Chaim Nachman Bialik’s writings and a selection of his translations with illustrations by Josef Budko. Published by Hebrew Poetry Enthusiasts, Berlin, 1923.
Magnificent four-volume numbered edition: first book – poems; second book – stories and literature; third book – Don Quixote translation; fourth book – William Tell translation.
‘This book is being published in 2300 copies. A picture of the author is at the front of the book – copperplate by Prof. Max Leibermann in Berlin. The book’s decorations and pictures, nineteen woodcuts, are the handiwork of Josef Budko in Berlin. Printed in two colors with the jubilee edition of the author’s writings, at Traubitsh and Son Press, in Berlin … the bindings were done by Leipziger Bookbindery Leipzig-Berlin.’
The four volumes are bound in semi-parchment binding with gilt writing on the spine and gilt upper page-cuts.
The volumes are sized 25×19 cm. Stains on the bindings. Fine condition.
Envelope from the Poalei Eretz Yisrael party, with a stamp postmarked “100 years of the Socialist International, 19 Elul 1964.” Moshe Sharett and David Ben-Gurion signed on the envelope.
Specifications: [1] envelope, 10×17.5 cm. With color emblem and inscription marking 100 years of the International, from the M”PAI. Tokyo 1964 olympics postal stamp, with first-day issue postmark, and a stamp marking 100 years of the International. With the signatures of former prime ministers David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett. A Moshe Sharett stamp and 1968 postmark were added after Moshe Sharett’s passing.
The envelope is glued to the leaf, thick paper, 21×29 cm, with a photograph from 1946 of Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett.
David Ben-Gurion [1886-1973] served as prime minister of Israel and defense minister from the establishment of the state until he resigned in 1953. Moshe Sharett [1894-1965] was the second prime minister of the State of Israel from January 1954 until November 1955. Ben-Gurion served as defense minister in Sharett’s government, and returned to serve as prime minister from November 1955 until his resignation in 1963.
Condition: Very fine.
Leaf marking the issue of the “25 Years of Israeli Independence” postage stamp, with Prime Minister Golda Meir’s signature, in a folded leaf with photographs of Golda Meir.
Specifications: [1] leaf, parchment-like paper. 15×21 cm. Stamped with a dedicated seal for the first day of issue. This leaf is pasted to [1] leaf, paper, 32×22 cm, which folds to form a cover for the parchment-like leaf. The external leaf has a picture of Golda Meir from various periods in her life. Stamped twice as a gift from the circle of Israeli stamp and autograph collectors.
Condition: Very fine.
“Shalom” postage stamps with first day of issue envelope, 1979. And with a Menachem Begin stamp, postmarked with a seal including Begin’s signature, 1933. Menachem Begin’s signature in Hebrew and in English. The envelope is pasted to a leaf with a photograph of Menachem Begin.
Specifications: [1] page, parchment-like paper, 21×29 cm, with a picture of Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin, with [1] first day of issue envelope of the “peace stamp,” 17×10 cm, with a Menachem Begin stamp on it as well. There are two signatures by Menachem Begin on the envelope, one in Hebrew and one in English.
Condition: Excellent condition.
Folded leaf, souvenir of the Fight for Freedom Exhibition with a postage stamp with the seal of the exhibition, with the signature of Etzel commander Menachem Begin’s signature under it, and with pictures of the hanged martyrs of Nili, Etzel and Lechi. Tel Aviv, 1958.
Specifications: [1] folded leaf, thick paper. 12×17 cm. Numbered 37 of 100. The front has a postage stamp with the emblem of the State, postmarked with the seal of the Fight for Freedom Exhibition made up of the exhibition’s emblem, its location and the opening date: Tel-Aviv-Jaffa, 3 Tevet / December 12, 1958, with the signature of Menachem Begin, head of the Irgun. The internal pages display the exhibition’s emblems, its dates and a quote from David Raziel, one of the Irgun’s founders and commanders: “Those who go to die – establish you, Homeland.” On the reverse, the emblems of Etzel and Lechi and pictures of 14 members of Nili, Etzel and Lechi: “Those who gave their lives on the gallows – so that Israel may live.”
Condition: Very fine.
David Ben-Gurion’s signature beside a postage stamp, with the seal of the Sde Boker College marking David Ben-Gurion’s 85th year on it. 1971.
Specifications: [1] leaf, parchment-like paper. 13×16.5 cm. With a Sukkot postage stamp from the Moadim L’Simchah 1972 series, with the “מדרשת שדה בוקר. 85 שנה לדוד בן-גוריון” [Sde Boker College – David Ben-Gurion’s 85th year] seal and with David Ben-Gurion’s signature.
Condition: Very fine.
Congratulatory letter written by the eventual prime minister of Israel Levi Eshkol to Mr. Harry Kahn on 28/12/58 for his community activities over the years, stencil print with official government of Israel stationery, and Levi Eshkol’s signature in the margins.
Harry J. Kahn was born in 1880 in Serbia. In 1902 he moved to New York, where he became an activist with the first Labor members who later worked with the American Jewish Congress, as well as being active with the JNF and other groups. He wrote many newspaper articles in the American Jewish press [principally in Yiddish] and would sign his name using pseudonyms.
The letter is in a wood and glass frame with the original envelope in which it was sent 36×26 cm. Fine condition.
Twelve photographs with handwritten signatures of the subjects – ministers and officials in the State of Israel, 1970s.
Photographs of Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, Abba Eban (serving as foreign minister), Police Minister Shlomo Hillel, Intelligence Corps Colonel Itzik Turgeman, Minister of Agriculture Chaim Gabati, Zalman Shoval, Eliyahu Sasson, Natan Peled, Aryeh L. Dultzin, Head of the Mossad of the GSS Isser Harel, Naval Commander Avraham Botzar.
All of the photographs are signed.
Provenance: The photographs and signatures were sent by request [in the 1970s] to a collector who requested a signed photograph from each of the subjects; some of the photographs have a short dedication.
Various sizes, very fine condition.
Photo of the third president of the State of Israel, Levi Eshkol. With his autograph. Dated 18.2.58.
Description: 21×25 cm.
Background: Levi Eshkol [1895-1969] served as the third president of the State of Israel, until he passed away from a heart attack on the 26th of February, 1969. He served as a minister in a number of Israeli governments, including as minister of finance, a position he held for 11 years.
Condition: Very fine. Slight creases.
Abba Eben [1915-2002], Israeli politician and diplomat, considered “The Number One Diplomat” of Israel.
Size: 13×10 cm.
Very fine condition.
Yitzchak Rabin [1922-1995]. Photo with his autograph. 1978.
Postage stamp in memory of Menachem Ussishkin, with first day of issue postmark. At center, a color picture of Yitzchak Rabin, with his autograph.
Fine condition.
Shimon Peres [1923-2016], black and white autographed photo inscribed, “To Dr. J Martin,” c. 1980.
Size: 9×12 cm.
Very fine condition.
Arik MeHaTzanchanim by Matti Shavit, published by Sifriat Madim Tel Aviv 1970.
Biography of Ariel Sharon [1928-2014] Growth of a Fighter . Early composition describing Ariel Sharon’s activities from childhood through becoming commander of the paratroopers. With Ariel Sharon’s handwritten dedication and signature to Rabbi Nachum HaKohen Kook [rabbi of Ramat Gan] from January 1971.
Damp stain on the binding. Moderate-fine condition.
Envelope commemorating 40 years since the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp – on the occasion of a stamp exhibition . Signed by renowned Nazi hunter Simon Weisenthal. There is a picture of the concentration camp drawn by Simon Weisenthal. The exhibition was held by the Jewish community in Vienna, the alliance of those persecuted by the Nazis, and the Israel Philatelic Federation. Vienna, 1985.
Description: [1] envelope, thick paper. 12×17 cm.
Background: Simon Weisenthal was a Jewish architect known as a “Nazi hunter.” As a Holocaust survivor, he dedicated his entire life to collection and documentation of information about Nazi war criminals in order to bring them to justice. He succeeded in his mission, bringing over 1,100 war criminals responsible for mass murder during the Holocaust. He lived and worked in Vienna, Austria.
Condition: Very fine.
Photograph of the Jewish artist , Marc Chagall, with his handwritten signature.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was born Moshe Segal in Lionza, in the Russian Empire. His family was originally chassidic; as a child he studied in Talmud Torah. In 1906, he registered with the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. He studied under Yehudah Pen. In 1910, after acquiring renown as an artist, he moved to Montparnasse, the artist’s quarter in Paris. Subsequently, he returned to Russia, where he was involved in the Russian Revolution of 1917. The revolutionary government’s ministry of the arts appointed him commissar for visual arts in the Vitebsk region. A few exhibitions of Chagall’s work were held in Berlin. With the rise of the Nazis, they denounced his work. The events in Nazi Germany influenced Chagall’s creations, which became more somber, and depicted the Jew’s suffering. On April 8, 1971, he was awarded the second highest Legion of Honor by French President Jacque Chaban -Delmas, and in 1981 he won the Wolf Prize for art. Chagall visited Israel several times. On his final visit, in 1977, he was granted the title “Yakir Yerushalayim.”
Size: 33×26 cm. Placed in a frame. Very fine condition.
Marc Chagall Yetziruto [!] 1908-1951 by Mordechai Narkiss. Autographed by Marc Chagall.
20, [1]; 20, [1] page, [24] picture-plates, 22 cm. Hebrew and French.
The jacket title page is in French, autographed [Hebrew] Marc Chagall, Israel 1951.
Very fine condition.
Color photograph autographed by NBA player Michael Jordan, while playing for the Chicago Bulls.
25×21 cm. Placed in a frame. Very fine condition.
