Nine photographs from Zhitomir, Ukraine. Unknown photographer, [1905].
1-4. Four photographs documenting the aftermath of the Pogrom executed against the Jews of Zhitomir following the 1905 revolution. Three portray the interior of a demolished house and the fourth portrays the "Student Weinstein who was the first who fell in the war on the Podil in the Zhitomir Pogrom" (Leibush Ephraim ben Shlomo Weinstein, a 21 year old student, member of the Jewish Self-Defense organization in Zhitomir).
5-8. Four photographs portraying groups of children and boys, and Jewish families in Zhitomir.
9. Photograph portraying a bridge over one of the rivers of Zhitomir.
Average size: 12.5X17 cm. Good-fair condition. All photographs are mounted on card, some mounts are cut on the photograph's edge. Stains and minor tears to photographs and mounts (open tear to edge of one photograph). Photograph of the pogrom's victim is titled by hand on the mount.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.

Tractatus Raby Samuelis, Errorem Judeorum Indicans [The Epistle of Rabbi Samuel…]. Printed for Giovanni Andrea Valvassori, Venice, 1537. Latin.
A polemic anti-Semitic treatise, divided into 27 short chapters, attempting to prove the truth of Christianity. The work comprises an epistle allegedly written by Samuel of Morocco (Samuel Marochitanus), a Jew who converted to Christianity, to his friend, Rabbi Isaac. It deals with the long exile of the Jews, which, according to the writer, was caused by the Jews' sin.
The treatise was presumably written in the late 1330s. It opens with a short introduction by Dominican monk and Bishop of Marrakech Alfonso Buenhombre, in which he claims that he translated the epistle from an ancient Arabic manuscript which was concealed for many years. The original Arabic manuscript, from which Buenhombre allegedly translated the epistle, has never been found, and it is now believed that Buenhombre composed the text himself (Samuel of Morocco was presumably based on Al-Samawal al-Maghribi, a Jewish mathematician, astronomer and physician who converted to Isalam, the author of the polemic book Ifḥām al-Yahūd [Confutation of the Jews]).
The Epistle of Rabbi Samuel was one of the most widely copied and printed anti-Semitic works in Europe of the late Middle Ages (it was printed in many editions, in different languages). It grew to be a deeply influential anti-Semitic tract, influencing anti-Semitic theologians such as Anton Margaritha and Martin Luther.
[27] ff., 15.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, some dark. Notations to margins. Vellum over card boards. Minor blemishes to binding.
Literature: Orah Limor, The Epistle of Rabbi Samuel of Morocco: A Best-Seller in the World of Polemics, in: Contra Iudaeos. Ancient and Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1996. pp. 177-194.

Zur Erinnerung an den Tendenzprozesz von Tisza-Eszlár [In memory of the biased trial of Tisza-Eszlár]. Published by J. Kleinberger; Kellner u. Mohrlüder Press, Budapest, [ca. 1883]. German. Lithograph after Alfons Giehsz.
Lithographic print - portraits of the five defense attorneys who took part in the defense of the Jews accused of the blood libel in the village of Tiszaeszlár in eastern Hungary in 1882. In the center, portrait of the chief defense lawyer, Eötvös Károly, and around it portraits of the defense attorneys Alexander Funták, Bernhardt Friedmann, Max Szekely and Ignatz Heumann. Printed beneath the portraits is the inscription "In memory of the biased trial of Tisza-Eszlár 1883. The portraits of the acclaimed defense attorneys".
The blood libel known as the Tiszaeszlár Affair occurred in the Hungarian village of Tiszaeszlár in 1882, after a Christian girl named Eszter Solymosi disappeared from her home several days before Passover, and did not return. Fifteen Jews were accused of abducting and murdering the girl, and in summer of 1882 they were brought to trial. Their defense was led by the attorney, journalist and member of Hungarian parliament Eötvös Károly, who worked tirelessly to prove their innocence. Eventually, in August 1883, the defendants were cleared of all charges.
46.5X61.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains, including dampstains. Tears and minor creases to edges. Long tear (approx. 16 cm.) to lower part.
Rare.

Printed certificate, confirmation of transfer of funds to the "Ha'avara" company, owned jointly by the Anglo-Palestine Bank, Bank of the Temple Society and the Jewish Agency, with handwritten details and stamps of the Bank of the Temple Society. 1935. English.
The Ha'avara Agreement ("transfer agreement") was signed in 1933 between the government of Nazi Germany and the Jewish Agency, with the aim of transferring the possessions and capital of German Jews to Palestine. Within the framework of the agreement, wealthy German Jews, planning to emigrate to Palestine, transferred their money to one of three mediating companies ("HaNote'ah", Anglo-Palestine Bank or"Ha'avara") and they in turn transferred it to companies in Palestine, with a promise to purchase only German goods. After the immigrants arrived to Palestine, two thirds of their original funds were returned to them.
The agreement caused a major controversy in the Jewish community in Palestine and in the Diaspora, as many questioned the moral propriety of negotiating with the Nazis and the economic gain to be derived there from.
[1] f, 22.5X24 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Filing holes. Minor stains.

Jak zapobiegać chorobom zakaźnym i jak je zwalczać? [How to prevent and fight Infectious diseases?], by Dr. Stefania Silberberg. Krakow: Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna [ZSS – Jewish Social Self-Help organization], 1941. Polish.
Jewish medicine in the ghettoes is considered a one-time phenomenon in history – the establishment of a health system by persecuted victims under the threat of death. Immediately after the establishment of the first ghettos, Jewish physicians (whose percentage in the population was very high – approximately 40% of all Polish physicians on the eve of the war were Jewish) started setting up an extensive health system and before long established an efficient, disciplined infrastructure: hospitals, family healthcare centers, women's and children's medicine, social medicine, pharmacies, medical schools and even research labs.
Throughout the years of the ghettos' existence, right up to their destruction, most of the Jewish physicians continued working, providing their services to the inmates of the ghetto, even when the mortality rate of the physicians, who contracted contagious diseases, reached 20 percent.
This rare booklet provides important documentation of medical activity in the ghettos: a healthcare manual for the Jews of the ghetto, written by a Jewish physician in the Krakow ghetto. The manual, published by the JSS organization (JSS – J üdische Soziale Selbsthilfe, the only Jewish help organization given Nazi permission to operate in the Generalgouvernement area), is one of the only publications printed by Jews in the ghettos with permission (the German authorities forbade almost every Jewish publication in the area of occupied Poland). As early as June 1941, JSS representatives requested German authorities for special permission to print 50,000 copies, and after several months received a limited approval to print 10,000 copies to be distributed through the branches of the organization in the various ghettos (see enclosed material).
The manual begins with a short introduction on the subject of bacteria, epidemics and vaccines, followed by three chapters dedicated each to a different disease: Typhus fever (Tyfus plamisty), Typhoid (Tyfus Brzuszny) and Dysentery (Czerwonka) – three common diseases that killed thousands of the Jews in ghettos throughout the war.
The author, physician Stefania Silberberg, is mentioned in several listings on the "Yad Vashem" and the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum websites, and in a list of deceased from Krakow printed in the medical journal Przeglad Lekarski (issue no. 1, July 1945). The listings indicate that Stefania was born in 1898 in Krakow to parents named Hermann and Adela and was a bacteriologist by training. In 1942 she was presumably sent to her death at the Belzec or Treblinka extermination camp.
Rare booklet. Not in OCLC.
14 pp, approx. 23 cm. Good condition. A few stains and blemishes, mostly to cover. Rusty staples.