Online Auction 023 Part I + Part II - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture + Judaica
Collection of Letters – Writers, Scholars and Critics, 19th – 20th Centuries
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15 letters, postcards and handwritten passages, from the collection of the researcher and bibliographer Dr. Israel Mehlman.
1. Dedication-leaf handwritten by Abraham Bik, author of Bikurei Aviv (Lviv 1773).
2-3. two dedication-leaves handwritten by the scholar, member of the Enlightenment Movement, Senior Sachs (1816-1892) – one for the Hebraist Zalman Frensdorff and one for the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary.
4. A letter handwritten by Rabbi Nathan Porges, a member of the "Chochmat Israel" Movement and rabbi in Leipzig (1893).
5. A note handwritten by Yehuda Leib (Leopold) Duces (1810-1891), a literary critic and editor (on verso, a passage from a letter, also handwritten by Duces).
6-11. Six postcards and letters that were sent to the Talmud researcher Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Menashe Levin (1879-1944), author of "Otzar Hageonim, from Avigdor Aptowitzer, Yehuda Halevi Hirschl, Shmuel Seligman, Yaakov Nachum Epstein and Rabbi Yaakov Mann.
12. A letter by Shmuel Niger to Dr. Eisenstadt (1927).
13. A letter by Yechezkel Epstein (1935).
14. A manuscript leaf (unidentified writer). In the margin, Dr. Mehlman wrote: "Shadal's handwriting?" (19th century).
15. A manuscript leaf; unidentified writer (19th century).
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman.
1. Dedication-leaf handwritten by Abraham Bik, author of Bikurei Aviv (Lviv 1773).
2-3. two dedication-leaves handwritten by the scholar, member of the Enlightenment Movement, Senior Sachs (1816-1892) – one for the Hebraist Zalman Frensdorff and one for the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary.
4. A letter handwritten by Rabbi Nathan Porges, a member of the "Chochmat Israel" Movement and rabbi in Leipzig (1893).
5. A note handwritten by Yehuda Leib (Leopold) Duces (1810-1891), a literary critic and editor (on verso, a passage from a letter, also handwritten by Duces).
6-11. Six postcards and letters that were sent to the Talmud researcher Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Menashe Levin (1879-1944), author of "Otzar Hageonim, from Avigdor Aptowitzer, Yehuda Halevi Hirschl, Shmuel Seligman, Yaakov Nachum Epstein and Rabbi Yaakov Mann.
12. A letter by Shmuel Niger to Dr. Eisenstadt (1927).
13. A letter by Yechezkel Epstein (1935).
14. A manuscript leaf (unidentified writer). In the margin, Dr. Mehlman wrote: "Shadal's handwriting?" (19th century).
15. A manuscript leaf; unidentified writer (19th century).
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman.
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