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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
Opening: $2,800
Sold for: $3,500
Including buyer's premium
Document archive relating to Schutzjuden (Protected Jews) in the town of Gifhorn in northern Germany (near Hanover) from 1717-1868. The archive includes about 150 documents making up hundreds of pages, most handwritten, with a few printed, all in German.
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Central European Jewry
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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
Opening: $400
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1. Document confirmung that the assistant shoemaker Yitzhak Deutschmann was born in Witkowo in 1816, always behaved in a moral and honest fashion and there is no objection of him moving to live in Berlin. In addition – “Prior to 1823 no Jewish birth registrations were conducted in our town.” January 1844.
2. Demand for payment following receipt of permission of live in Berlin. October 1844.
3. Character reference – “The Jewish shoemaker Isaac Deutschmann from Witkowo, district of Bromberg, is being granted citizenship…” Berlin, October 1844.
4. Document of Citizenship to the shoemaker Isaac (Yitzhak) Deutschmann by the mayor and city councilors of Berlin. December 1844.
The papers have various signatures and ink stamps.
Average size - 22x33 cm.
Good condition. Folding lines, stains, small tears.
2. Demand for payment following receipt of permission of live in Berlin. October 1844.
3. Character reference – “The Jewish shoemaker Isaac Deutschmann from Witkowo, district of Bromberg, is being granted citizenship…” Berlin, October 1844.
4. Document of Citizenship to the shoemaker Isaac (Yitzhak) Deutschmann by the mayor and city councilors of Berlin. December 1844.
The papers have various signatures and ink stamps.
Average size - 22x33 cm.
Good condition. Folding lines, stains, small tears.
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Central European Jewry
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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
1. Vollständige Verhandlungen des ersten Vereinigten Preussischen landtages über die Emancipationsfrage der Juden. Berlin, 1847. Prussian parliamentary debate on the question of Jewish emancipation.
462 pages, 23 cm. Very good condition. Stained. Ink stamps. Non original half leather cover.
462 pages, 23 cm. Very good condition. Stained. Ink stamps. Non original half leather cover.
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Central European Jewry
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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
Opening: $200
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“In 1848 – the Rebellion [Revolution],” four handwritten pages, apparently by M.D. Cohen in Grätz (Posen district), Germany. Seven separate entries, dated from 20 March 1848 – 16 May 1848, with descriptions of various military actions that occurred in the city and surrounding areas, and the people’s fear of the street battles. German in Hebrew letters.
Single leaf folded in two, 21 cm.
Good condition. Stains, tears in the margins.
Single leaf folded in two, 21 cm.
Good condition. Stains, tears in the margins.
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Central European Jewry
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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
Opening: $500
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34 invitations by Jewish organizations, mostly from Vienna, 1897-1914.
Invitations to dances, Chanukah, Purim and graduation parties, literature and Jewish political events, lectures etc, from the organizations: Bar Kochba, HaSomir, Achwa, Benei Zion HaKoah, and many more.
Various sizes, very good condition. Some bear folding lines.
Invitations to dances, Chanukah, Purim and graduation parties, literature and Jewish political events, lectures etc, from the organizations: Bar Kochba, HaSomir, Achwa, Benei Zion HaKoah, and many more.
Various sizes, very good condition. Some bear folding lines.
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Central European Jewry
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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
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Seven documents from the Jewish academic Geula organization. Olmütz, Moravia, 1911-1925. Two invitations to organization events, 1911-1912; editions 1-5 of the organization's journal, distributed to its members – 1923-1925. Typewritten and stenciled, with exception of 5th which is printed.
Various sizes, good to very good condition
Various sizes, good to very good condition
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Central European Jewry
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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
Opening: $150
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Book Catalogue in Library of the Jewish Cultural Wing, Olmütz, 1904. (Alphabetisches Bücherzeichnis der Bibliothek der Israelitischen Cultusgemeinde Olmütz.) Olmütz, Moravia, 1904. Alphabetical list of all of the library's books, a great deal of which were in Hebrew.
20, [1] page, 19 cm.
Very good condition.
20, [1] page, 19 cm.
Very good condition.
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Central European Jewry
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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
Opening: $400
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Seven items: regulations and yearbooks of various Jewish organizations in Vienna, 1909-1913, some without dates.
Organizations include: Jüdischen Bevölkerung in Galizien, HaRuach, Jüdische Armenwesen in Wien, Wiener Jüdischer Turnverein, Wiener Zionistische Vereinigung, Zionistischer Zentralverein.
Various Sizes.
Very good condition. Some are creased and bear folding lines.
Organizations include: Jüdischen Bevölkerung in Galizien, HaRuach, Jüdische Armenwesen in Wien, Wiener Jüdischer Turnverein, Wiener Zionistische Vereinigung, Zionistischer Zentralverein.
Various Sizes.
Very good condition. Some are creased and bear folding lines.
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Central European Jewry
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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
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Four regulation and report pamphlets of Jewish organizations: Regulations of the Department of Jewish Culture in Mährisch Ostrau, 1894; Report of Jewish Culture Dept. in Olmütz, Moravia, 1895; Freie Zionistische Vereingung für Böhmen, Prague, 1905; Yearly Report of the Jewish Literary Association in Olmütz, 1910.
Various sizes, very good condition. The pamphlet from Prague is faded and slightly creased.
Various sizes, very good condition. The pamphlet from Prague is faded and slightly creased.
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Central European Jewry
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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
Opening: $500
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22 German Wedding poems, 1896-1935
In Western Europe, Especially in Germany, it has been customary to compose wedding rhyming poems, with humorous contents and sing or read them with folk melodies at wedding meals, in honor of the groom and the bride.
One of the poems in this lot is printed on quality thin paper, inside a golden frame with flowers.
Various sizes. Majority of poems are printed, some are typewritten or handwritten. Good to very good condition.
In Western Europe, Especially in Germany, it has been customary to compose wedding rhyming poems, with humorous contents and sing or read them with folk melodies at wedding meals, in honor of the groom and the bride.
One of the poems in this lot is printed on quality thin paper, inside a golden frame with flowers.
Various sizes. Majority of poems are printed, some are typewritten or handwritten. Good to very good condition.
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Central European Jewry
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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
Opening: $200
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1. Der Jüdische Friedhof, Gustav Cohn. Franzmathe Publishers, Frankfurt am Main, 1930. Three picture-plates with photographs of graves.
52 pages, 21.5 cm. Very good condition. Ex-Libris and signatures; slightly torn spine.
2. Friedhofsschändungen in Deutschland 1923-1932. Berlin, 1932. Desecration of cemeteries in Germany; with photographs.
32 pages, 19.5x13.5 cm. Very good condition.
3. Jüdische gotteshäuser und friedhöfe in Württemberg. Stuttgart, 1932. Includes many photographs of Jewish synagogues and cemeteries.
143 pages, 30 cm. Very good condition; paper cover missing.
52 pages, 21.5 cm. Very good condition. Ex-Libris and signatures; slightly torn spine.
2. Friedhofsschändungen in Deutschland 1923-1932. Berlin, 1932. Desecration of cemeteries in Germany; with photographs.
32 pages, 19.5x13.5 cm. Very good condition.
3. Jüdische gotteshäuser und friedhöfe in Württemberg. Stuttgart, 1932. Includes many photographs of Jewish synagogues and cemeteries.
143 pages, 30 cm. Very good condition; paper cover missing.
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Central European Jewry
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Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 10, 2009
Opening: $200
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Five documents, Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde, Jewish Culture Department of Troppau, Silesia (in Poland and Czechoslovakia the place was called Opava).
Statut der israelitischen Kultusgemeinde – two regulations booklets of the Jewish Culture department in Troppau, one from 1909; Wähler-Liste – two voters’ lists, elections for the culture department 1907-1913;
Economic report for 1909, stencilled.
Statut der israelitischen Kultusgemeinde – two regulations booklets of the Jewish Culture department in Troppau, one from 1909; Wähler-Liste – two voters’ lists, elections for the culture department 1907-1913;
Economic report for 1909, stencilled.
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Central European Jewry
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