Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
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The Tragedy of Slovak Jewry, Photographs and Documents. Bratislava (printed in Prague): Documentation Centre of the Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities, 1949. Hebrew and English (separate Slovak-language edition also published).
A photo-illustrated volume, containing high-quality reproductions of documents and photographs providing testimony of the persecution of the Jewish community of Slovakia during WWII.
142, [4] pp., 29 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Entire book (in paperback with original paper jacket) newly bound in hardcover binding. Tears to paper jacket mended with adhesive tape. Jacket reinforced with paper.
A photo-illustrated volume, containing high-quality reproductions of documents and photographs providing testimony of the persecution of the Jewish community of Slovakia during WWII.
142, [4] pp., 29 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Entire book (in paperback with original paper jacket) newly bound in hardcover binding. Tears to paper jacket mended with adhesive tape. Jacket reinforced with paper.
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
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"We are all working to Achieve the Redemption of the Land," poster issued by the Jewish National Fund. Tel Aviv: "Haaretz" Press, [1940s].
Poster printed by the Jewish National Fund in the framework of the project "Land for the Remnants of the Jewish people," a project established in 1942 in light of rumors regarding the events transpiring in Europe at the time. It was a campaign to encourage the Jewish population in Palestine to assist the JNF in purchasing as much land as possible, so as to prepare the country for the absorption and settlement of large waves of Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution.
The poster was meant to be displayed in schools across the country. Most of the sheet is dedicated to a table to be filled in by staff and students, giving the name of the institution, the number of its students, the estimated sum of money it was pledging to collect in the course of the year, and the actual amount collected thus far by each class, month after month, within the framework of pledged monthly donations as well as under the category of "special projects."
The poster was printed on the back of a map of Palestine published by the JNF, ca. 1932. The map's lower margin was cropped.
62X48.5 cm. Fair condition. Numerous stains. Numerous fold lines. Closed and open tears to edges, especially at fold lines. Tears to intersections of fold lines.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Poster printed by the Jewish National Fund in the framework of the project "Land for the Remnants of the Jewish people," a project established in 1942 in light of rumors regarding the events transpiring in Europe at the time. It was a campaign to encourage the Jewish population in Palestine to assist the JNF in purchasing as much land as possible, so as to prepare the country for the absorption and settlement of large waves of Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution.
The poster was meant to be displayed in schools across the country. Most of the sheet is dedicated to a table to be filled in by staff and students, giving the name of the institution, the number of its students, the estimated sum of money it was pledging to collect in the course of the year, and the actual amount collected thus far by each class, month after month, within the framework of pledged monthly donations as well as under the category of "special projects."
The poster was printed on the back of a map of Palestine published by the JNF, ca. 1932. The map's lower margin was cropped.
62X48.5 cm. Fair condition. Numerous stains. Numerous fold lines. Closed and open tears to edges, especially at fold lines. Tears to intersections of fold lines.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
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BeGey HaHarigah [In the Valley of Slaughter], Drawings by Leah Grundig. Tel Aviv: "Haaretz" Press, 1944.
Album of drawings depicting the horrors of the Holocaust.
Leah Grundig (1906-1977), Dresden-born artist, member of the German Communist Party, married to the German painter Hans Grundig. The two were interned in concentration camps on account of their Communist political views, but Leah managed to escape Europe and reach the shores of Palestine in 1940 on board the illegal immigrant ship SS Pacific. The series "In the Valley of Slaughter" – among her best-known works – was created in 1942-43. In her words, "It was as if the task had been imposed on me. I was driven to portray this. I was obligated to cry out on behalf of those whose voices had been strangled." Grundig was also known for the political cartoons she sketched for the newspaper of the Communist Party of Palestine, as well as for her landscapes, and for works inspired by her experience of life on a kibbutz. In the late 1940s, once she had discovered that her husband Hans had survived the war and the death camps, she left Israel and returned to Germany, leaving a significant number of works behind.
[1] f., [9] plates (printed on both sides), [1] f., 34X25 cm. Good condition. Stains, mostly to binding. Book in its original binding, entirely bound in new, additional binding. Wear to edges of original binding.
Literature: "Von Dresden nach Tel Aviv: Lea Grundig: 1933-1948." Exhibition catalogue, The Yigal Pressler Private Museum, Tel Aviv. Editor: Gideon Ofrat. Tel Aviv, 2014. Hebrew and German.
Album of drawings depicting the horrors of the Holocaust.
Leah Grundig (1906-1977), Dresden-born artist, member of the German Communist Party, married to the German painter Hans Grundig. The two were interned in concentration camps on account of their Communist political views, but Leah managed to escape Europe and reach the shores of Palestine in 1940 on board the illegal immigrant ship SS Pacific. The series "In the Valley of Slaughter" – among her best-known works – was created in 1942-43. In her words, "It was as if the task had been imposed on me. I was driven to portray this. I was obligated to cry out on behalf of those whose voices had been strangled." Grundig was also known for the political cartoons she sketched for the newspaper of the Communist Party of Palestine, as well as for her landscapes, and for works inspired by her experience of life on a kibbutz. In the late 1940s, once she had discovered that her husband Hans had survived the war and the death camps, she left Israel and returned to Germany, leaving a significant number of works behind.
[1] f., [9] plates (printed on both sides), [1] f., 34X25 cm. Good condition. Stains, mostly to binding. Book in its original binding, entirely bound in new, additional binding. Wear to edges of original binding.
Literature: "Von Dresden nach Tel Aviv: Lea Grundig: 1933-1948." Exhibition catalogue, The Yigal Pressler Private Museum, Tel Aviv. Editor: Gideon Ofrat. Tel Aviv, 2014. Hebrew and German.
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
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Three prayer leaves, with a version of the "Yizkor" prayer for the victims of the Holocaust (two different versions). [Israel, 1940s-1950s]. Hebrew.
1. "Yizkor prayer for the martyrs of the Diaspora who perished during the bloodbath 1939-1945". Haifa: Karmia Synagogue, [1946]. Stains and tears.
2. "Memorial for the victims of the Holocaust". The version of the "Yizkor" is identical to the version above (no. 1), with slight variations (handwritten copy or a photocopy of a manuscript).
3. "Prayer in memory of the victims of the Holocaust said at the end of a chapter or tractate and memorial services", [by Rabbi Yonah Sztencl, founder of the Mishna Yomit and Halacha Yomit enterprise]. Tel Aviv: "The Commemoration Enterprise for the Victims of the Holocaust, 'HaMishna HaYomit'", Luria Press.
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1. "Yizkor prayer for the martyrs of the Diaspora who perished during the bloodbath 1939-1945". Haifa: Karmia Synagogue, [1946]. Stains and tears.
2. "Memorial for the victims of the Holocaust". The version of the "Yizkor" is identical to the version above (no. 1), with slight variations (handwritten copy or a photocopy of a manuscript).
3. "Prayer in memory of the victims of the Holocaust said at the end of a chapter or tractate and memorial services", [by Rabbi Yonah Sztencl, founder of the Mishna Yomit and Halacha Yomit enterprise]. Tel Aviv: "The Commemoration Enterprise for the Victims of the Holocaust, 'HaMishna HaYomit'", Luria Press.
Size and condition vary.
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
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Die Tzugreytungen tzu der Gezetzgebung in der Yiddisher Medineh Loyt der Torah [The Draft Proposals for Torah-Based Legislation in the Jewish State], translated from the Hebrew by Sholom Schwadron. Linz: Center of Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael in Austria, February-March, 1948. Yiddish.
Mimeographed booklet citing a wide range of sources relevant to draft proposals for the enactment of Torah-based legislation in the future Jewish state: a letter dated 1947 from David Ben Gurion, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fishman (Maimon), and Yitzhak Gruenbaum; excerpts from the writings of Rabbi Dr. Yitzhak Breuer (one of the founders of the political party Agudat Yisrael) and Rabbi Moshe Blau; "memoranda" drafted by various personalities and organizations, all pertaining to the subject of adherence to the laws of the Torah in the future Jewish state.
39 pp., approx. 21X15 cm. Amateur printing, mimeographed, on dry, brittle paper. Overall good condition. Stains. Few tears. No back cover. Notation in pen to title page. New binding.
Not on OCLC. Bibliographically unlisted.
Mimeographed booklet citing a wide range of sources relevant to draft proposals for the enactment of Torah-based legislation in the future Jewish state: a letter dated 1947 from David Ben Gurion, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fishman (Maimon), and Yitzhak Gruenbaum; excerpts from the writings of Rabbi Dr. Yitzhak Breuer (one of the founders of the political party Agudat Yisrael) and Rabbi Moshe Blau; "memoranda" drafted by various personalities and organizations, all pertaining to the subject of adherence to the laws of the Torah in the future Jewish state.
39 pp., approx. 21X15 cm. Amateur printing, mimeographed, on dry, brittle paper. Overall good condition. Stains. Few tears. No back cover. Notation in pen to title page. New binding.
Not on OCLC. Bibliographically unlisted.
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
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HaHayil, daily newspaper for Jewish soldiers. "Western Europe" [probably Brussels], January to June, 1946. Issue Nos. 519-21, 523, 540, 547-48, 550, 557, 563, 570, 582, 594, 605, 625, 640. Hebrew.
16 issues of the newspaper "HaHayil." The newspaper was first published in Italy under the title "LaHayal…" ["To the Soldier, Daily Newsmagazine for Jewish Soldiers in Continental Europe"], but following the surrender of Nazi Germany, the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade were transferred to the Low Countries, the newspaper's editorial board moved to Brussels, and the paper then began to appear under its new title. The issues printed during the newspaper's second incarnation, in Brussels, document the defeat of Germany and the lives of Jewish soldiers in postwar Europe, containing a wealth of information regarding Palestine and the Jewish Yishuv there, in addition to dealing with the Holocaust and its survivors, and the Jewish Brigade and it soldiers.
Enclosed: A one-page invitation to a Hanukkah party in December 1942 in Tobruk, Libya, extended to the soldiers of the 5th and 11th RASC (water supply) Companies, and the 462nd, 178th, and 179th RASC (general) Companies.
Newspaper issues 34 cm; invitation sheet 29 cm. Condition varies.
16 issues of the newspaper "HaHayil." The newspaper was first published in Italy under the title "LaHayal…" ["To the Soldier, Daily Newsmagazine for Jewish Soldiers in Continental Europe"], but following the surrender of Nazi Germany, the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade were transferred to the Low Countries, the newspaper's editorial board moved to Brussels, and the paper then began to appear under its new title. The issues printed during the newspaper's second incarnation, in Brussels, document the defeat of Germany and the lives of Jewish soldiers in postwar Europe, containing a wealth of information regarding Palestine and the Jewish Yishuv there, in addition to dealing with the Holocaust and its survivors, and the Jewish Brigade and it soldiers.
Enclosed: A one-page invitation to a Hanukkah party in December 1942 in Tobruk, Libya, extended to the soldiers of the 5th and 11th RASC (water supply) Companies, and the 462nd, 178th, and 179th RASC (general) Companies.
Newspaper issues 34 cm; invitation sheet 29 cm. Condition varies.
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
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Passover the Festival of Freedom. Salzburg, 1955. English.
Invitation to a Passover seder in 1955 in the city of Salzburg; distributed to Jewish soldiers in the United States Zone of Allied-occupied Austria following WWII.
On the front of the invitation is an illustration of Salzburg's famous 11th-century castle-fortress, the Festung Hohensalzburg, alongside the emblem of the American forces in the US occupation zone in Austria. The body of the invitation contains a printed letter from the commander of US forces in Austria, Lt. Gen. William Howard Arnold; the menu for the holiday meal (with footnote: "All foods served are prepared according to Jewish dietary laws and in strict conformance with Passover standards"); and holiday greetings and good wishes from the (Christian) Army Chaplain, John J. Mullaney, and Chaplain Rabbi Oscar Michael Lifshutz. An additional illustration on verso depicts the Festung Hohensalzburg from the opposite angle, and a panoramic view of the city.
[1] folded sheet (6 printed pages), approx. 21.5 cm. Good condition. A few stains and minor abrasion to one page.
Invitation to a Passover seder in 1955 in the city of Salzburg; distributed to Jewish soldiers in the United States Zone of Allied-occupied Austria following WWII.
On the front of the invitation is an illustration of Salzburg's famous 11th-century castle-fortress, the Festung Hohensalzburg, alongside the emblem of the American forces in the US occupation zone in Austria. The body of the invitation contains a printed letter from the commander of US forces in Austria, Lt. Gen. William Howard Arnold; the menu for the holiday meal (with footnote: "All foods served are prepared according to Jewish dietary laws and in strict conformance with Passover standards"); and holiday greetings and good wishes from the (Christian) Army Chaplain, John J. Mullaney, and Chaplain Rabbi Oscar Michael Lifshutz. An additional illustration on verso depicts the Festung Hohensalzburg from the opposite angle, and a panoramic view of the city.
[1] folded sheet (6 printed pages), approx. 21.5 cm. Good condition. A few stains and minor abrasion to one page.
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
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An alle Juden Shanghais, Aufruf! a publication addressed to "All Jews of Shanghai" issued by the Zionist committee Das Koordinierte Committee für vereinigte Zionistische Aktionen [The Coordinated Committee for United Zionist Actions]. [Shanghai, October 1945/1946?]. German.
A printed handbill describing the destruction of European Jewry and the dispersion of She'erit Hapletah in the DP camps and over the world and criticizing the indifference of the nations in face of the tragedy and their objection to the establishment of a national home for the Jews in Palestine. The text ends with an appeal to all the Jews of Shanghai to unite around the Zionist idea and take part in a mass meeting that will take place on Sunday, October 14 at the Kadoori School yard in the Hongkew Quarter of Shanghai.
Issued by the Zionist Committee Das Koordinierte Committee für vereinigte Zionistische Aktionen, which directed the cooperative action of the Zionist organizations in Shanghai: "Kadimah", "Brit Trumpeldor", "Brit Noar Zioni" "Theodor Herzl" and more.
[1] f., 34 cm. Fair condition. Fold lines and creases. Stains. Closed tears, open tears and small holes (mostly to edges and fold lines), slightly affecting the text.
Not in OCLC.
A printed handbill describing the destruction of European Jewry and the dispersion of She'erit Hapletah in the DP camps and over the world and criticizing the indifference of the nations in face of the tragedy and their objection to the establishment of a national home for the Jews in Palestine. The text ends with an appeal to all the Jews of Shanghai to unite around the Zionist idea and take part in a mass meeting that will take place on Sunday, October 14 at the Kadoori School yard in the Hongkew Quarter of Shanghai.
Issued by the Zionist Committee Das Koordinierte Committee für vereinigte Zionistische Aktionen, which directed the cooperative action of the Zionist organizations in Shanghai: "Kadimah", "Brit Trumpeldor", "Brit Noar Zioni" "Theodor Herzl" and more.
[1] f., 34 cm. Fair condition. Fold lines and creases. Stains. Closed tears, open tears and small holes (mostly to edges and fold lines), slightly affecting the text.
Not in OCLC.
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
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About 50 early and rare books documenting the development of English common law in modern times. London and elsewhere in Britain, 16th century to the 19th century. English and additional languages.
Including:
● La Graunde Abridgement by Justice Sir Robert Broke. Second edition, London: Richard Tottel Press, 1576 (the book is considered one of the most important books in the history of English law and is one of the books of authority – the basic books of the English common law).
● A collection of entrees… and diuers other matters, by William Rastell. [London], 1596.
One of the thirteen books that were printed at the press owned and run by Jane Yetsweirt – one of the first English printers and the only woman who was permitted to print law books in the Elizabethan period (the printing house operated for three years only, between 1595 and 1597, and was closed for unknown reasons).
● The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England asserted, by George Harbin. London: G. James Press, 1713. Legal composition supporting the restoration of the House of Stuart to the British throne. The book had only one edition, which was published about two years before the attempt of the Stuarts to overthrow King George I and regain the throne of England (the Jacobite risings in 1715).
● Dozens of collections of rulings of important judges in the history of English law, some of the accompanied by prints of Judges' portraits, including Richard Hutton, Henry Hobart, Henry Pollexfen, Creswell Levinz, Edward Bulstrode, Henry Rolle and others.
● Various essays reviewing well-known trials in English history: the trials of the Jacobite rebels, the trial of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the murder trial of Ann Marten (The Red Barn Murder), and more.
● And additional books.
About 50 books. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. The books are bound in original leather bindings or new fine bindings with gilt lettering and decorations to spines; some have been professionally restored. Numerous handwritten notations and comments (old).
Including:
● La Graunde Abridgement by Justice Sir Robert Broke. Second edition, London: Richard Tottel Press, 1576 (the book is considered one of the most important books in the history of English law and is one of the books of authority – the basic books of the English common law).
● A collection of entrees… and diuers other matters, by William Rastell. [London], 1596.
One of the thirteen books that were printed at the press owned and run by Jane Yetsweirt – one of the first English printers and the only woman who was permitted to print law books in the Elizabethan period (the printing house operated for three years only, between 1595 and 1597, and was closed for unknown reasons).
● The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England asserted, by George Harbin. London: G. James Press, 1713. Legal composition supporting the restoration of the House of Stuart to the British throne. The book had only one edition, which was published about two years before the attempt of the Stuarts to overthrow King George I and regain the throne of England (the Jacobite risings in 1715).
● Dozens of collections of rulings of important judges in the history of English law, some of the accompanied by prints of Judges' portraits, including Richard Hutton, Henry Hobart, Henry Pollexfen, Creswell Levinz, Edward Bulstrode, Henry Rolle and others.
● Various essays reviewing well-known trials in English history: the trials of the Jacobite rebels, the trial of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the murder trial of Ann Marten (The Red Barn Murder), and more.
● And additional books.
About 50 books. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. The books are bound in original leather bindings or new fine bindings with gilt lettering and decorations to spines; some have been professionally restored. Numerous handwritten notations and comments (old).
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
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Der Rekhter Veg [The Right Way], a publicity paper calling upon the Jews of England to enlist in the ranks of the Jewish Legion of the British armed forces. Issued by the "Komitet far Yiddishe Tzukunft" (Committee for the Jewish Future) headed by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. [London]: Publisher not indicated, [1916]. Yiddish.
The first page contains a message to Jews who left Russia for England at the start of the First World War: You must choose between joining either the Russian army or the English army. Subsequently, there is a grim depiction of the life that awaits a Jewish soldier in the Russian army (the brutal behavior of commanding officers, the anti-Semitism rampant in Eastern Europe, soldiers' meager salaries, German submarines ambushing and sinking ships en route to Russia), in contrast to a far rosier picture of the treatment of Jewish soldiers in the English army (serving under a Jewish flag and other Jewish symbols, allowance for the observance of the Sabbath and of Jewish dietary laws, participation in the campaign for the conquest of the Land of Israel).
The document ends with the printed signature of the "Komitet far Yiddishe Tzukunft" (Committee for the Jewish Future), founded in London in 1916 by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. This committee actively campaigned among British Jewry to promote the idea of joining the ranks of the so-called Jewish Legion. As an organization, the committee was short-lived; it was disbanded in 1916, the same year it was established.
8 pp., 21 cm. Good-fair condition. Fold lines. Numerous stains. Minor tears to edges. Handwritten notation to first leaf.
Rare document. Not in OCLC.
The first page contains a message to Jews who left Russia for England at the start of the First World War: You must choose between joining either the Russian army or the English army. Subsequently, there is a grim depiction of the life that awaits a Jewish soldier in the Russian army (the brutal behavior of commanding officers, the anti-Semitism rampant in Eastern Europe, soldiers' meager salaries, German submarines ambushing and sinking ships en route to Russia), in contrast to a far rosier picture of the treatment of Jewish soldiers in the English army (serving under a Jewish flag and other Jewish symbols, allowance for the observance of the Sabbath and of Jewish dietary laws, participation in the campaign for the conquest of the Land of Israel).
The document ends with the printed signature of the "Komitet far Yiddishe Tzukunft" (Committee for the Jewish Future), founded in London in 1916 by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. This committee actively campaigned among British Jewry to promote the idea of joining the ranks of the so-called Jewish Legion. As an organization, the committee was short-lived; it was disbanded in 1916, the same year it was established.
8 pp., 21 cm. Good-fair condition. Fold lines. Numerous stains. Minor tears to edges. Handwritten notation to first leaf.
Rare document. Not in OCLC.
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