Auction 46 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Auction 46 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
July 7, 2015
Opening: $250
Unsold
Real Photo postcard of Rabbi Moshe Ya'akov Ravikov – "the Holy Shoemaker".
On the verso, is his handwritten dedication and signature: "For Ruchama, tzum endeinkung, as a memory from me Moshe Ya'akov Ravikov" [written to his daughter, Ruchama Ravikov].
8.5X13.5 cm. Good condition, stains.
On the verso, is his handwritten dedication and signature: "For Ruchama, tzum endeinkung, as a memory from me Moshe Ya'akov Ravikov" [written to his daughter, Ruchama Ravikov].
8.5X13.5 cm. Good condition, stains.
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Archives and Notebooks – Rabbis, Communities, Organizations
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Auction 46 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
July 7, 2015
Opening: $300
Unsold
Manuscript, Sefer HaBrit, a mohel notebook of Rabbi Yeshaya Shechter. Tel Aviv, 1937-1951.
thick volume, recording approximately 4000 circumcisions performed by the mohel. Attractive, neat writing, arranged in a table containing the name of the boy, his father, the last name, date of birth and date of circumcision.
Elaborately adorned title page: "this is the Sefer HaBrit of the children circumcised by the mohel Yeshaya Shechter…who was appointed to this holy task… in 1941 and as a result of the destruction of German Jewry in 1933-5, I have lost many lists of children I have circumcised in the city of Magdeburg and Essen and their surroundings".
135 written pages. 33 cm. Good condition, stains and minor wear. Light damages to binding.
thick volume, recording approximately 4000 circumcisions performed by the mohel. Attractive, neat writing, arranged in a table containing the name of the boy, his father, the last name, date of birth and date of circumcision.
Elaborately adorned title page: "this is the Sefer HaBrit of the children circumcised by the mohel Yeshaya Shechter…who was appointed to this holy task… in 1941 and as a result of the destruction of German Jewry in 1933-5, I have lost many lists of children I have circumcised in the city of Magdeburg and Essen and their surroundings".
135 written pages. 33 cm. Good condition, stains and minor wear. Light damages to binding.
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Archives and Notebooks – Rabbis, Communities, Organizations
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Auction 46 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
July 7, 2015
Opening: $400
Sold for: $938
Including buyer's premium
An archive of letters sent to Rabbi Yeshaya Shechter who served as a halachic authority in Gladbeck (Germany) and afterward immigrated to Tel Aviv. [Letters from 1917-1938].
Many letters from Jewish German rabbis and community institutes. the list of rabbis includes Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kirshbaum of Frankfurt am Main; Rabbi Moshe Nirenberg, Rabbi Avraham Leib Giberman and Rabbi Kalman Ze'ev Beck of Köln; Rabbi Ya'akov Horowitz of Düsseldorf; Rabbi David Feldman and Rabbi Avraham Yehuda Shmukler of Leipzig; Rabbi Yitzchak Meir of Magdeburg; etc. Letters from the office of "Agudat Rabbanim Rheinland - Westfalen, Duisburg; various institutes in Magdeburg; etc.
Letter from rabbis in other countries: Rabbi Shmuel Brom of Lucerne; Rabbi Yisrael Baruch Ganz of Amsterdam; Rabbi Mordechai Rottenberg of Antwerp; Yitzchak Meir Horchstein of Brussels; Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel of Antwerp; etc. Additional letters: a certificate from the Tel Aviv rabbinate signed by Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Chai Uziel and by Rabbi Amiel; a letter from the Lille (France) rabbinate, etc.
Paper items and other letters, including a stencil printing of "the holy sayings of the Rebbe…of Sadigura on Purim 1931 in the city of Wein", and official stationery of Rabbi Shechter.
Approximately 50 items, varied size and condition.
Many letters from Jewish German rabbis and community institutes. the list of rabbis includes Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kirshbaum of Frankfurt am Main; Rabbi Moshe Nirenberg, Rabbi Avraham Leib Giberman and Rabbi Kalman Ze'ev Beck of Köln; Rabbi Ya'akov Horowitz of Düsseldorf; Rabbi David Feldman and Rabbi Avraham Yehuda Shmukler of Leipzig; Rabbi Yitzchak Meir of Magdeburg; etc. Letters from the office of "Agudat Rabbanim Rheinland - Westfalen, Duisburg; various institutes in Magdeburg; etc.
Letter from rabbis in other countries: Rabbi Shmuel Brom of Lucerne; Rabbi Yisrael Baruch Ganz of Amsterdam; Rabbi Mordechai Rottenberg of Antwerp; Yitzchak Meir Horchstein of Brussels; Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel of Antwerp; etc. Additional letters: a certificate from the Tel Aviv rabbinate signed by Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Chai Uziel and by Rabbi Amiel; a letter from the Lille (France) rabbinate, etc.
Paper items and other letters, including a stencil printing of "the holy sayings of the Rebbe…of Sadigura on Purim 1931 in the city of Wein", and official stationery of Rabbi Shechter.
Approximately 50 items, varied size and condition.
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Archives and Notebooks – Rabbis, Communities, Organizations
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