Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
Opening: $300
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Five pictures of Lithuanian rabbis and yeshiva deans. [ca. early 20th century].
• Portrait of a rabbi, studio photograph (cabinet card). [Early 20th century].
Handwritten inscription on verso: "R. Itzel Ponovezher" [this photograph is different from the famous pictures of R. Yitzchak Yaakov Rabinowitz Rabbi of Ponovezh (1854-1919), who was known in the Torah world as R. Itzele of Ponovezh, yet it may have been taken in his old age].
• Portrait of R. Chaim Rabinowitz, studio photograph (carte de visite). [Telz, ca. 1910]. Handwritten inscription on verso: "Chaim Rabinowitz".
The present photograph is unknown, and it predates the photograph from his final years appearing on the class picture of the Telz yeshiva in 1928.
R. Chaim Rabinowitz (1860-1930), dean of the Telz yeshiva. His lectures were published in the Chiddushei Rabbi Chaim MiTelz series.
• Portrait of R. Chaim Segal of Rotzki, photograph printed on postcard (trimmed). [Lithuania, ca. 1910s-1920s]. Handwritten inscription in the margins: "R. Chaim Segal, der Rotzker".
R. Chaim Segal (1845-1914), rabbi of Rotzki (Raczki) and Yanova. He authored Orach LeChaim.
• Real photo postcard, "Leadership of the Rabbinical Conference in Lithuania - 6th Iyar 1926 - Kovno". [Kovno, 1926]. The photograph depicts nine rabbis sitting at the head table, and other rabbis. The leading rabbis include R. Avraham Dov Ber Kahana Shapira - rabbi of Kovno, and R. Zelig Reuven Bengis - rabbi of Kalvaria. Stamp of the Executive Committee of the Union of Rabbis in Lithuania on verso.
• Portrait of R. Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, the Ponovezher Rav, photograph (pasted on card). [Bnei Brak?, ca. 1960s].
5 items. Approx. 11.5X7 cm to 17X11 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and minor damage. Folding marks and tiny tears to postcard of rabbinic conference in Lithuania.
• Portrait of a rabbi, studio photograph (cabinet card). [Early 20th century].
Handwritten inscription on verso: "R. Itzel Ponovezher" [this photograph is different from the famous pictures of R. Yitzchak Yaakov Rabinowitz Rabbi of Ponovezh (1854-1919), who was known in the Torah world as R. Itzele of Ponovezh, yet it may have been taken in his old age].
• Portrait of R. Chaim Rabinowitz, studio photograph (carte de visite). [Telz, ca. 1910]. Handwritten inscription on verso: "Chaim Rabinowitz".
The present photograph is unknown, and it predates the photograph from his final years appearing on the class picture of the Telz yeshiva in 1928.
R. Chaim Rabinowitz (1860-1930), dean of the Telz yeshiva. His lectures were published in the Chiddushei Rabbi Chaim MiTelz series.
• Portrait of R. Chaim Segal of Rotzki, photograph printed on postcard (trimmed). [Lithuania, ca. 1910s-1920s]. Handwritten inscription in the margins: "R. Chaim Segal, der Rotzker".
R. Chaim Segal (1845-1914), rabbi of Rotzki (Raczki) and Yanova. He authored Orach LeChaim.
• Real photo postcard, "Leadership of the Rabbinical Conference in Lithuania - 6th Iyar 1926 - Kovno". [Kovno, 1926]. The photograph depicts nine rabbis sitting at the head table, and other rabbis. The leading rabbis include R. Avraham Dov Ber Kahana Shapira - rabbi of Kovno, and R. Zelig Reuven Bengis - rabbi of Kalvaria. Stamp of the Executive Committee of the Union of Rabbis in Lithuania on verso.
• Portrait of R. Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, the Ponovezher Rav, photograph (pasted on card). [Bnei Brak?, ca. 1960s].
5 items. Approx. 11.5X7 cm to 17X11 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and minor damage. Folding marks and tiny tears to postcard of rabbinic conference in Lithuania.
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Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
Opening: $400
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Portraits of the Gaon of Vilna and R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor Rabbi of Kovno - color lithograph. [Germany, early 20th century].
The portraits are set in two medallions surrounded by vegetal ornaments, menorot, a Star of David, lions and crowns, with captions stating their names and other details.
52X39 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases, minor damage. Marginal abrasions and tears. Stamp. Mounted on paper.
The portraits are set in two medallions surrounded by vegetal ornaments, menorot, a Star of David, lions and crowns, with captions stating their names and other details.
52X39 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases, minor damage. Marginal abrasions and tears. Stamp. Mounted on paper.
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Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
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Portrait of the Gaon of Vilna - large color lithograph. Breslau (Germany): Salo Schottländer, [early 20th century].
The Gaon of Vilna is seen seated at his desk, wrapped in a tallit, holding a book in one hand and writing with a feather on a paper laid out before him.
The inscription reads: "The Gaon R. Eliyahu of Vilna… author of Shenot Eliyahu, born 1st day of Pesach 1725, d. 19th Tishrei 1794".
50X37 cm. Good-fair condition. Marginal tears. Open tears to lower margin, slightly affecting text.
The Gaon of Vilna is seen seated at his desk, wrapped in a tallit, holding a book in one hand and writing with a feather on a paper laid out before him.
The inscription reads: "The Gaon R. Eliyahu of Vilna… author of Shenot Eliyahu, born 1st day of Pesach 1725, d. 19th Tishrei 1794".
50X37 cm. Good-fair condition. Marginal tears. Open tears to lower margin, slightly affecting text.
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Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
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Mizrach poster in color lithograph. Published by Samuel W. [Wolf] Pascheles, bookseller in Prague. Prague: Ignaz Fuchs, [last quarter of 19th century, ca. 1870s-1890s]. Hebrew and German.
Elaborate Mizrach poster, printed in bright colors and gold ink. The center is occupied by the Ark of the Covenant depicted beneath snow-covered mountains, and the Western Wall. Moshe and Aharon are portrayed on the sides, together with the symbols of the twelve tribes and various verses in Hebrew and German.
55.5X38 cm. Very good condition. Some stains.
Elaborate Mizrach poster, printed in bright colors and gold ink. The center is occupied by the Ark of the Covenant depicted beneath snow-covered mountains, and the Western Wall. Moshe and Aharon are portrayed on the sides, together with the symbols of the twelve tribes and various verses in Hebrew and German.
55.5X38 cm. Very good condition. Some stains.
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Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
Opening: $300
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Mapah Derech Emet, map of Eretz Israel indicating the travels of the Jewish people through the desert, the territories of the tribes and new Jewish colonies, drawn by Avigdor Malkov. Warsaw, 1899. Second edition. Hebrew and some Russian.
Map of Eretz Israel oriented as is typical in early maps, with the east at the top of the map. Both ancient and modern information are represented on the map - markings of the travels of the Jewish people through the desert after the Exodus, alongside new Jewish colonies such as Hadera, Kfar Saba, Yehud, Motza and more, some of which may have never before been recorded on a map, as well as the Jaffa-Jerusalem train line (inaugurated 1892, two years before the first edition of this map was published) and the Suez Canal.
Author's description of the map in upper right corner. Russian title, legend and scale bar in lower left corner, a second scale bar in upper right corner. Verses and quotations from prayers on the longing for Redemption and the return to Eretz Israel are printed around the map.
Map: approx. 78X52.5 cm. Fair condition. Browned paper. Map dissected in 20 sections and mounted on linen (for folding). Tears and minor open tears. Framed, approx. 88.5X63 cm.
Laor 895 (first edition, 1894; this edition not recorded).
Reference: Hatishbi, Ariel, ed., Holy Land in Maps. Jerusalem: Israel Museum and Ministry of Defense, 2001. P. 134. Hebrew.
Map of Eretz Israel oriented as is typical in early maps, with the east at the top of the map. Both ancient and modern information are represented on the map - markings of the travels of the Jewish people through the desert after the Exodus, alongside new Jewish colonies such as Hadera, Kfar Saba, Yehud, Motza and more, some of which may have never before been recorded on a map, as well as the Jaffa-Jerusalem train line (inaugurated 1892, two years before the first edition of this map was published) and the Suez Canal.
Author's description of the map in upper right corner. Russian title, legend and scale bar in lower left corner, a second scale bar in upper right corner. Verses and quotations from prayers on the longing for Redemption and the return to Eretz Israel are printed around the map.
Map: approx. 78X52.5 cm. Fair condition. Browned paper. Map dissected in 20 sections and mounted on linen (for folding). Tears and minor open tears. Framed, approx. 88.5X63 cm.
Laor 895 (first edition, 1894; this edition not recorded).
Reference: Hatishbi, Ariel, ed., Holy Land in Maps. Jerusalem: Israel Museum and Ministry of Defense, 2001. P. 134. Hebrew.
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Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
Opening: $500
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East wall of the great synagogue in Kisvárda (Kleinwardein), Hungary, 1901.
Watercolor on canvas, mounted on paper. Signed and dated. Legend (in Hungarian) on the card backing the drawing.
The drawing presents the east wall of the Kisvárda great synagogue, with an elaborate Torah ark surmounted by a stained glass rose window.
The Jewish community of Kisvárda, a town in north-east Hungary, was documented already in the 1730s. The community was large in relation to the town, and flourished from a financial viewpoint. Its members were merchants, industrialists and farmers; the community managed numerous institutions, including a bank and a Jewish hospital. Prior to WWII, the Jews made up about a third of the town's population. The magnificent and large synagogue, whose east wall is depicted in this drawing, and which still stands today, was built in 1901. The building was designed by Ferenc Szabolcsi (Grósz). The rose window on the east wall of the structure, which serves nowadays as a museum, is slightly different from the one depicted in the drawing. Most of the Kisvárda Jewish community perished in the Holocaust.
34X23 cm. Mounted on 41.5X29 cm card. Good condition. Stains.
Watercolor on canvas, mounted on paper. Signed and dated. Legend (in Hungarian) on the card backing the drawing.
The drawing presents the east wall of the Kisvárda great synagogue, with an elaborate Torah ark surmounted by a stained glass rose window.
The Jewish community of Kisvárda, a town in north-east Hungary, was documented already in the 1730s. The community was large in relation to the town, and flourished from a financial viewpoint. Its members were merchants, industrialists and farmers; the community managed numerous institutions, including a bank and a Jewish hospital. Prior to WWII, the Jews made up about a third of the town's population. The magnificent and large synagogue, whose east wall is depicted in this drawing, and which still stands today, was built in 1901. The building was designed by Ferenc Szabolcsi (Grósz). The rose window on the east wall of the structure, which serves nowadays as a museum, is slightly different from the one depicted in the drawing. Most of the Kisvárda Jewish community perished in the Holocaust.
34X23 cm. Mounted on 41.5X29 cm card. Good condition. Stains.
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