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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $150
Sold for: $300
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Two booklets dealing with Rabbi Shlomo Goren and the "Mamzerim Affair". Appearing in one of the booklets is a dedication handwritten by Rabbi Shlomo Goren, to Rabbi Chaim David Halevi.
1. "Halachic Opinion on Personal Status", by Shlomo Goren. [Tel-Aviv]: Chief Military Rabbinate, [1971]. Printed in 100 copies.
A halachic opinion written by Rabbi Shlomo Goren, during his tenure as the IDF Chief Rabbi, about the status of the siblings Chanoch and Miriam Langer who were declared bastards (mamzerim) by the rabbinical law courts (this due to the fact that their mother remarried without divorcing her first husband). Rabbi Goren justifies his position in favor of the siblings being cleared of the suspicion of mamzerut.
In 1972, after he was appointed Israel's Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Goren gave a Halachic ruling clearing the siblings from Mamzerut. Subsequently, leading Haredi rabbis launched an offensive against his liberal approach.
Mimeographed typescriot; with several handwritten comments and corrections. On the tenth page, a dedication handwritten by Rabbi Goren, to Rabbi Chaim David Halevi (1924-1998), the rabbi of Rishon LeZion, a member of the council of the Chief Rabbinate, who was awarded the Israel Prize for Rabbinical studies.
[2], 126 leaves, approx. 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Minor creases to margins. Worming to margins of leaves. Fabric tape on spine.
2. "The Campaign for Saving the Rabbinate in Israel and the Danger of Rabbi Shlomo Goren's Nomination", Jerusalem, [1972].
32 pp, 21.5 cm. Good condition. A few stains. An open tear in the corner of the title page (not affecting the text).
1. "Halachic Opinion on Personal Status", by Shlomo Goren. [Tel-Aviv]: Chief Military Rabbinate, [1971]. Printed in 100 copies.
A halachic opinion written by Rabbi Shlomo Goren, during his tenure as the IDF Chief Rabbi, about the status of the siblings Chanoch and Miriam Langer who were declared bastards (mamzerim) by the rabbinical law courts (this due to the fact that their mother remarried without divorcing her first husband). Rabbi Goren justifies his position in favor of the siblings being cleared of the suspicion of mamzerut.
In 1972, after he was appointed Israel's Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Goren gave a Halachic ruling clearing the siblings from Mamzerut. Subsequently, leading Haredi rabbis launched an offensive against his liberal approach.
Mimeographed typescriot; with several handwritten comments and corrections. On the tenth page, a dedication handwritten by Rabbi Goren, to Rabbi Chaim David Halevi (1924-1998), the rabbi of Rishon LeZion, a member of the council of the Chief Rabbinate, who was awarded the Israel Prize for Rabbinical studies.
[2], 126 leaves, approx. 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Minor creases to margins. Worming to margins of leaves. Fabric tape on spine.
2. "The Campaign for Saving the Rabbinate in Israel and the Danger of Rabbi Shlomo Goren's Nomination", Jerusalem, [1972].
32 pp, 21.5 cm. Good condition. A few stains. An open tear in the corner of the title page (not affecting the text).
Category
Palestine, British Mandate and Underground Movements, the State of Israel
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $120
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Collection of publications and documents related to the activity of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, 1969-1977.
A binder of documents, including publications of the Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism – some of them early (the movement was officially registered in Israel in 1971) – alongside photocopies of material about the movement and its youth movement.
Among the documents: * A research-interview, "a protocol of a meeting with Rabbi Mordechai Rotem of the community for progressive Judaism on Mount Carmel, in Haifa" (1977). * Five issues of "Shalhevet", the journal of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, 1969-1973. * Three issues of "Telem", the newsletter of the Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, 1976. * Three issues of "Or Chadash", the journal of the community for progressive Judaism in Haifa, 1977 and the booklet "The Tenth Anniversary of the Community" (1974) * Newspaper clippings related to the subject, and additional material.
Presumably, the material in the binder was collected withing the framework of the seminar "Issues in the History and Structure of Various Ethnic Groups in Israel" and it contains several documents that are not necessarily related to the Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism.
Size and condition vary. Filing holes.
A binder of documents, including publications of the Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism – some of them early (the movement was officially registered in Israel in 1971) – alongside photocopies of material about the movement and its youth movement.
Among the documents: * A research-interview, "a protocol of a meeting with Rabbi Mordechai Rotem of the community for progressive Judaism on Mount Carmel, in Haifa" (1977). * Five issues of "Shalhevet", the journal of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, 1969-1973. * Three issues of "Telem", the newsletter of the Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, 1976. * Three issues of "Or Chadash", the journal of the community for progressive Judaism in Haifa, 1977 and the booklet "The Tenth Anniversary of the Community" (1974) * Newspaper clippings related to the subject, and additional material.
Presumably, the material in the binder was collected withing the framework of the seminar "Issues in the History and Structure of Various Ethnic Groups in Israel" and it contains several documents that are not necessarily related to the Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism.
Size and condition vary. Filing holes.
Category
Palestine, British Mandate and Underground Movements, the State of Israel
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $100
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Two photographs of soldiers of the Jewish Legion in Palestine. Tulkarm and Ben-Shemen, 1919.
1. A photograph of the orchestra of the Jewish legion leading a long line of soldiers. Captioned in the plate: "The orchestra in Ben Shemen" (Hebrew).
2. Group photograph of the soldiers of the Legion in a tent camp. Dated on verso "25.2.1919", "Tulkarm", and deciated: "to my dear teacher Abba Kutner, a souvenir from his student Sperber [?], a soldier of the returning legion" (Hebrew).
On the front of the picture, one of the soldiers is marked and beneath him there is an additional inscription (partly erased). Stamped with the stamp of the photographer Ya'akov Ben-Dov.
Approx. 14X9 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Small holes in the upper margins of one of the photographs.
1. A photograph of the orchestra of the Jewish legion leading a long line of soldiers. Captioned in the plate: "The orchestra in Ben Shemen" (Hebrew).
2. Group photograph of the soldiers of the Legion in a tent camp. Dated on verso "25.2.1919", "Tulkarm", and deciated: "to my dear teacher Abba Kutner, a souvenir from his student Sperber [?], a soldier of the returning legion" (Hebrew).
On the front of the picture, one of the soldiers is marked and beneath him there is an additional inscription (partly erased). Stamped with the stamp of the photographer Ya'akov Ben-Dov.
Approx. 14X9 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Small holes in the upper margins of one of the photographs.
Category
Jewish Enlistment to the British Army – WWI and WWII
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $100
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"The Revisionist Flag, for bringing the flags of the Jewish legion" (Hebrew). Tel-Aviv: HaAretz press, 1925.
An issue of a journal issued by the Revisionist Zionist Federation dedicated to a review of the celebrations of bringing the flag of the Jewish Legion from England to be kept at the "Hurva" synagogue of Jerusalem and the official ceremony that accompanied it. The issue features articles about the Hebrew Legion and the celebrations of the Yishuv for the event, alongside polemic articles against the Zionist executive and the official institutions of the Yishuv. Appearing on the last page is a notice: "The Revisionist Zionist Federation of Tel-Aviv hereby announces to the public that due to reasons beyond its control, it was denied the right to take part in the celebration in honor of the flag of the Jewish Legion" (Hebrew).
Six years after the dissolution of the Jewish Legion, in December 1925, its flag was brought to Palestine and in an official ceremony was placed in the "Hurva" synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. The ceremony was attended by the representative of the Yishuv and its dignitaries, the president of the synagogue, the Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (who even wrote a prayer for the occasion and delivered a sermon during the ceremony) and the High Commissioner for Palestine Herbert Plumer. The Yishuv in Palestine saw the ceremony as a nationally and historically significant event and some suggested to make it an official national holiday – the Flag Day.
4 pp, approx. 46 cm. Fair condition. Fold lines. Stains. Creases, closed and open tears (some of them restored).
An issue of a journal issued by the Revisionist Zionist Federation dedicated to a review of the celebrations of bringing the flag of the Jewish Legion from England to be kept at the "Hurva" synagogue of Jerusalem and the official ceremony that accompanied it. The issue features articles about the Hebrew Legion and the celebrations of the Yishuv for the event, alongside polemic articles against the Zionist executive and the official institutions of the Yishuv. Appearing on the last page is a notice: "The Revisionist Zionist Federation of Tel-Aviv hereby announces to the public that due to reasons beyond its control, it was denied the right to take part in the celebration in honor of the flag of the Jewish Legion" (Hebrew).
Six years after the dissolution of the Jewish Legion, in December 1925, its flag was brought to Palestine and in an official ceremony was placed in the "Hurva" synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. The ceremony was attended by the representative of the Yishuv and its dignitaries, the president of the synagogue, the Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (who even wrote a prayer for the occasion and delivered a sermon during the ceremony) and the High Commissioner for Palestine Herbert Plumer. The Yishuv in Palestine saw the ceremony as a nationally and historically significant event and some suggested to make it an official national holiday – the Flag Day.
4 pp, approx. 46 cm. Fair condition. Fold lines. Stains. Creases, closed and open tears (some of them restored).
Category
Jewish Enlistment to the British Army – WWI and WWII
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $200
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Broadside issued by the New Zionist Federation calling to join the "Hebrew Battalions" and an advertisement for the newspaper "Diglenu" (Our Flag) of Tze'irei Agudat Israel (Agudat Yisrael Youth). [1940s].
1. "Hebrews in the Homeland" (Hebrew), broadside issued by the New Zionist Federation, calling for enlistment. Tel-Aviv: Strod press, [ca. 1942-1943].
The broadside calls: "[…] We shall follow Jabotinsky: we shall join the Hebrew Battalions!" (Hebrew).
Approx. 24.5X32 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Stains. Tears and tiny holes to margins, restored.
2. Advertisement for issue no. 5 [22] of the newspaper "Diglenu" (the journal of Tze'irei Agudat Israel) – "For the Recruits". Av 1948.
On the right, details about the content of the issue and on the left, a group photograph of soldiers in a "club and resort for the religious soldier of Tze'irei Agudat Israel" in Bnei-Berak. A printed piece of paper, mounted in the center, reads: "When this advertisement appears on billboards of stores, hundreds of teenagers will run to buy the newspaper. Thousands copies of it have been sent to soldiers in all camps for free".
33X25 cm (thick paper). Good-fair condition. Open tears to two corners (affecting the text). Creases, restored tears. Filing holes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
1. "Hebrews in the Homeland" (Hebrew), broadside issued by the New Zionist Federation, calling for enlistment. Tel-Aviv: Strod press, [ca. 1942-1943].
The broadside calls: "[…] We shall follow Jabotinsky: we shall join the Hebrew Battalions!" (Hebrew).
Approx. 24.5X32 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Stains. Tears and tiny holes to margins, restored.
2. Advertisement for issue no. 5 [22] of the newspaper "Diglenu" (the journal of Tze'irei Agudat Israel) – "For the Recruits". Av 1948.
On the right, details about the content of the issue and on the left, a group photograph of soldiers in a "club and resort for the religious soldier of Tze'irei Agudat Israel" in Bnei-Berak. A printed piece of paper, mounted in the center, reads: "When this advertisement appears on billboards of stores, hundreds of teenagers will run to buy the newspaper. Thousands copies of it have been sent to soldiers in all camps for free".
33X25 cm (thick paper). Good-fair condition. Open tears to two corners (affecting the text). Creases, restored tears. Filing holes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Jewish Enlistment to the British Army – WWI and WWII
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $150
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Nine issues of the newspaper "HeChayal" and two letterheads with the emblem of the Jewish Brigade.
1-9. Nine issues of "HeChayal, Jewish Soldiers' Daily Newspaper". [Italy], 1945-1946. Four regular issues: 602 (Passover issue), 618, 625, 653 (last issue), April-June 1946; five supplements "For Sabbath and Holidays", October 1945, April-May 1946.
The number of pages varies from issue to issue, 34 cm. Fair-poor condition. Possibly, one or two of the issues are incomplete.
10-11. Two letterheads with the emblem of the Jewish Brigade and the caption "Headquarters, Jewish Brigade Group, B. A. O. R".
Fair-good condition.
1-9. Nine issues of "HeChayal, Jewish Soldiers' Daily Newspaper". [Italy], 1945-1946. Four regular issues: 602 (Passover issue), 618, 625, 653 (last issue), April-June 1946; five supplements "For Sabbath and Holidays", October 1945, April-May 1946.
The number of pages varies from issue to issue, 34 cm. Fair-poor condition. Possibly, one or two of the issues are incomplete.
10-11. Two letterheads with the emblem of the Jewish Brigade and the caption "Headquarters, Jewish Brigade Group, B. A. O. R".
Fair-good condition.
Category
Jewish Enlistment to the British Army – WWI and WWII
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $200
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Collection of journals issued by the Jewish Transportation Unit and the Palestinian Regiment of the British Army. Palestine and elsewhere, 1942-1943. Hebrew and a little English.
The journals provide much information on the activities of the companies and units, the course of the war and the life of the Jewish soldiers in Europe. Many of them are accompanied by illustrations. In the collection:
1. "The Infantry, from the Buffs – for the Hebrew Regiments, Journal of the 2nd Company, the First Hebrew Regiment, the Palestinian Regiment" (Hebrew). Issue no. 4. Tel-Aviv, December 27, 1942. Accompanied by many illustrations and several photographs. Two of the illustrations are signed in the plate by Nachum Gutman.
2. "The Third Company, the 2nd Hebrew Regiment of the Palestinian Regiments, 1941-1943" (Hebrew). Issue no. 1. [1943].
3. " Jewish Transportation Unit, the News Broadcast of the '468' General Transportation Unit, a weekly" (Hebrew). 26 issues. January 8 to December 17, 1943. (issues 1-2, 7-9, 21, 27, 31-33, 36-45, 49-50, 60-61, 63-65).
Enclosed: a paper leaf with a printed illustration; two additional copies of the title page of one of the issues.
A total of 28 issues. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Several issues are in fair condition, printed on thin paper with long tears. Some leaves are possibly missing from a few issues.
The journals provide much information on the activities of the companies and units, the course of the war and the life of the Jewish soldiers in Europe. Many of them are accompanied by illustrations. In the collection:
1. "The Infantry, from the Buffs – for the Hebrew Regiments, Journal of the 2nd Company, the First Hebrew Regiment, the Palestinian Regiment" (Hebrew). Issue no. 4. Tel-Aviv, December 27, 1942. Accompanied by many illustrations and several photographs. Two of the illustrations are signed in the plate by Nachum Gutman.
2. "The Third Company, the 2nd Hebrew Regiment of the Palestinian Regiments, 1941-1943" (Hebrew). Issue no. 1. [1943].
3. " Jewish Transportation Unit, the News Broadcast of the '468' General Transportation Unit, a weekly" (Hebrew). 26 issues. January 8 to December 17, 1943. (issues 1-2, 7-9, 21, 27, 31-33, 36-45, 49-50, 60-61, 63-65).
Enclosed: a paper leaf with a printed illustration; two additional copies of the title page of one of the issues.
A total of 28 issues. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Several issues are in fair condition, printed on thin paper with long tears. Some leaves are possibly missing from a few issues.
Category
Jewish Enlistment to the British Army – WWI and WWII
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
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Collection of documents – letters, poems, skits, and other items, from the estate of Hananya Ratzkovsky, a soldier from Haifa in the Entertainments National Service Association – ENSA, who served in the Royal Engineering Corps in the Middle East. Italy, Libya, Palestine (and elsewhere?), 1942-1945. Hebrew, a little English and Italian.
A varied collection, including personal letters sent to Ratzkovsky, some of them by friends who were also involved in cultural affairs in the Hebrew units of the British Army, letters sent to him by his parents and letters he sent to his parents, alongside documents related to his work in the ENSA: poems written by soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, a parody of the eighth field army as well as songs and skits about soldiers' lives, a handwritten leaf – a eulogy for a female soldier named Ofra who died in the Libyan desert (1943), songs for sing-alongs copied on notes or typewritten, letters sent by children from Palestine to the soldiers of the brigade, a skit titled "A Hebrew Company in the Desert", by Electrical & Mechanical coy. 544, together with female soldiers from coy. 519 (typewritten), bulletin no. 1 (internal) of Electrical & Mechanical coy. 544 and additional items.
A total of more than 100 documents. Condition varies, fair-poor. Severe dampness damage. Stains and wear. Some of the leaves are torn or partly missing.
See next item.
A varied collection, including personal letters sent to Ratzkovsky, some of them by friends who were also involved in cultural affairs in the Hebrew units of the British Army, letters sent to him by his parents and letters he sent to his parents, alongside documents related to his work in the ENSA: poems written by soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, a parody of the eighth field army as well as songs and skits about soldiers' lives, a handwritten leaf – a eulogy for a female soldier named Ofra who died in the Libyan desert (1943), songs for sing-alongs copied on notes or typewritten, letters sent by children from Palestine to the soldiers of the brigade, a skit titled "A Hebrew Company in the Desert", by Electrical & Mechanical coy. 544, together with female soldiers from coy. 519 (typewritten), bulletin no. 1 (internal) of Electrical & Mechanical coy. 544 and additional items.
A total of more than 100 documents. Condition varies, fair-poor. Severe dampness damage. Stains and wear. Some of the leaves are torn or partly missing.
See next item.
Category
Jewish Enlistment to the British Army – WWI and WWII
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $100
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A wooden suitcase with a leather carrying strap, which belonged to a Jewish soldier in The Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). [ca. mid-1940s].
The name of the soldier, "H. Ratzkovsky", and the name of his unit, "Pal. ENSA" are handwritten on the outside lid of the suitcase. The names of forty five cities and sites in Italy, North Africa and Palestine bare handwritten, in pencil, on the inside lid of the suitcase.
The ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association) operated under the British Army during World War II and was responsible for the providing entertainment for British soldiers in the various fronts. After the establishment of the Jewish Brigade, the ENSA established the band "MeEin Zeh" ("The Palestinians" as it was called in English), which performed for Jewish soldiers in Europe and the Middle East. Presumably, this was the suitcase of props of one of the members of the band, who documented on its lid the various cities in which he performed.
Enclosed: two ranks of Lance corporal of the British Army, and an embroidered shoulder tag with the inscription "Palestine".
17X32X38 cm. Good-fair condition. The wood and the leather strap are worn and scuffed. The key is missing.
See previous item.
The name of the soldier, "H. Ratzkovsky", and the name of his unit, "Pal. ENSA" are handwritten on the outside lid of the suitcase. The names of forty five cities and sites in Italy, North Africa and Palestine bare handwritten, in pencil, on the inside lid of the suitcase.
The ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association) operated under the British Army during World War II and was responsible for the providing entertainment for British soldiers in the various fronts. After the establishment of the Jewish Brigade, the ENSA established the band "MeEin Zeh" ("The Palestinians" as it was called in English), which performed for Jewish soldiers in Europe and the Middle East. Presumably, this was the suitcase of props of one of the members of the band, who documented on its lid the various cities in which he performed.
Enclosed: two ranks of Lance corporal of the British Army, and an embroidered shoulder tag with the inscription "Palestine".
17X32X38 cm. Good-fair condition. The wood and the leather strap are worn and scuffed. The key is missing.
See previous item.
Category
Jewish Enlistment to the British Army – WWI and WWII
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