First issue of "Pshita - Useful Literary Review For All," edited by Meir Wieseltier with Yona Wollach, Yair Hurvitz and others. The review was published in 1967, immediately following the Six-Day War, featuring wild, biting humor. It featured a poem by Wieseltier, one by Wallach (Lo Lebazbez Et Chodesh May), as well as a prose piece, "A Class in History," by Abraham Heffner, and many more satirical and humoristic pieces, as well as illustrations. The cover features a portrait incorporating Michaelangelo's Moses with Moshe Dayan and Rabbi Shlomo Goren. The editorial states that "Pshita's first assumption is common to all successful Hebrew publications… that the readers are insensitive idiots that will purchase anything offered as long as one demands payment in cash…
Not in National Library, or in other libraries in Israel.
49 cm. Fair condition. Worming and other damage by insects, with losses, but without damage to text. Folding line. Few stains, foxing and wear.

Dedication by the poet Zelda [Mishkovsky], (1914-1984) to the orthodox Jerusalem poet Lea Tanzman on her 1978 collection of poems "Pnai / HaCarmel Ha Ee Nireh / Al Tirhak," Zelda wrote: "To Leah, from Zelda."
Very good condition. Tanzman's ex-libris on half title page.

"The photo at the display window, Yehuda Amichai (part of the novel 'Skull on the Water,' soon to be published)."
Thirteen typewritten pages, a carbon copy with many handwritten corrections and changes, eventually published as the sixth chapter of Amichai's novel Lo MeAchshav Lo MiKan (Not of this Time, Not of this Place), published in 1963 (pages 35-46).
Some of the corrections are in Amichai's handwriting, others are in Ephraim Broide's handwriting. Broide was the editor of literary periodical Molad, and received the chapter for publication. This draft is different in many details from the final version of the chapter in the novel.
At the time the chapter was written, Amichai's working title for the novel was "Skull on the Water," the name deriving from a Mishna in Pirke Avot which is quoted on the book's half title page (see Hebrew). Eventually Amichai decided to call the novel Not of this Time, Not of this Place.
Written in the first person, this poetic novel is a juxtaposition of two possible, parallel realities, unravelling simultaneously. Yoel arrived in Palestine as child, joined the Palmach and fought in the 1948 War of Independence. In one of the parallel stories he returns to his hometown in Germany to avenge the death of a girl he loved who was murdered in the holocaust, while in the parallel story, he remains in Jerusalem, to cope with his unsuccessful and search for a new love.
13 pages, carbon copy of the period. Good condition, creases, few stains, slight damage to last pages.

Four items related to David Avidan, three in his handwriting.
1. Detailed comments concerning typesetting, apparently for one of his books. The letter is addressed to 'Mr. Eckstein,' it is all in Avidan's handwriting, in green pen, with a full signature at the bottom. The comments are written on the reverse of a loose cover of a notebook.
2. Typewritten letter on Avidan's stationery, addressed to Gabriel Moked, and signed twice, full signature and initials. Verso written in Avidan's handwriting - "to Gabriel Moked". Creases and slight tears.
3. Letter addressed in Avidan's handwriting to Gabriel Moked, in green pen. On the envelope Avidan wrote "in case I don't come to Stern's - call me, 17:00." Instead of writing the name of sender, Avidan applied a sticker with his details, but it is missing. Also on the envelope, in Moked's handwriting - "a note to me from Avidan." Filing holes, creases and folding lines.
4. Envelope of "David Avidan - 30th Century Ltd," addressed to Gabriel Moked, typewritten. The word "by hand" is written on the envelope, apparently in Avidan's handwriting. Filing holes, tears, adhesive tape and staples.