Auction 88 - Part I - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Manuscript, leaves from a Pinkas of the Gemilat Chasadim Holy Society of Raducaneni (Răducăneni, Iași county, Romania), [1868].
First six leaves of a Pinkas, including decorated title page, followed by the society's regulations.
The regulations are written in rhyme and arranged alphabetically.
The village of Raducaneni was founded in the 1840s. The Jewish community, which was present since its inception, constituted the majority of the local population.
The contents of the present leaves were published in Sinai, 95, 1984, pp. 278-286.
[6] leaves. 40 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Closed and open tears, repaired in part with tape. Tears from ink erosion to title page. Inscriptions. New binding.
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Handwritten Yahrzeit book, listing the names of members of the Creglingen community, including the names of the first Jewish victims of the Nazis in Germany. Germany, [1930s?].
Small handwritten notebook, recording the names of the deceased of the Creglingen community, southern Germany, in order of their Hebrew date of death. The notebook lists 46 names, including the names of Hermann Stern and Arnold Rosenfeld, who were amongst the first Jewish victims of the Nazis after they rose to power in Germany.
The Jewish community of Creglingen, Baden-Württemberg, is mentioned as early as 1298. At its peak, the community numbered some 130 Jews; on the eve of the Nazi's rise to power, the local Jewish population totaled 73. At the end of March 1933, a pogrom erupted in Creglingen, which is considered the first pogrom to take place in Germany after the Nazis took over. The pogrom was executed by a gang of SA thugs and a rioting mob, who tortured 16 local Jews in the town hall. Hermann Stern (age 67), a horse dealer and real estate agent and Arnold Rosenfeld (age 52), died from their wounds a few days later. These two are considered the first victims of Nazi Germany. From the middle of 1937, there were no Jews left in Creglingen.
[3] leaves (12 written pages). 16.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and creases. Minor tears along folds and to some folds – including open tears, not affecting text.
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HaDerech – The Way, monthly published by the Kehilla of Toronto. 12 consecutive issues. Toronto, 1940-1941. Yiddish and English.
Issues nos. 1-12. Possibly no other issues were published.
The monthly was published "in the interest of Kashrut and traditional Judaism (as stated at the opening of the issues) by the Kehilla of Toronto, an organization founded in 1923 to oversee the kashrut of meet in the city. The editor was Jacob I. Wohlgelernter.
The monthly was established in attempt to resolve the chaos which prevailed in Toronto in the first half of the 20th century regarding the kashrut of meat.
One of the rabbis who stood behind the monthly was R. Yaakov Kamenetsky (1891-1986), later one of the Torah leaders of the United States, who served at that time as rabbi of Toronto (1938-1945). Notices in the present issues reveal that he was one of the two rabbis at the head of the Vaad Hakashrut of the Kehilla of Toronto, to whom one could turn to on any matters of kashrut and religion (the other was R. Yosef Weinreb, 1869-1943, first chief rabbi of Toronto, known as the "Galitzianer Rav"). The issues also include a letter and declaration by the two rabbis, as well as two essays composed by R. Yaakov Kamenetsky, one of them containing a sharp protest against the United Jewish Welfare (this essay appears twice, in English in issue 6 and in Yiddish in issue 8); the other essay contains notes in preparation for Passover – mostly on kashrut matters (Yiddish, issue 10).
Apart from essays and notices on kashrut matters, as well as many essays regarding education of the young generation, the issues contain interesting information regarding the efforts of Canadian Jewry on behalf of their brethren during the Holocaust, items about the war, advertisements for Jewish organizations such as the JNF, essays upon the passing of R. Dov Revel (Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel, first president of RIETS in New York), an essay on kashrut by R. Shimshon Rafael Hirsch; and more. The issues also mention the names of many distinguished members of the Toronto community (surnames such as Korolnek, Tanenbaum, Shiff).
12 issues (dozens of leaves). Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains (mold stains in several places). Wear. Several tears.
The monthly does not appear in OCLC nor in Ontario Jewish Archives, and is presumably bibliographically unknown. This may be a complete set of issues.
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Nechamat Tzion, the Consolation of Zion – An account of the mission of R. Chaim Tzvi Schneersohn in Australia. Melbourne: Abbot & Co., 1863. English (and other languages), only the title is in Hebrew.
Detailed account of the progress of the mission of R. Chaim Tzvi Schneersohn in Australia, for the purpose of raising funds towards the erection of houses of refuge in the Old City of Jerusalem (the housing complex, Batei Machseh, was built in the 1860s at the initiative of Kollel Hod – Holland and Deutschland, to provide free housing for poor families for a period of three years).
The booklet contains a letter from R. Chaim Tzvi Schneersohn (translated to English by R. Moshe Rintel, first rabbi of the Melbourne Jewish community), and a letter from the trustees of Kollel Hod portraying the poverty and dearth of housing in Jerusalem which impelled them to undertake this project. These are followed by letters of recommendation from the chief rabbis and European consuls in Jerusalem, and from public figures in Australia. The booklet concludes with detailed reports of meetings held in this regard across Australia.
R. Chaim Tzvi Schneersohn (Hyam Zevee Sneersohn;1834-1882), emissary and Chabad Chassid, fourth generation descendant of the Baal HaTanya and a forebearer of Zionism. He travelled throughout the world on fundraising missions on behalf of Kollel Chabad and later of the Old Yishuv.
Booklet: 28 pages. Approx. 21 cm Good-fair condition. Stains and wear (dark stains and defects to title page). Tears and creases. Several detached leaves. Inscriptions and stamps on title page and final leaf.
One of the first Jewish titles printed in Australia.
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Samaritan manuscript, prayers for Sukkot. [Nablus, 19th century].
Hebrew (Samaritan script) and Arabic. Black and red ink on paper.
The manuscript contains several colophons of the copyists, in Arabic and in Hebrew, dated 1849-1870.
Owner's signatures.
[129] leaves. 20 cm. Good condition. Stains. Tears to several leaves. Several detached leaves. Original leather binding, damaged.
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