Collection of documents and photographs from teacher Yitzchak Gur-Aryeh (Pikengur). Erez Israel and Eastern Europe, 1910’s-40’s.
Gur-Aryeh was born in Volhynie in 1889, he moved to Israel in 1923 and passed away in Tel-Aviv in 1957. Learned at the Brisk Yeshiva in Lithuania and at the Odessa Yeshiva around the time of Klausner and Bialik; graduated from the Petersburg Hebrew Academy. Began studying law at the University of Odessa, but was forced to flee Odessa and drop his studies due to “the political events affecting Russia”. Taught at the Tel-Aviv High School of Business and authored several pamphlets.
The collection includes: 40 photographs, most of which are group photos taken with the schoolchildren and are glued on cardboard; some photos were taken before he moved to Israel; 28 various documents including: letters, handwritten Geography and Eastern European History notes, a membership certificate from the “Beit-Am” company, the program of the 20th Zionistic Congress, a review of “Shir-Ha-Shirim” with illustrations by artist Ze’ev Raban, an admission ticket to the first convention of the Hebrew Teachers of Russia (1917); 4 printed booklets authored by Gur-Aryeh.
About 70 items total, varying sizes and condition.

Mein Blaues Klavier [My Blue Piano], Else Lasker Schüler. Jerusalem: “Tarshish”, 1943. First edition.
The author’s last book published during her lifetime. Printed by Dr. Moshe Spitzer's “Tarshish” publishing house with the publisher’s typical outstanding quality and design. An un-numbered copy from a limited edition of 330 copies. The cover is illustrated by the author. [2], 45pp, 22cm. Good condition, except for the detached and partially-missing spine (characteristic to all the copies of this edition). The remainder of the spine is enclosed for restoration purposes.

Bulletin of the Institute for the Research of Hebrew Literature. Berlin and Jerusalem: Schocken, 1933-1945. Six volumes. First volume partly in German, the others in Hebrew only.
The Institute for the Research of Hebrew Poetry, founded in Berlin in 1930 by Shlomo Zalman Schocken, was headed by Haim Brody. Amongst its members were Menachem Zulay and David Yellin. Of thousands of poetry manuscripts found in different Genizot, the institute printed the works of the leading early poets (Ibn Ezra, Rabbi Yehudah HaLevy, Rabbi Meir Abulafia and others), combined with an extensive research of writing styles and the Hebrew language.
Six volumes: 197; 398; 225; 304; 316; 348pp, 23cm. Good condition. Slight moth damage to the bindings.

Shay Shel Safrut, the literary supplement to the Palestine News, edited by S. Ben Zion. Cairo, 1918-1919. "Twenty issues, given as a prize to the weekly 'Hadashot MeHaAretz' 1918-1919". Contributors include: Mordechai Temkin, Ya'akov Kopilevitch, Ya'akov Steinberg, Yehuda Burla, Israel Dushman and others. Volume, 29cm. Good condition, stains. Worn cardboard binding. From the collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman.