Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
The Scroll of Slaughter – Eliezer David Rosenthal – Three Parts, 1927-1930 / Photograph of Four Children who Survived the Pogrom in Teofipol, 1919
Opening: $300
Unsold
"The Scroll of Slaughter, material on the history of the pogroms and the slaughter of the Jews in Ukraine, Greater Russia and Belarus", by Eliezer David Rosenthal. Jerusalem-Tel-Aviv: "Chavurah", (1927-1930). Three parts in three volumes. Hebrew.
The book The Scroll of Slaughterwas a one-man enterprise of the educator and writer Eliezer David Rosenthal (1856-1932), who, after World War I, wandered between Jewish towns in Eastern Europe, gathering witness accounts from hundreds of survivors of pogroms and massacres. He alphabetically arranged the accounts he had collected according to the name of the town; the work was then smuggled from the USSR to Palestine in parts. In Palestine, the manuscript was handled by an editorial staff headed by Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehoshua Hana Rawnitzki and Alter Druyanow, who printed these volumes. Due to Rosenthal's death, the printing of the series was stopped before its completion; the three volumes published contain entries starting with the Hebrew letters aleph to tet only.
Volume I (parts I-II): [4], 111, [3], 127 pp. Volume II (second part only): [3], 127 pp. Volume III (third part): [2], 164 pp. approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Some stains and blemishes. Closed or open tears to several leaves (slightly affecting text on one leaf); open tear across the lower margins of the title page of the third volume (not affecting text). Inked stamps. Handwritten notation on one of the pages. New fabric bindings (the original front cover of the first volume is mounted on the new binding).
Enclosed: a photograph of four children who had survived the pogrom in Teofipol (Ukraine). Captioned by hand on verso: "The wounded of the Teofipol (Tshan) pogrom" (Hebrew), and dated 29.9.19 (the date is partly erased and difficult to read).
The Jewish community of Teofipol (Yiddish: Tshan) is considered one of the most ancient in the Volhynia region. In 1919, in the midst of the Russian civil war, a unit of the Red Army camped in the town, and its soldiers, alongside local Ukranian residents, began looting Jewish houses. When the Jews tried to resist a pogrom started, during which hundreds of Jews were wounded and dozens murdered.
Approx. 10.5X16 cm. Good-fair condition. Blemishes, tears to edges; one corner missing. Long tear across the photograph, partly restored.
The book The Scroll of Slaughterwas a one-man enterprise of the educator and writer Eliezer David Rosenthal (1856-1932), who, after World War I, wandered between Jewish towns in Eastern Europe, gathering witness accounts from hundreds of survivors of pogroms and massacres. He alphabetically arranged the accounts he had collected according to the name of the town; the work was then smuggled from the USSR to Palestine in parts. In Palestine, the manuscript was handled by an editorial staff headed by Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehoshua Hana Rawnitzki and Alter Druyanow, who printed these volumes. Due to Rosenthal's death, the printing of the series was stopped before its completion; the three volumes published contain entries starting with the Hebrew letters aleph to tet only.
Volume I (parts I-II): [4], 111, [3], 127 pp. Volume II (second part only): [3], 127 pp. Volume III (third part): [2], 164 pp. approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Some stains and blemishes. Closed or open tears to several leaves (slightly affecting text on one leaf); open tear across the lower margins of the title page of the third volume (not affecting text). Inked stamps. Handwritten notation on one of the pages. New fabric bindings (the original front cover of the first volume is mounted on the new binding).
Enclosed: a photograph of four children who had survived the pogrom in Teofipol (Ukraine). Captioned by hand on verso: "The wounded of the Teofipol (Tshan) pogrom" (Hebrew), and dated 29.9.19 (the date is partly erased and difficult to read).
The Jewish community of Teofipol (Yiddish: Tshan) is considered one of the most ancient in the Volhynia region. In 1919, in the midst of the Russian civil war, a unit of the Red Army camped in the town, and its soldiers, alongside local Ukranian residents, began looting Jewish houses. When the Jews tried to resist a pogrom started, during which hundreds of Jews were wounded and dozens murdered.
Approx. 10.5X16 cm. Good-fair condition. Blemishes, tears to edges; one corner missing. Long tear across the photograph, partly restored.
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