Issue of the newspaper "Neuste Nachrichten – Jedioth Chadashoth" [Latest News], "Special Edition for The Declaration of the State", edited by Dr. I. Lilienfeld. Tel Aviv, 16.5.1948. Hebrew and German.
The main headline of the issue announces: "Long Live the State of Israel! The Laws of the White Paper have been Revoked! Free Immigration has Started!". The issue features the Scroll of Independence, a manifest "to all residents of the State of Israel" by the temporary government, and various news items.
8 pp (two folded sheets of paper, detached from each other), 47.5 cm. Fair condition. Creases and fold lines. Numerous tears to edges and fold lines, some affecting the text. Many stains and foxing.

Fundraising album, presumably presented to would-be donors to the building of the faculty of science of the Hebrew University. [Jerusalem], 1959. English.
Landscape format album; prefaced by a large panoramic photograph of the developing University Campus on Givat Ram.
Three leaves of text list the buildings that are required for the various departments of the faculty - a center of pure and applied physics, a center of pure and applied chemistry and an institute of biochemistry and biophysics. The text addresses the great need of Israel for scientists and teachers and the shortage of space that prevents the university from accepting many of the applicants to the faculty of science. Nine plates of architectural blueprints of the buildings of the University campus follow the text, separated by three transparent pages listing the uses of the various buildings. The binding is embossed with the logo of the University.
After Israel's War of Independence, during which the campus of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus became an enclave in Jordanian territory, the University moved to Western Jerusalem. At first, it was located in the Terra Santa building and other temporary locations and in 1953, the construction of a new campus on Givat Ram began; the works continued until 1967.
[1] panoramic photograph in two sections, [3] ff. of text, [9] blueprint plates + [3] transparent pages, 33X51 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Blemishes and stains on binding. The binding is slightly loose.

Flag of the Ramle Branch of the Alliance of the Israeli Communist Youth. Ramle, [ca. 1950s and 1960s].
Flag, hand-embroidered onto pink fabric. In the center, the emblem of the movement – the Red Star encircled by two olive branches surmounted by the flag of the State of Israel. The movement's Hebrew acronym – "Banki" – is embroidered in Hebrew and Arabic letters above the inscription "Ramle Branch" (Hebrew).
The Alliance of the Israeli Communist Youth (Hebrew acronym: Banki) was established in 1924 by a small group of students from Jerusalem. The movement espoused a Marxist-Leninist ideology, rejected Zionism, and was the only youth organization in which Jews and Arabs were jointly active. Its members identified with the Israeli Communist Party (Hebrew acronym: Maki), and when that party began showing an affinity to Zionism in the early years of the State, members of Banki expressed similar sympathies. But when, in 1965, Maki was torn apart by divisions over the issue of Zionism, the Banki youth movement sided with the rival, anti-Zionist faction and its like-minded break-off, the Rakah party.
This particular flag – displaying the organization's emblem in conjunction with the Israeli flag – evidently represents the brief period when the movement identified with Zionist values.
Approx. 77X107 cm (uneven edges). Good condition. Minor stains. Blemishes and minor unraveling to fabric and fringes.

Grammatica, Quatuor Linguarum Hebraicae, Chaldaicae, Syriacae et Arabicae, Harmonica [Harmonic Grammar of Four Languages, (specifically) Hebrew, Aramaic, Syrian Aramaic, and Arabic]. By Johann Heinrich Hottinger. Heidelberg: Adriani Wyngaerden, 1659.
A textbook by the Orientalist Johann Heinrich Hottinger, presenting the rules of grammar of four of the most important languages of the Near East.
Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667) was one of the foremost Hebraic and Oriental studies scholars of the 17th-century "Age of Reason." In the process of getting his books printed, Hottinger found it necessary to hunt down print types for the letters of Oriental alphabets, which were highly uncommon in northern Europe in those days. He employed a number of different strategies; among other things, he attempted to buy types from the printer Wilhelm Schickard and from the Orientalist Theodor Hackspan, and successfully purchased the types used in preparing the Paris Polyglot Bible. In the end, he managed to convince two printers in the town of Heidelberg, Samuel Brown and Adrian Weyngard, to equip their printing houses with Aramaic and Arabic types. Thus, several of his works were printed and published in Heidelberg.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Latin term "Harmonica" (i.e., harmonic), which appears in the book title, was used to describe comparative dictionaries and grammar textbooks that presented a number of different, related languages "under one roof." Specifically, they would focus on particular words that had similar forms or identical roots in all the languages in question (thus creating "harmony," so to speak). Such books were highly regarded in the philological study of Oriental languages, insofar as knowledge of the forms of the letters of the alphabets of these languages and their rules of grammar was restricted to only a few chosen individuals in Europe in those days.
[6], 211, [1] pp., approx. 19 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes. Closed and open tears to edges of several leaves (some restored; not affecting text). Trimmed margins, affecting text in some leaves. First gathering detached. No binding.
Not in NLI.

Sexcenta & tredecim praecepta mosaica [The 613 Precepts According to Maimonides], translated by Johann Leusden. Utrecht: Francisci Halma, 1686. Hebrew and Latin.
Bilingual edition (arranged with Hebrew and Latin aligned facing each other, on opposite pages) of Maimonides's listing of the 613 mitzvot (precepts), excerpted from the introduction to his seminal halakhic work, the "Mishneh Torah." Translated by the Calvinist Orientalist and philologist Johann Leusden (1624-1699).
[3], 56 pp., approx. 19 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. No binding.