Manuscript notebook by Avraham Kagan. [Druskininkai (today in Lithuania)], 1902-1908. Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian. The manuscript includes poems, short stories and other texts in Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian, dated and signed in Cyrillic characters – "A. Kagan" or "Abram Mendelev Kagan". Among the works: • "To the Hebrew Language". • Parody on the Passover Haggadah – "Haggadah said by those in a sad plight on a cold winter night" (Hebrew), with the "A.B.K.D [Avraham Bezalel Kagan Druskininkai] commentary". • Cycle of prose and poetry – "The Story of Flour", "The Story of the Apple", "The Story of the Cherry", "The Story of the Table", "The Story of the Bird Escaping the Cage", "The Story of the Broken Silver Timepiece", "The Story of the Potato", "The Story of Honey [The Flowers]". • Additional poems and short stories of a judgmental and often sentimental character, dealing with the town of Druskininkai, texts for the Jewish Festivals, and more. To the best of our knowledge, this manuscript remains unpublished. 189 written pp. (paginated by hand; mispagination), 21.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and ink stains. Tears and minor creases to margins (slightly affecting text on several leaves). Worn cover. New binding.

Karaite Siddur. Vilna: Matz, 1891-1892. Siddur (prayer book) according to the Karaite Rite, in four volumes. The Siddur includes: daily prayers, prayers for Sabbath and holidays, Piyyutim, Haftaroth, songs and blessings, prayer for the royal family (specifically Alexander III of Russia; Hebrew and Russian), and various other texts. At the end of the third volume, prayers for Yom Kippur, translated to the Karaim language, with separate title page (1892). Four volumes: Vol. I: [2], 464 pp. (some pages bound out of sequence). Vol. II: 312, [1] pp. Vol. III: [2], 330, 14 pp. Vol. IV: 266 pp. 24.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and minor blemishes. Some tears (slightly affecting text). Leaves trimmed unevenly. Some unopen leaves. Minor worming to leaves and bindings (mostly in Vol. III). Minor wear to bindings.

Collection of books written or published by the bookseller and bibliographer Ephraim Deinard. Europe and the United States, late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hebrew. 1. "Toldot Even Reshef." Warsaw: Yitzhak Goldmann, 1875. 2. "Masa Krim" [Travels in Cremea]. Warsaw: Yitzhak Goldmann, 1878. 3. "Milhemet Krim" [The Crimean War]. Warsaw: Alexander Ginz, 1879. 4. "Masa Bi-Hatzi Ha-I Krim…" [Travels in the Crimean Peninsula… In Two Parts"]. Warsaw: Alexander Ginz, 1879-80. 5. "Se'u Ness Ziona…" ["(…) Relating to Numerous Issues in the History of Colonization in the Holy Land"]. Pressburg (today Bratislava): David Löwy and Abraham David Alkalay, 5646 [1886]. 6. "Milhamah leHashem be-Amalek…" ["The Lord will have war with Amalek, General Prohibition from All the Great Jewish Sages of All Lands against (purchasing) ‘etrogim' (citrons) from the Greek Islands in General and Corfu in Particular"]. Published by Ephraim Deinard, Newark, New Jersey, 5652 [1892]. 7. "Divrei HaYamim LeZion BeRussia…" ["Chronicles of Zion in Russia…"], in two parts (no additional parts published). Published by Ephraim Deinard, Kearny, New Jersey, 5664 [1904]. A lamentation over the passing of Theodor Herzl appears at the beginning of the second part. 8. "Zamir Aritzim HaRishon." Published by Ephraim Deinard, Kearny, New Jersey, 5664 [1904]. 9-10. "Megillah Afah…" […Polemic on behalf of Jewry against Our Contemporary Rabbis and Hassidim], by Rabbi Isaac Dov Baer Levinsohn; introduction by Ephraim Deinard. Published by Ephraim Deinard, Kearny, New Jersey, "Year [1]835 since the Destruction of Jerusalem" [i.e., Hebrew Year 5664 = 1904 CE]. Two copies with different bindings. 11. "Meha'at Sofrim" [lit. "Protest of the Authors"], a polemic against allegedly assimilationist Jewish leaders. St. Louis: Moinester Printing Co., 5678 [1918]. 12. "Zion Be'ad Mi?..." ["Zion for Who (sic)? For Bolsheviki (sic) or Jews?"]. Arlington, New Jersey: 5678 [1918]. 13. "Aruhat Bat-Ami…" ["… Preparations for the Rabbinical Congress on the Issue of Establishing a Sanhedrin in Zion." St. Louis: Moinester Printing Co., [1920]. 14. "Zikhronot Bat Ami…" ["Memoirs of My Nation, of the Story of Jews and Judaism in Russia over a period of almost 70 years, not as told by books and authors, but (rather) according to what I saw and heard with my own eyes and ears"]. Part Two. New Orleans, 5680 [1920]. Size and condition vary. Ephraim Deinard (1846-1930) was a Hebrew bibliographer – one of the greatest of the Modern Era – as well as an author, book collector, and bookseller. An accomplished historian and outspoken polemicist, he was widely regarded as a colorful, highly controversial figure. Deinard was born in Sassmacken (or Sasmaka; today Valdemārpils), Latvia. When still young, he began traveling throughout the world, and while doing so, studied many different Jewish communities, painstakingly collecting Hebrew books and manuscripts. In the 1880s, he managed a major bookstore in Odessa. Deinard immigrated to the United States in 1888, where he established a small printing house in which some of his own works were published. His rich collections provided a foundation and model for Hebrew book sections in some of the major libraries in America, and catalogues of his book collections served as an important basis for the study of Hebrew literature and Jewish culture. Deinard himself authored dozens of books; a fair number of these publications were, in addition to being serious academic works, essentially platforms for arguing his rather distinctive worldview. Having established a reputation as a particularly provocative author, predictably, many of his books aroused harsh criticism. Enclosed: four printed pages – advertisement announcing the upcoming publication of his book "Masa Krim": a Table of Contents; an appeal for support in the publication of the book; and more. These pages were possibly torn out of another book.