes in Fulda; and more.
R. Yisrael Meir Freimann (1830-1884), son-in-law of the Aruch LaNer, rabbi of Filehne (Wieleń) and Ostrowa (Ostrów Wielkopolski, Posen Province), author of Anfei Yehuda on VeHizhir. He exchanged extensive correspondence with his father-in-law the Aruch LaNer on various topics, some of which was published in Responsa Binyan Tzion, mostly in part III of the new edition of Likutei Teshuvot - Binyan Tzion (Dvar Yerushalayim publication, Jerusalem 2002).
Approx. 75 photographs, most arranged in an album. Size and condition vary. Overall fair-good condition. Some photographs lacking in album. Damage to binding of album.
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Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
March 31, 2020
Opening: $300
Unsold
"Picture of the true Gaon and Tzaddik, Maran R. Baruch Dov Leibowitz - by Knesset Beit Yitzchak Yeshiva in Kaminetz of Lithuania, Poland". Photograph, in an original card folder, with the photography studio's sticker: "Kerr's Studio - 151 Rivington St. New York". [New York, ca. 1929].
R. Baruch Ber traveled to the United States at the end of the 1920s, to fundraise for the Kaminetz Yeshiva, and stayed there for two years. This photograph was apparently made at that time.
Photograph size: approx. 20X25 cm. Folder maximum size: approx. 25X35 cm. Good condition. Minor damage to card folder.
R. Baruch Ber traveled to the United States at the end of the 1920s, to fundraise for the Kaminetz Yeshiva, and stayed there for two years. This photograph was apparently made at that time.
Photograph size: approx. 20X25 cm. Folder maximum size: approx. 25X35 cm. Good condition. Minor damage to card folder.
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Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
March 31, 2020
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Four photographs documenting the attempt of Agudath Israel to settle in Emek Jezreel, portraying the Machaneh Yisrael colony and its settlers. [Emek Jezreel, 1925-1926].
These photographs relate the forgotten story of the first pioneering attempt of Orthodox Jews to establish an agricultural settlement in Emek Jezreel.
One of the photographs depicts the entrance gate of the colony, bearing the sign: "Machaneh Yisrel - Colony of the Agudath Yisrael Organisation". The second photograph portrays a guard of the colony, riding a horse. In the third photograph, the houses of the colony are seen in the distance, one of the settlers is tilling his field, and Mount Tabor is seen in the background. The fourth photograph depicts members of the colony studying in the shack that served as synagogue.
In the first Agudath Israel Knessia Gedola in Vienna, 1923, decisions were reached regarding the encouragement of settlement in Eretz Israel. Approximately a year later, Agudath Israel purchased some 4000 dunam of land in Emek Jezreel, north of Afula, near the Arab village Iksal. The land was divided into small portions and sold to Orthodox buyers, primarily from Poland. In July 1925, the first group of settlers immigrated and began the settlement named Machaneh Yisrael. Within a few month, thorough infrastructural work was done, a carpentry was set up, residential huts were built, wells were dug, a road was paved and work began to prepare the land for agriculture. Later that year, the Agudath Israel center in Frankfurt published a printed album with photographs of the new colony, in order to encourage potential buyers. At the end of the year, the colony was home to some 90 settlers, mostly Chassidic young men from Poland, yet various problems relating to lack of training and resources led to the official closure of the place in October 1926. Following a second unsuccessful attempt, the land was leased to Arabs, and eventually the place was abandoned in 1932. Subsequent years saw further attempts by Agudath Israel to resettle the place, the last one being in 1938, by the Chafetz Chaim group from Gedera and the Agudah Youth Kibbutz in Kfar Saba. It was Shemittah year, and due to internal disputes and various difficulties, the place was finally abandoned. The huts, barn and stable were dismantled, and only one stone structure remained standing. (See enclosed material: Yosef Kopolowitz - "Agudath Israel Olah BeChomah - HaYishuv Machaneh Yisrael BeEmek Yizre'el", Et-Mol, issue 227, Adar-February 2013, pp. 21-24). These photographs are from the first settlement attempt in 1925-1926.
4 photographs. Approx. 11X16 cm. Good condition. Official Hebrew stamp on verso: "Machaneh Yisrael near Afula - colony of the Agudath Israel organization".
These photographs relate the forgotten story of the first pioneering attempt of Orthodox Jews to establish an agricultural settlement in Emek Jezreel.
One of the photographs depicts the entrance gate of the colony, bearing the sign: "Machaneh Yisrel - Colony of the Agudath Yisrael Organisation". The second photograph portrays a guard of the colony, riding a horse. In the third photograph, the houses of the colony are seen in the distance, one of the settlers is tilling his field, and Mount Tabor is seen in the background. The fourth photograph depicts members of the colony studying in the shack that served as synagogue.
In the first Agudath Israel Knessia Gedola in Vienna, 1923, decisions were reached regarding the encouragement of settlement in Eretz Israel. Approximately a year later, Agudath Israel purchased some 4000 dunam of land in Emek Jezreel, north of Afula, near the Arab village Iksal. The land was divided into small portions and sold to Orthodox buyers, primarily from Poland. In July 1925, the first group of settlers immigrated and began the settlement named Machaneh Yisrael. Within a few month, thorough infrastructural work was done, a carpentry was set up, residential huts were built, wells were dug, a road was paved and work began to prepare the land for agriculture. Later that year, the Agudath Israel center in Frankfurt published a printed album with photographs of the new colony, in order to encourage potential buyers. At the end of the year, the colony was home to some 90 settlers, mostly Chassidic young men from Poland, yet various problems relating to lack of training and resources led to the official closure of the place in October 1926. Following a second unsuccessful attempt, the land was leased to Arabs, and eventually the place was abandoned in 1932. Subsequent years saw further attempts by Agudath Israel to resettle the place, the last one being in 1938, by the Chafetz Chaim group from Gedera and the Agudah Youth Kibbutz in Kfar Saba. It was Shemittah year, and due to internal disputes and various difficulties, the place was finally abandoned. The huts, barn and stable were dismantled, and only one stone structure remained standing. (See enclosed material: Yosef Kopolowitz - "Agudath Israel Olah BeChomah - HaYishuv Machaneh Yisrael BeEmek Yizre'el", Et-Mol, issue 227, Adar-February 2013, pp. 21-24). These photographs are from the first settlement attempt in 1925-1926.
4 photographs. Approx. 11X16 cm. Good condition. Official Hebrew stamp on verso: "Machaneh Yisrael near Afula - colony of the Agudath Israel organization".
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