Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Displaying 1 - 12 of 17
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Our master Rabbi Shalom Shakhna, son of Rabbi Avraham of Copenhagen, 1827". Portrait photo in lithographic print, with printed signature of the artist M. Mendel. Copenhagen (Denmark), 1827. The photograph features the rabbi during a sermon he gave for Parashat Va-Yechi, with his name written on the podium. Rabbi Shalom Shakhna served as"apprentice rabbi" under his father Rabbi Avraham son of Rabbi Gedaliah who filled the Copenhagen rabbinical office for 36 years and passed away during Fall 1827.
18.5 X 26.5 cm. Good condition, stains.
18.5 X 26.5 cm. Good condition, stains.
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $600
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Picture of the Rebbe Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, author of the Tanya. Oil on canvas, unsigned, not dated.
Impressive oil painting based upon the famous picture of the Rebbe. 45X55 cm, within 51.5X61 cm. frame. Fair-good condition. Damages (peeling paint) in several places.
Impressive oil painting based upon the famous picture of the Rebbe. 45X55 cm, within 51.5X61 cm. frame. Fair-good condition. Damages (peeling paint) in several places.
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $300
Unsold
Portrait of Rebbe Rabbi Chaim Halberstam author of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. Oil paint on plywood, signed on corner B. Turek. [Late 19th century / early 20th century].
Painted according to famous picture in which the Rebbe is studying from a book.
31X24.5 cm., frame 43.5X37. Fair-good condition. Damages and peeling of paint, see picture.
Painted according to famous picture in which the Rebbe is studying from a book.
31X24.5 cm., frame 43.5X37. Fair-good condition. Damages and peeling of paint, see picture.
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
Including buyer's premium
Rabbi Chaim of Sanz, drawing by Lazar Krestin, based on the only known picture of the Divrei Chaim. Printed on a postcard.
Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (1797-1876), author of the Divrei Chaim and founder of the Sanz Hassidism.
9X14 cm postcard. Good condition. Shana Tova ink stamp in Hebrew and English.
Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (1797-1876), author of the Divrei Chaim and founder of the Sanz Hassidism.
9X14 cm postcard. Good condition. Shana Tova ink stamp in Hebrew and English.
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $700
Sold for: $875
Including buyer's premium
"Photograph of the true Gaon Tzaddik Yesod Olam Rabbi Baruch Dov Leibowitz - by Knesset Beit Yitzchak Yeshiva in Kaminetz of Lithuania Poland". In its original cardboard cover, with the photographers sticker:
KERRS STUDIO - 151 RIVINGTON ST. NEW YORK. [US, c. 1929].
Rabbi Baruch Ber traveled to the US at the end of the 1920s, to cover the expenses of Kaminetz Yeshiva, and stayed there for two years. Apparently, the photograph was taken at that time.
Photograph size c. 20X25 cm. Cardboard maximum size c. 25X35 cm. Good condition, stains and wear to cardboard cover.
KERRS STUDIO - 151 RIVINGTON ST. NEW YORK. [US, c. 1929].
Rabbi Baruch Ber traveled to the US at the end of the 1920s, to cover the expenses of Kaminetz Yeshiva, and stayed there for two years. Apparently, the photograph was taken at that time.
Photograph size c. 20X25 cm. Cardboard maximum size c. 25X35 cm. Good condition, stains and wear to cardboard cover.
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $150
Unsold
A printed photograph of Rebbe Yeshaya Steiner of Kerestir (called R' Yeshaya'le Kerestirir). [Hungary ? Beginning of 20th century].
The famous segula is well known, to hang his picture in the home as a protection from mice.
33 cm. Fair condition, stains and tears.
The famous segula is well known, to hang his picture in the home as a protection from mice.
33 cm. Fair condition, stains and tears.
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $120
Unsold
Photograph of"Rabbi Shmuel Fried, Vilna".
The Ga'on Rabbi Shmuel Fried (1869-1941, Otzar HaRabbanim 19327), born in Volozhin to his father Rabbi Chaim Hillel Fried, among the leaders of the Volozhin Yeshiva, from the family of"The Rabbi", grandsons of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin. In 1906 was appointed as rabbi in the suburb of Vilna and from 1910 served as member of"Va'ad HaRabbanim" and the Beit Din in Vilna. For additional information related to him see attached material.
14 cm. (size including passe-partout: 18 cm.) Good condition.
The Ga'on Rabbi Shmuel Fried (1869-1941, Otzar HaRabbanim 19327), born in Volozhin to his father Rabbi Chaim Hillel Fried, among the leaders of the Volozhin Yeshiva, from the family of"The Rabbi", grandsons of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin. In 1906 was appointed as rabbi in the suburb of Vilna and from 1910 served as member of"Va'ad HaRabbanim" and the Beit Din in Vilna. For additional information related to him see attached material.
14 cm. (size including passe-partout: 18 cm.) Good condition.
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $200
Sold for: $300
Including buyer's premium
Two photographs of young men, students of Knesset Yisrael-Slobodka Yeshiva in Hebron and Slabodka. [c. 1930].
1) Photographs of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner and Rabbi Dov Zochovsky and another young man. [Photographed in Jerusalem - "Aroshkes Photographers Eretz Yisrael].
2) Picture of five young men, of a group of men who traveled to study in Slabodka Yeshiva abroad in 1930 (after the 1929 pogrom). Rabbi Dov Zochovsky, [Rabbi Eliezer Goldshmidt ?], Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner, Rabbi Moshe Tikochinsky and Rabbi Zevulun Graz. Photographed in Kovno near Slabodka.].
2 photographs, good condition, creases to Photograph 1 and glue marks on reverse side of Photograph 2.
1) Photographs of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner and Rabbi Dov Zochovsky and another young man. [Photographed in Jerusalem - "Aroshkes Photographers Eretz Yisrael].
2) Picture of five young men, of a group of men who traveled to study in Slabodka Yeshiva abroad in 1930 (after the 1929 pogrom). Rabbi Dov Zochovsky, [Rabbi Eliezer Goldshmidt ?], Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner, Rabbi Moshe Tikochinsky and Rabbi Zevulun Graz. Photographed in Kovno near Slabodka.].
2 photographs, good condition, creases to Photograph 1 and glue marks on reverse side of Photograph 2.
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $200
Unsold
Group photograph featuring Yeshiva Bachurs of the"Kenesset Israel" Yeshiva which moved from Hebron to Jerusalem. [Jerusalem 1930's].
Many of the people featured on the photograph later turned into well-known Torah and"Gadlut Adam" [human greatness] Musar figures who followed the Slabodka movement. Among the photographed, it is possible to identify Rabbi David Finkel, Rabbi Hirsch Palai, Rabbi Elimelech Shaulzon (Bar-Shaul) and more.
17.5 X 13 cm. (Size with cardboard 30 X 24 cm). Good condition, tear on the edges, cardboard is damaged.
Many of the people featured on the photograph later turned into well-known Torah and"Gadlut Adam" [human greatness] Musar figures who followed the Slabodka movement. Among the photographed, it is possible to identify Rabbi David Finkel, Rabbi Hirsch Palai, Rabbi Elimelech Shaulzon (Bar-Shaul) and more.
17.5 X 13 cm. (Size with cardboard 30 X 24 cm). Good condition, tear on the edges, cardboard is damaged.
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $200
Sold for: $300
Including buyer's premium
Collection of family pictures and pictures of rabbis of the family members. Volkovinitz and Ostroh. Early 20th century.
Captions on reverse side of pictures. 2 pictures of"The Uncle" Rabbi Shmuel Zilberstein Av Beit Din of Castophol near Robna, (1860-1932)"father of Natan Zilberstein who was injured in Jerusalem and was killed in the 1838 pogroms". Picture of"my uncle - my mother's brother, Rabbi Moshe of Dombrovna - in Serbia". Picture of"The Grandfather, father of father, Rabbi Sho'el [!] Rabbi in Volkovinitz (Ukraine)" and picture of his son"uncle Rabbi Leibish of Volkovinitz near Proskrov".
Number of pictures of the uncle Rabbi (Ya'akov) Fischel and his family members - Rabbi Ya'akov Fischel Feldenkreis (1876-1921), immigrated with his family from Austria (Vohlin) to Petach Tikva in 1920. On the 25th of Nisan 1921 he led a group of 6 pioneers who walked to Jaffa, to protect the Jews of the city during the pogroms; they were all killed on the way. See attached material.
12 pictures, various sizes and conditions. Captions on reverse side of majority of pictures. (One picture includes letter and post stamp from Ostroh from the year 1914).
Captions on reverse side of pictures. 2 pictures of"The Uncle" Rabbi Shmuel Zilberstein Av Beit Din of Castophol near Robna, (1860-1932)"father of Natan Zilberstein who was injured in Jerusalem and was killed in the 1838 pogroms". Picture of"my uncle - my mother's brother, Rabbi Moshe of Dombrovna - in Serbia". Picture of"The Grandfather, father of father, Rabbi Sho'el [!] Rabbi in Volkovinitz (Ukraine)" and picture of his son"uncle Rabbi Leibish of Volkovinitz near Proskrov".
Number of pictures of the uncle Rabbi (Ya'akov) Fischel and his family members - Rabbi Ya'akov Fischel Feldenkreis (1876-1921), immigrated with his family from Austria (Vohlin) to Petach Tikva in 1920. On the 25th of Nisan 1921 he led a group of 6 pioneers who walked to Jaffa, to protect the Jews of the city during the pogroms; they were all killed on the way. See attached material.
12 pictures, various sizes and conditions. Captions on reverse side of majority of pictures. (One picture includes letter and post stamp from Ostroh from the year 1914).
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $180
Sold for: $275
Including buyer's premium
24 portrait photographs and studio photographs of Jewish men and rabbis. Europe, end of 19th century and the 20th century.
9 are early photographs (end of 19th century), from various cities: Stanislav, France, Vienna (one is dated 1881), Cracow (one is dated 1868), Brody, and other places.
14 are photographs from the 20th century, reproductions of photographs from the 19th century and photographs of well-known rabbis, (a photograph of an ancient picture of the Chatam Sofer, etc.).
Varied size and condition.
9 are early photographs (end of 19th century), from various cities: Stanislav, France, Vienna (one is dated 1881), Cracow (one is dated 1868), Brody, and other places.
14 are photographs from the 20th century, reproductions of photographs from the 19th century and photographs of well-known rabbis, (a photograph of an ancient picture of the Chatam Sofer, etc.).
Varied size and condition.
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue
Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
July 13, 2011
Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
Including buyer's premium
26 portrait photographs and studio-photographs of Jewish women, [some in Jewish dress characteristic of Rabbis' wives]. Europe, end of 19th century and the 20th century.
17 are early photographs and from various cities: Pֳ¶styֳ©n, Oostende (Belguim), Vienna, Cracow, Lvov, New York, Pshemishel, Leipzig, Brody and London. Most are pasted on cardboard with photographers' details.
9 are reproductions from the 20th century, of earlier photographs, from 1860 until the end of the 19th century. Varied size and condition.
17 are early photographs and from various cities: Pֳ¶styֳ©n, Oostende (Belguim), Vienna, Cracow, Lvov, New York, Pshemishel, Leipzig, Brody and London. Most are pasted on cardboard with photographers' details.
9 are reproductions from the 20th century, of earlier photographs, from 1860 until the end of the 19th century. Varied size and condition.
Category
Pictures (Photographs and paintings)
Catalogue