Five Books by Salomo Friedlaender (Mynona). Germany, 1920-1932. Two of the books are inscribed by him.
1. Der Schöpfer, Phantasie [The Creator, Fantasy]. Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1920. Illustrated by Alfred Kubin (1877-1959).
2. George Grosz. Dresden: Rudolf Kaemmerer, 1922. Including thirty-seven reproductions of works by George Grosz (1893-1959).
3. Mein hundertster Geburtstag u.a. Grimassen [My hundredth birthday and other Grimaces]. Vienna-Leipzig: Jahoda & Siegel, 1928.
4. Der Philosoph Ernst Marcus als Nachfolger Kants. Sein Leben und Lehre [The philosopher Ernst Marcus as Kant's successor. His life and teachings]. Essen: G.D. Baedeker, 1930. Inscribed on title page by Friedlaender – Halensee (Berlin), 16.1.1931.
5. Kant gegen Einstein [Kant versus Einstein]. Berlin: Der Neue Geist, 1932. Inscribed on title page by Friedlaender to his sister Agathe Borchardt – Halensee (Berlin), March 1932.
Salomo Friedlaender (1871-1946), Jewish-German writer, publicist and philosopher identified with the Avant-Garde Movement and Dadaism. In 1906, after completing his doctoral studies at the Jena University, he moved to Berlin, where he befriended several of the prominent thinkers and artists of the era: Martin Buber, Else Lasker-Schüler, Gustav Landauer, Erich Mühsam, Alfred Kobin and others. He used to sign his literary publications, which were published for the first time in various Avant-Garde journals, with the pseudonym Mynona (an anagram of "Anonym" – anonymous). In 1919, he cofounded with the writer and publicist Anselm Ruest (the pseudonym of his relative Ernst Samuel) the anarchist journal Der Einzige. Several weeks after the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933, Friedlaender moved to Paris, where he died lonely and penniless in 1946.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.

Autograph Letter by Yizhar Smilansky, addressed to Yitzchak Lamdan. Rehovot, September 6, 1948.
An interesting letter by Yizhar Smilansky (known by the pseudonym S. Yizhar), written during his military service in the 1948 War. Smilansky writes to his friend, the poet and editor Yitzchak Lamdan: "As to your request regarding that fellow Yosef – a) I never had a close relationship with Shimon Avidan, the 'Givati' Brigade commander (and by the way, his soldiers admire and appreciate him as a person, friend and commander), and not only that, but I do not serve in his brigade at all and have nothing to do with it…".
At the end of his letter, Smilansky describes his routine: "Besides, I work a lot, read and write very, very, very little and wait eagerly for days better than these and wish you all the best and beg you to not hold a grudge against your loyal friend" (Hebrew).
Yizhar Smilansky (1916-2006), one of the most prominent and important writers of the 1948 generation. His first story, "Ephraim Goes Back to Alfalfa" was published in the journal "Gilyonot" edited by Yitzchak Lamdan (1938) who gave him the pseudonym "S. Yizhar". For his monumental work on Israel's War of Independence – "Days of Ziklag", he was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature.
[1] f., approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Fold lines.

Personal, poetic letter, handwritten and signed by Uri Zvi Greenberg, to "Ms Rivkah." Written on official stationery. Ramat Gan, "the end of Year 5720 and on the threshold of 5721 [1960]."
In the letter, Uri Zvi Greenberg writes as follows: "To my dear friend Ms Rivkah, May She Live [Long], even as we speak the year draws to its conclusion. Blessed be G-d, that we exit with body and soul [intact] into the new year. The Lord does discern our soul and its desires, its torments and its wishes, for ourselves, and for our people and our land. He has been gracious with my household, and notwithstanding all the injuries sustained by my children, they have endured. And I was ‘the hero,' who remained steadfast of body, and was able, in between all the disturbances and worries, to create compositions for publication in ‘Haaretz' and ‘Moznayim' (these have not as yet been published, and will appear after Yom Kippur). And so I bless you, my dear Rivkah, who carries in her heart so very very very much, and her heart has the strength to carry, and with a smiling face, and yet a tear of emotion does sparkle in her eye! Indeed you do not set aside that which weighs upon your heart. And yet I sense the tension in it [your heart], and in its beating, in your day and in your night. I wish you health of body and soul in anticipation of that which approaches – and [I wish you] vitality of the spirit! And may we be so fortunate as to be blessed [in this way] again in the upcoming year. And yet another aspiration: Oh to rejoice over the redemption of Jerusalem. From the bottom of my heart, peace unto you: Uri Zvi, the end of Year 5720 and on the threshold of 5721 which approaches us with good [tidings]. I enclose a letter to Malka."
We were unable to confirm the identity of "Ms Rivkah." It is quite possible that the woman in question is Rivkah Aharonson, who was well acquainted with Uri Zvi Greenberg, and who participated in a private party in his honor at the home of the publisher Alexander Mozes in March 1960, the year this letter was written. One of Rivkah Aharonson's closest friends was her housekeeper, Malka Samsonov, and this may indeed be the "Malka" mentioned at the very end of the letter.
[1] f., approx. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Horizontal fold line.