Lot 371
Three Booklets and a Prayer Leaf – Pogroms in Easterm Europe – 1891-1937
Three booklets and a prayer leaf, printed following pogroms in Eastern Europe.
Berdychiv, Zhitomir, London and Jerusalem, 1891-1937. Hebrew, Yiddish and English.
1. Vas mir zenen un vas vet unz veren? Iber der lage fun unzer falk un zein refuah [Who are we and what will we become? About the state of our nation and the cure], by Y.C. [Yehoshua Hana] Rawnitzki. Berdychiv: Ezra, 1898.
35 pages, 17.5 cm.
2. "Mishne Shivron Oh HaTzlav", "picture of the pogroms against the Jews in recent years", by L. Shapira, translated by Yisrael Shalom Bahoslovsky [Yisrael Yevarachyahu]. Zhitomir :"Eliyahu son of Avraham Kortzov", 1910.
16 pages, 19.5 cm. Uncut sheet without binding.
3. Sefer HaZichronot, by Ya'akov Levanoni. Printed by Choreb, [Jerusalem?, 1937?].
16 pages. 22.5 cm.
4. "Prayer for the Jews of Russia, to be Offered up on the Day of Atonement 5652". London: Wertheimer, Lea and Co., 1891. Hebrew and English.
[1] leaf, folded into two, 21.5 cm.
Condition varies. Overall good-fair condition. Stains, creases and small tears to margins. Booklet no. 1 in fair condition, with open tears to margins of last leaves, some repaired with adhesive tape.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman.
