Auction 91 Part 1 Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
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![Еврейская Жизнь [Evreyskaya Zhizn – Jewish Life], Jewish-Zionist periodical. Saint Petersburg, January 1904 – March 1907 (all](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale91/92.jpg "\"Jewish Life\", Russian-Language Jewish-Zionist Periodical – Saint Pete")
Jewish-Zionist periodical featuring Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ahad Ha'am (Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg), Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich), I. L. Peretz, Menachem Ussishkin, Israel Zangwill, and many others. Some issues feature pictures of works by Ephraim Moses Lilien, Lesser Ury and others (plates).
First year of publication (1904), issues 1-12; second year (1905), issues 1-12; third year (1906), issues 1-12; fourth year (1907), issues 1-3 (missing issue no. 4). 37 volumes, 22 cm. Condition varies (overall good condition). New bindings. The volumes were not thoroughly examined, and are being sold as is.
Brochure advertising the upcoming publication of a new newspaper – "Der Fraynd", the first daily Yiddish newspaper in Tsarist Russia, edited by Shaul Ginzburg and Shabtai Rappaport. The brochure features a short manifesto, a list of the newspaper's sections, and a list of contributors, including Hayim Nahman Bialik, Mendele Mocher Sforim, I.L. Peretz, Joseph Klausner, and others. A text in Russian and a censorship authorization (dated 1902) on last leaf.
[2] ff. (four printed pages), 45 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Fold lines. Long tears along fold lines, and minor marginal tears.
The paper was published by Ephraim London (father of the future socialist congressman Meyer London), owner of a small printing shop in the Lower East Side. The editor was Abba Breslavsky.
8 pp, approx. 56 cm. Good-fair condition. Leaves detached. Fold lines. Creases and stains. Tears to edges and fold lines. First leaf split in two along fold line.
An almost complete set of issues from all nineteen years of publication of the monthly The New Word (missing issues 7-8 of vol. VI and issues 4 and 10 of vol. XVII)
Enclosed: three supplements to The New Word: Labor Unions, supplement to vol. IV, issue 9 (1917); and two souvenir issues from annual conventions of the Independent Workmen's Circle.
More than 200 issues, in four volumes, approx. 38 cm. Condition varies. All leaves loose, detached from bindings. Brittle paper. Tears, some long. Stains. Library stamps.
The issues were not thoroughly examined, and are being sold as is
18 issues, bound together: • Vol. 1 (1935-1936), issues 1-3; 5-8; 11-12. • Vol. 2 (1936), issues 2-4; 10. • Vol. 3 (1937), issue 2. • Vol. IV (1938), issues 3-4; 8-9. With illustrations and caricatures by Yosl Cutler, Zuni Maud and others.
Approx. 30 cm. Condition varies. Creases and stains. Some damp damage. Leaves 15-16 and 17-18 of the June 1935 issue were cut; top part missing. Tears to some leaves, some repaired with acid free tape. Some leaves trimmed, with damage to text. Punch holes to inner margins, with minor damage to text. New binding.
Mimegraphed typescripts; small illustrations in some issues.
The issues feature news from Palestine and from the Jewish DP camps; articles by Hugo Mantel, the Jewish chaplain attached to the troops; a letter to the US president regarding the situation in Palestine; and more.
11 issues: Vol. I, issues 3, 7, 9, 10; Vol. II, issues 1-7. Approx. 27 cm. Good condition. Thin, brittle paper. Closed and opens tears to edges of some leaves (mostly minor, not affecting text). Some leaves detached.
Enclosed: • Additional copies of three issues. • Two copies of issue no. 8 (August 3, 1945), printed on different, larger paper (later reprints?).
Approx. 70 issues, in two volumes, one with issues from 1904-1905 and one with issues from 1912-1914. Pictures and illustrations in some issues.
Approx. 38 cm. Condition varies. Overall fair condition. Some issues in poor condition – brittle paper, closed and open tears. Issues loose, detached from bindings.
1. Jewish Life. Editor: Morris Myer. Issue no. 1. Published by the Jewish Times, London, March 1, 1923. Includes an article by Max Nordau titled "The Arab Problem in Palestine" and an illustration by Isaac Lichtenstein.
13, 11 pp., approx. 31 cm. Fair-good condition, Stains and creases. Tears to edges (mostly minor; some mended with tape). Title pages detached, with several open tears.
2. The Jewish Friendly Societies Magazine. Editor: Percy Cohen. First year of publication, issues 1-12, bound together (presumably, no other issues were published). London, January-December 1926.
Rare. Two copies in OCLC.
16 pp. per issue, approx. 27 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Bound together; binding with cloth spine and gilt lettering, slightly worn.
![Ha'ischa, Orgaan van de Joodse Vrouwenraad in Nederland [The Woman: Organ of the Dutch National Council of Jewish Women]. All](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale91/100_1.jpg "Ha'ischa (\"The Woman\") – Organ of the Dutch National Council of Jewish")
![Ha'ischa, Orgaan van de Joodse Vrouwenraad in Nederland [The Woman: Organ of the Dutch National Council of Jewish Women]. All](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale91/100_2.jpg "Ha'ischa (\"The Woman\") – Organ of the Dutch National Council of Jewish")
Ha'ischa, Orgaan van de Joodse Vrouwenraad in Nederland [The Woman: Organ of the Dutch National Council of Jewish Women]. All issues published in the years 1932-1939, except issue no. 2, 1938 (95 issues, in seven volumes). Amsterdam: 1932-1939. Dutch.
Among the contributors to the journal were Henrietta Szold, Else Lasker-Schüler, Anna Polak, and others.
Many articles are dedicated to Palestine, to Jewish philosophy and Hebrew literature; some articles deal with the rising antisemitism in Europe. The issue of September, 1938, features an advertisement announcing a fundraising campaign for the benefit of Jewish refugees in the Netherlands, illustrated by the artist Fré Cohen (1903-1943).
95 issues, in 7 volumes. Approx. 27 cm. Condition varies. Stains. Open tears to several leaves (some leaves cut, with loss).
![Schlemiel, Jüdische Blätter für Humor und Kunst [Schlemiel, Jewish paper for humor and art]. Berlin: Welt, 1919-1920. Issu](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale91/101_1.jpg "\"Schlemiel\" – Humorous Artistic Periodical – Issues 1-24 – Berlin, 191")
![Schlemiel, Jüdische Blätter für Humor und Kunst [Schlemiel, Jewish paper for humor and art]. Berlin: Welt, 1919-1920. Issu](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale91/101_2.jpg "\"Schlemiel\" – Humorous Artistic Periodical – Issues 1-24 – Berlin, 191")
![Schlemiel, Jüdische Blätter für Humor und Kunst [Schlemiel, Jewish paper for humor and art]. Berlin: Welt, 1919-1920. Issu](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale91/101_3.jpg "\"Schlemiel\" – Humorous Artistic Periodical – Issues 1-24 – Berlin, 191")
A volume comprising issues 1-24 of the Jewish satiric periodical "Schlemiel", published in Berlin in 1903-1906 and then again in 1919-1920. The issues feature poems and texts by Else Lasker-Schiller, Shalom Aleichem, Uriel Birnbaum, Max Yungman and others, accompanied by many humorous illustrations by artist Menachem Birenboim [Birenbaum] as well as illustrations by Uriel Birenbaum, Hermann Struck, Jacob Steinhardt and others.
VII, [1], 1-60, [2], 66-322 pp. Missing one leaf (pp. 61-62; advertisements at end of issue no. 4), 23.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes. Minor tears to edges of some leaves. General title page detached. Binding restored (new spine, with part of the original spine laid down); new endpapers. Inked stamp (on a blank page at beginning of volume).
![Der Chaver [The Friend], a monthly for children. First year of publication, issues 1-12. Vilna (Vilnius): Central Organizatio](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale91/102_1.jpg "\"Der Chaver\", Periodical for Children – Vilnius, 1920-1921 – Bound Vol")
![Der Chaver [The Friend], a monthly for children. First year of publication, issues 1-12. Vilna (Vilnius): Central Organizatio](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale91/102_2.jpg "\"Der Chaver\", Periodical for Children – Vilnius, 1920-1921 – Bound Vol")
![Der Chaver [The Friend], a monthly for children. First year of publication, issues 1-12. Vilna (Vilnius): Central Organizatio](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale91/102_3.jpg "\"Der Chaver\", Periodical for Children – Vilnius, 1920-1921 – Bound Vol")
Der Chaver [The Friend], a monthly for children. First year of publication, issues 1-12. Vilna (Vilnius): Central Organization of Yiddish Schools in in Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus (Tsentrale Yidishe Shul Organizatsye), 1920-1921. Yiddish.
The issues feature poems, stories and articles on a variety of subjects – history, science, art, literature, geography, and more. In-text pictures and illustrations.
For additional information, see: Adina Bar-El, Under the Little Green Trees, Yiddish and Hebrew Children's Periodicals in Poland 1918-1939, Jerusalem, 2006, pp. 193-272.
12 issues (September 1920 – December 1921), bound together, with the original covers. 575, [1] pp (covers not included in pagination), approx. 21 cm. Good condition. Stains. Brittle paper. Some minor marginal tears. New binding.
The Book of Bereshit and the first chapters of the Book of Shemot – from a bibliophile edition of the Five Books of the Torah, published by the Soncino-Gesellschaft, [Berlin, 1931].
In 1931-1933, the Soncino Gesellschaft der Freunde des Jüdischen Buches ("Soncino Society of Friends of the Jewish Book" in Germany, published a bibliophile edition of the Five Books of the Torah. The edition was printed in 850 copies; the type and initials were designed by Marcus Behmer.
The Book of Bereshit and chapters 1-3 of the Book of Shemot were printed first, followed by the rest of the books of the Torah (Soncino-Gesellschaft intended to go on to publish the rest of the books of the Bible, yet the drastic political changes in Germany brought the project to an abrupt end).
Enclosed is a prospectus (4 pages) in German, about the present edition (1931).
The Book of Bereshit is complete; Book of Shemot – chapter 1 to chapter 3, verse 3. With general title page for the Five Books of the Torah.
[36] ff., 40 cm. Good condition. Stains. Browning to first and last page. Blank card boards (stained), partially detached. Without spine.
Enclosed prospectus: [1] folded leaf (4 pages), 40 cm. Stains. Browning to first and last page. Minor blemishes.