Masks Behind the Scenes, F[elix] Freidman. Warsaw, 1925.
Printed notes of Jewish actors and dramatists, with their names and names of the characters whom they acted.
[48] leaves, 21 cm. Fair condition. The sheets are detached from each-other. Cover is detached, stained and worn.

Manuscript by Yossef Perl of Tarnopol (1773-1839) one of the leading scholars and writers of Galicia, and an outstanding opponent to the Chassidic movement in the 19th century. Written between autumn of 1816 and July 1818.
The manuscript includes "amulet – secret code" and "an encrypted Maggen David", being part of a parody by Perl on Chassidut Breslev (printed with slight changes from a different manuscript).
In "The secret code" Perl is mocking at a passage said by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk about the Ba'al-Shem-Tov; in the Encrypted Maggen David" the names of Rabbi Yisrael Ben Eliezer (the Ba'al-Shem-Tov) and Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum famous for his amulets, are implied. Perl expressed in this way his mockery at their use of amulets bearing their names, and emphasized that Chassidut is in fact magic and witchcraft.
On the back of the leaf is a draft of a letter in German in Hebrew letters, probably from one of Perl's group in Tarnopol.
25 X 19.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks.
Manuscript was checked by the researcher Yonatan Meir, see attached page.

Zeev Ya'abetz , two handwritten letters, addressed to his family:
1. Letter to his wife, 1874. An exciting, loving and poetic letter. It seems that the letter was written while he was sick in a sanatorium.
2. Letter to his sons, Vilna, eve of Yom Kipur 1904. A pedagogic letter in the spirit of famous will and moral letters.
Zeev Ya'abetz (1847-1924), writer, editor, historian and educator, one of the founders of "Ha-Mizrachi" movement and writer of its declaration.
Varying sizes and conditions.