Five documents in Dutch: Four documents connected to the Jewish community in the city of Ootmarsum, Holland between the years 1756-1779.
One letter from the year 1815 from L.D. Meyer in the city of Hague to the famous scientist Professor Th[eodorus] Van Swinderen in the city of Groningen, Holland.
A document in Hungarian from J. Kalisch from the city of Moson in Hungary, 1861.
A document in German about the termination of work of a Jewish teacher in the city of Deutschkreuz on the Austro-Hungarian border in 1856.
Two documents from the city of Kittsee from the years 1852 and 1854.
A document in Romanian from the community of Darabani in Romania from the year 1916 signed by the Rabbi of the community Nachum Shemarayahu Schechter, author of the book “Perach Shoshan” on Avot and other books, and additional community members.
10 documents of varying sizes. Checked in a superficial manner. Some of them with original red wax stamps. Fine-Very Fine condition.
A large varied archive of hundreds of documents which contains small sections of a Bukharan Geniza, letters from Rabbis, yeshivot and soup kitchens, Torah novaelle from Rabbanim, trade letters from Palestine, the Jewish Agency, the First Knesset and more.
Hundreds of unorganized documents, in five folders. The descriptions below are a general and un-encompassing description of the folders’ content:
[1] Letters from Rabbis, Rabbinical Court rulings, Yeshivot and soup kitchens, Torat Chaim Yeshiva, Torah novaelle in Rabbinic handwriting, Jerusalem, 1920’s.
[1] Trade letters in Yiddish, D.Solomon, England, 1930’s. Hebrew University 1945, the Jewish Agency Bombay, the United Religious Front of the first Knesset: signatures of D.Z. Pinkas, Avraham Reines, Moshe Sharet, Azriel Carlebach.
[1] Geniza from the Bukharan Quater, Jerusalem, beginning of the century: letters, manuscripts of prayers, lists of donors, receipts, telegrams, all in Eastern handwriting in Hebrew as well as Arabic, complete and partial letters.
[1] The personal archive of Rabbi Efraim Greenblatt, author of “Revavot Efraim”. Words of Torah, responsa, letters to the great Rabbis of the generation, personal letters, drafts of sermons for his book ‘Doresh Tov’. Letters to Rabbi Yechiel Avraham Zilber. 1940’s – end of the 20th century.
Contains hundreds of documents in varying conditions, sold as it is.
A large archive of the history of Jerusalem in the modern era. Circa 1876-1930.
A large archive which contains some 65 items, including booklets, ledgers and books of regulations of societies for establishing neighborhoods in Jerusalem, in some of the ledgers are the handwritten signatures of the heads of the societies.
Below is a partial and not representative list:
* Book of regulations for the Yishuv Eretz Yisrael in the Holy Land Society, which is called Chevrat Avodat Ha’Adamah V’Geulat Ha’Aretz. [1876]. * Book of Covenant and Memorial for the Agudat Mosdei Ha’Yishuv Society [for the establishing of Petach Tikva]. Jerusalem [1881]. * Kuntress Sha’arei Chessed…with the signature of Rabbi Chaim Yosef Sonnenfeld. * Ezrat Nidachim L’Tiferet Moshe V’Yehudit Society. Jerusalem, 1884, 5 booklets. *Regulations… of the thirty houses called by the name Sha’ar HaPina. Jerusalem, 1889. * A ledger of the Elef L’Matteh Society. Jerusalem, [1889].
*A transcription of the large ledger of the ‘Derech Chaim U’Gemilut Chassadim’ Society in the Or HaChaim Study Hall. Jerusalem, 1889. * Book of regulations of Me’ah She’arim. Jerusalem, [1889]. * Regulations and Laws of the Sha’arei Zedek Society. Jerusalem [1890]. *Regulations of the Yemin Moshe Society for the Natan Street department. Jerusalem. [1892]. *Regulations and Laws of the Adirah Knesset Yisrael… Society, Jerusalem, in the Solomon Brothers Printing Press, [1899]. * Regulations of the Sha’arei Chessed Society, Jerusalem, [1909]. *Regulations of the Jurat el Anab neighborhood committee. * Report of ‘Bayit Ve’Gan’ Jerusalem, 1925. Including the plans of the Bayit Ve’Gan neighborhood.
* Regulations of the Yafe Nof neighborhood, [1925]. *Shoshanat Zion, a society to establish a neighborhood around Jerusalem. [1922].
The archive was not properly investigated, it contains much material about the establishment of neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Without a doubt, it contains rare items which are not found at all in libraries and possibly even unique items.
A detailed list will be sent to anyone who requests.
Fine general condition.
First Hebrew municipal promissory note. Fundraising for infrastructure to provide water to the colony, with a heter iska, from the Vaad HaMoshavot Petach Tikva. 1911. Signed by the council heads.
[1] leaf. 26×15 cm. Written on both sides, with 5 (of 8) stubs stamped for annual redemption.The certificate is signed by Shlomo Zalman Gissin, president; Yehoshua Stampfer, secretary; B. Machlis, treasurer. With an Ottoman revenue stamp for 20 piastres. The document is written exclusively in Hebrew.
Petach Tikvah was the first colony in Palestine. It was founded in 1878 as an agricultural settlement. One of its primary problems was securing funds and building a water supply, and much effort was invested in these two areas – as Yoel Moshe Solomon described in his diary.In 1911, an agreement was signed between the colony’s council and Bezalel Yaffe, in which Yaffe agreed to establish a central water pumping plant to provide water for the orchards around the colony in return for a 30-year concession. Bezalel Yaffe traveled to Egypt to learn about pumping water. This document indicates that he also raised funds from local Jews for this project while he was there.This promissory note was purchased by Mordechai Moshli during Yaffe’s visit to Egypt. Moshli was the grandson of Rabbi Avraham Eliezer Moshli, a descendant of the Chozeh of Lublin and son of Zerach Alter Moshli, a founder of the Neveh Tzedek neighborhood and clockmaker, the one who put the clock in the Jaffa clock tower. This historic document testifies to the Vaad HaMoshavot’s careful observance of the mitzvot via the heter iska.
Very fine condition.
Song composed in honor of the visit of Emperor Franz Joseph — warm words of admiration and love.
Nella fausta occasione che la sacra maesta di Francesco Giuseppe. Magnificent booklet with a special song in honor of Emperor Franz Joseph’s visit to Italy. Composed by the Beit Midrash L’Rabbanim in Padua, Italy. Printed in Italy, 1856.
[13] leaves, 33 cm. Colored title page, quality paper. Hebrew, Italian, German, and Syriac.
Franz Joseph I (1830-1916) was the Austrian Emperor and King of Bohemia and Hungary. He was one of the most admired European leaders of the 19th century. He had a tolerant relationship with the Jews. During his various journeys and visits, many admiring words were written about him such as this song, which was printed in honor of his visit.
Original but blemished paper jacket. Aging stains. Fine condition.
Verfassung der Hamburger Deutsch-Israelitischen Gemeinde. Bylaws of the Hamburg community. Hamburg, 1908.
18 pages, 21.5 cm. German. 65 bylaws divided according to subject.
Printed paper jacket. Very fine condition.
Statut des Deutsch Israelitischen Synagogen-Verbandes zu Hamburg. Bylaws of the Federation of Hamburg Synagogues. Updated in 1927. Hamburg, 1927.
22 pages, 22 cm. German. The laws were first instituted in 1868 and were updated in 1927.
Printed paper jacket. Front section is detached. Minimal aging stains. Fine-very fine condition.
16 varied calendars of the KKL, Jewish communities in Europe and America – 1911-1958.
[5] pocket calendars of the KKL, Palestine, from the years: 1936-7, 1942-3, 1943-4, 1944-5, 1945-6.
[3] The KKL’s journal ‘Moledet’ with the addition of calendars from the years: 1946-7, 1948-9, 1952-3.
[2] Israeli Art Calendar of Keren HaYesod from the years 1956-7 and 1957-8.
[1] ‘The Pictures of the Land of Israel Calendar for the year 1939-40’ with photographs from daily life in Israel and verses from the prophets, Palestine 1939.
[1] Calendar in Yiddish, for the donors to the Bikur Cholim Hospital, New York, incomplete, contains the months of Adar-Tishrei 1947.
[1] Jüdischer Jugend-Kalender 5672, Frankfurt 1911.
[1] Calendar in German (1910?), incomplete, with the dates of death of central figures of German Jewry alongside advertisements.
[1] Siddur and calendar for 1932-3, Bratislava, Slovakia. Incomplete.
Handbook of Jewish Information and 50 Year Date-Finder, New York, 1936.
Varying conditions, some of them incomplete, fine general condition.
Calendar for 1814, according to the customs of Poland, Lithuania, and Reisen… Vilna, at the press of Rabbi Menachem b”r Baruch. [1813].
[16] pages, 17 cm. Yiddish explanations.
Calendar with holidays for the entire year and the order of the Torah readings, Jewish holidays alongside various Catholic holidays, times of the moldot and tekufot and the deadline for kiddush levanah. With sunset and sunrise times in Vilna.
Especially rare calendar. Not in the National Library.
Cardboard binding. Cropped, affecting a number of words. Minimal aging stains. Fine condition.
Regola per riccavarsi gl’annui aggravi per le spese che occorrono all’Università degl’ebrei di Ferrara
Rules for receipt of the annual increase for the expenses incurred by the Jewish University of Ferrara.
Two booklets:
* Ferrera, 1734. The final pages have the excommunication text printed in Hebrew on them, with the (printed signatures) of Rabbis: Mordechai Tzahalon, Shabtai Elchanan Recanati, Shmuel Baruch Burgo, Yitzchak Lampronte.
39, [3] pp, 29 cm.
* Ferrera, 1757. This booklet does not include the excommunication text. However, this copy here has the excommunication text transcribed onto the last blank leaf in beautiful Italian script, with signatures from Rabbis: Ya’akov Daniel Ulmo and Pinchas Chai Uno
64; 28 cm.
Very fine condition.
Calendar through 1959. With moldot and tekufot. With all the holidays and fast days, and predictions regarding the weather, cost of living, medicine, and more. [Warsaw, 1845].
6 [1] 7-12 leaves. 20 cm. Printed without the author’s name and without year or location of print. The calendar starts in 1846. It includes many charts, with a large picture of the palm of a hand with hints for remembering the tekufot and a lengthy explanation of these hints. The last pages feature predictions for the future: rainy or arid years, feast or famine, and auspicious times for medical cures.
Not bound, deckled edges. Aging stains. Fine condition. Rare.
Prayer recited in the Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue in London on Shabbat, 1 Adar, 1859. Hebrew and English. London, 1859
Prayer service with historic importance especially composed and recited before Sir Moshe Montefiore set out for Rome to rescue the Jewish child Edgardo Mortara from the jaws of the Christian church in an affair that shocked the Jewish world.
English title: Prayer offered up in the synagogues of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews …on Adar 1, 5619… in consequence of the approaching departure of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore on their mission to Rome.
The affair of Edgardo Mortara’s kidnapping:
Edgardo Mortara was born in 1851 to a Jewish merchant from Bologna – at the time in the Papal State in Italy. When he was two years old and very ill, he was secretly baptized (to become Catholic) by a Christian servant who worked for his family, in her belief this would save the child.
When Edgardo was about six years old, the servant told the authorities about the baptism. Law forbade raising a Catholic child by non-Catholics. The police came to the family’s home in 1858 and took the child from his parents to be educated by the Church. His parents’ outcry reverberated across the entire Jewish world. Both Jews and non-Jews believed that in the era of enlightenment and emancipation, kidnapping and religious coercion of this type were no longer relevant, and they were called upon to take action.
Before embarking on his trip, Sir Moshe Montefiore co-ordinated his actions with Gershom Kursheedt, representative of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites, the first Jewish civil and political rights organization in the United States. Kursheedt traveled from America to accompany Sir Moses on his mission to Rome. Montefiore traveled for weeks to meet the pope, but all was for naught.
Edgardo stayed in the Vatican. Sadly, he became a priest under the Pope’s personal guidance and supervision. He eventually reached a relatively senior position in the Church and led missionary activity in Europe and America. This affair, which shocked the Jewish world, was the catalyst for the establishment of Chevrat Kol Yisrael Chaveirim which became known for defending the rights of Jews all over the world.
The importance of Mortara’s kidnapping and its impact went beyond his life and the lives of his family. The affair became known around the world and caused groups that support religious freedom and liberal values to protest all over Europe and the United States. Protests against these actions by the Church were even officially submitted by several European governments, including Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and Napoleon III, Emperor of France, and later also the President of the United States, Ulysses S Grant.
Rare publication.
[4] pp. Hebrew and English. 21.5 cm.
Very fine condition.
* 150-year calendar. Calendar for designating years, Rosh Chodesh, holidays, fasts, and Torah readings. By David Koptorowitz. Vilna, [1864]. [4] leaves. 21 cm. Includes ten numbered calendars.
* Calendar for the sixth millenium. With the moldot, tekufot, and mazalot, with secular calculations, public transportation timetables, fair dates, shipping prices and more. Published by R’ Avraham Wachs. Warsaw, [1889]. 70 leaves. 17.5 cm. With dozens of charts. Bound with Shivchei HaAri, Warsaw, 1875.
* Limudei Mikvaot, along with a Jerusalem calendar for 1893 and 1894. Laws of Mikveh by David HaKohen of Vilna, by his son Feivish Kohen. Jerusalem, [1893]. 80, 89-109 [1] page, with a jacket title page. 13.5 cm. Details according to the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. Interesting work, apparently printed as a fundraising tool. The last leaves are in German.
Varying sizes and conditions. Overall fine condition.
Jewish Calendar for 1860, printed in Virginia, USA. Includes times for Shabbat each month (the entire month as a whole), the annual holidays and Rashei Chodashim with instructions for Kiddush HaChodesh , fast days, and a list of synagogues in Richmond, the capital of Virginia.
Richardson’s Almanac , 1860
Publisher: Printed and for sale by J.W. Randolph. Sold also by J.W. Evans, G.M. West and W.P. Ladd, Richmond. Richmond, Va., [1859]
Early mention of Virginia Jewry
Rare calendar. Only two other copies are known to remain in public libraries around the world.
18 pages printed on both sides. Blank page inserted between the leaves, likely for writing notes.
15 cm.
Very fine condition. Few aging stains. Soft marbleized paper. Detached front.
A file with dozens of music notes: Yiddish, Chassidic, Zionist and traditional songs for Shabbat and the High Holy Days. Printed notes from Europe and many handwritten notes, all of the leaves are with the personal stamp (some of them are signed) of Y. Segal Rosenbach. Europe and Israel, 1930’s-1950’s.
Dozens of leaves, some with handwritten notes.
The cantor and composer Y. Segal Rosenbach, known for his lyrical tenor voice. His biographical details are unknown, apart from a poster from 1932 which announces that “The cantor Y. Segal Rosenbach has acquired a reputation in the music world, the German media greatly praises him”. After his immigration to Israel he appeared many times (in the 1950’s) at important cultural events, and served as cantor on the High Holy Days. He put out many disks of rare Yiddish songs. His songs and melodies were preserved in the website zamreshet, and in the Sound Archives of the National Library. Seeing that the cantor dealt with preserving unknown songs, it is possible that some of the songs in this file are exclusive.
Moderate – fine condition.
Deep mourning for the Jewish people. Eulogy for the author of Chafetz Chaim at the Meah She’arim yeshivah in Jerusalem, in the presence of Jerusalem rabbis, led by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook. [Jerusalem] Salomon Press [1933]. Especially rare. Not found in the National Library.
The poster also declares a bitul melechah [work stoppage] on behalf of the chief rabbinate in all cities in the Land of Israel during the eulogy. As dictated by custom, Rabbi Kook was the one who determined the special text of the announcement.
The eulogy took place on the day of burial. Sunday, 26 Elul, 1933.
The first to speak was the gaon Yisrael, Rabbeinu Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, shlit”a, chief rabbi of the Land of Israel and the ga’ava”d of the Holy City. Following him was Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi Yosef Gershon Horowitz, Rabbi Y. M. Charlop, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky and a representative of Chief Rabbi Ya’akov Meir.
As is known, Rabbi Amram Blau lashed out against Rabbi Kook in the midst of the eulogy. This resulted in a huge storm and even the British Police intervened to restore order so the eulogy could continue. Following this, Rabbi Amram Blau was relieved of his position as editor of the Kol Yisrael journal. Material attached.
[1] leaf paper. 50×70 cm.
Moderate-fine condition. Slight tears with lack. Minimal stains.
Victoria Psalms: specially composed for the service at the Great Synagogue, London. In honor of Queen Victoria’s fiftieth birthday. London, June 21, 1887.
[5] leaves, 25 pages of notes. 26 cm. English.
Booklet of music notes with musical renditions of Psalms, composed for the fiftieth birthday celebration of Queen Victoria by noted cantor Marcus Hast (1840-1911), cantor in the Great Synagogue in London. Appropriate chapters of Psalms were selected. The introduction includes an original, adapted English translation of the Psalms (although the words of the Hebrew verses were sung). For example, a verse in Chapter 61 is translated: Let our Queen abide before thee in mercy and love.
Exceptionally rare work. Only one other copy is known, in the HUC library in New York.
Original blue paper jacket, with title page text. Margins have been professionally restored. The leaves of the booklet are in very fine condition.
Passport, with picture and signature, of pianist Arthur Rubinstein. United States, 1955-1958.
[1] passport, 57 pages – 27 are extra added pages. Signature and picture, along with dozens of signatures and visas from countries throughout the world, from 1955 to 1958.
Arthur Rubenstein was one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. He was educated in Warsaw and Berlin, and went on his first international tour at the age of 19, touring Europe and the United States. He lived in the US during the Second World War and received citizenship in 1946. He played for over eight decades! He was internationally acclaimed, in particular for his classic renditions and for his encouragement of Spanish music. He won a number of Grammy awards. He was a friend of Israel, while maintaining his love for his homeland, Poland.
This passport is actually a log of Rubenstein’s travels that includes the signatures of 19 countries where he visited and performed between 1955 and 1958, including Israel and countries in Europe and Central and South America.
Very fine condition.
Large archive from the Adat Yeshurun community in Frankfurt with hundreds of documents, letters, posters and other items of ephemera, including many posters and letters from the different sides of the huge dispute with the Frankfurt rabbinate at the end of the 1920s.
Kehillat Adat Yeshurun was founded in Frankfurt in the middle of the 19th century by members of the separatist community in Frankfurt led by Rabbi Shamshon Raphael Hirsch. They were very particular about total separation from the Reform community. After the passing of Rabbi Shamshon Raphael Hirsch, his son-in-law Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Breuer succeeded him as rabbi of the community and its rosh yeshivah until his passing in 1926.
With his passing (and actually even previously) a dispute began in the community about the identity of his successor. Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Breuer was interested in his son Rabbi Raphael being appointed his successor (in 1924 he even turned to the Va’ad HaKehillah with a request that they approve the appointment of R’ Raphael as his assistant and replacement in some of his positions, but the Va’ad refused, as they wanted to reserve the right to choose the rabbi on their own). Those opposed requested the appointment of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Klein, rabbi of the Orthodox community in Nuremberg. The dispute continued at full force until 1929, when Rabbi Yosef Yonah Tzvi Horowitz of Slovakia was appointed to the position.
Dozens of posters, journals and many leaflets from this period.
Provenance: Heirs of one of the members of the community in those years.
The collection has not been carefully examined and is being sold as is. There may be many more pearls in it.
* https://web.archive.org/web/20150725224044/http://www.michtavim.com/Seforim/MBShapiroFrankfurt.pdf
* Yehudah ben Avner, ‘For the Controversy over the Rabbinate in Adat Yeshurun in Frankfurt am Main in the 1920s, ‘ Sinai , 106b (1990) pp. 72-79.
Financial report of the Salonika community, written in Ladino. [8] pp. 30 cm. Very fine condition.
Binder of documents belonging to a British Jewish soldier, Noah Griver, who served in the framework of the engineer’s corps – REME. The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – REME – was an independent munitions unit established by the British in 1942, for the purpose of supplying high-quality arms services to the forces in North Africa, services which were essential to supply independently due to the distance from England. There were 4 Jewish companies in the forces, which were mainly staffed by EretzYisraeli volunteers and Jews. The collection contains: * 58 photographs from the early 1940s. EretzYisraeli photographs: The Western Wall, the Temple Mount, Yad Avshalom, the Old City, the Mount of Olives, the kings’ tomb, and other photographs from Jerusalem. Photographs from the battle for North Africa and from his army service: Photographs from El Alamein, Tobruk, Benghazi; from Cairo – including the pyramids, the Sphinx, etc.; from Sicily, Naples and Mount Vazov. * Personal letters from the period of the war. * War medal from his army service: The “Africa Star,” with a rosette at center and emblems of his unit. * Telegram sent to him as a member of a veterans’ society, with an invitation to an urgent meeting on the occasion of the establishment of the State of Israel, on May 14, 1948.
Collection of photographs taken by Austrian photographer Theodor Kofler in the British detention camps Sidi Bishr and Ras-al-Tin near Alexandria, where they held citizens of enemy countries during the war. The photographs show the daily life of the prisoners, including sporting events, visits, Shanah Tovah cards and more, and including a large group picture of the detainees in Camp A. The prisoners are German, Austrian and Turkish; Kofler himself is a prisoner in the camp. There are many Jews among the detainees, which can be seen from the many Jewish names in the group picture. The lot also includes scans of Red Cross documents including the full names of some of the detainees. Some are undoubtedly Jewish, with family names such as Cohen, Levi, Migdalsky; Avraham Ya’akov Sapir, Samuel Goldstein; and regarding some of the others, we have information about their being Jewish – Franz and Max Strauss, Oscar Horowitz, and Dr. Sabrin Finxfeld. Theodor Kofler (1877-1957) was an Austrian photographer. He became famous as the first photographer to take aerial photographs of the Great Pyramids of Giza in 1914. Group photograph: 29×20 cm; the rest of the photographs are approximately postcard sized. Fine condition, reasonable wear, minimal light tears and creases. The large photograph has tears that were repaired from the back with tape.
After Israeli hero David Raziel was killed in Iraq in 1941, his family made great efforts for his remains to be brought to the Land of Israel. Before us is an official letter from the Iraqi consul in Jerusalem, in which he informs the Raziel family that the government of Iraq responded to their request, authorizing transfer of David Raziel’s remains to the Land of Israel. Two letters, in one the consul appeals to the authorities in Iraq requesting a status report regarding transferring Raziel’s remains (a copy of the letter sent to the Raziel family), and in the second, the consul informs the families that the statutory authorities in Iraq decided to authorize the transfer of Raziel’s remains to the Land of Israel. The letter was sent in August of 1947, and it can be assumed that it became irrelevant due to the establishment of the state of Israel. David Raziel (1910-1941) was the commander of Etze”l. He studied at the Mercaz HaRav yeshivah in his youth, where he studied b’chavruta with Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah Kook and with Rabbi Avraham Shapira, who both later led the yeshivah. He was one of the founders of Etze”l after it was decided to break off from the Haganah. Jabotinsky remarked after meeting with him that he had waited 15 years to meet a man like Raziel, and he decided to appoint him commissioner of Beita”r in the Land of Israel. After the outbreak of WWII, Etze”l decided to join the British in the war against the Nazis (which led the Leh”i to leave). Raziel was appointed by the British to lead a small commando unit sent to Iraq. Raziel was killed there in an attack on Fallujah. Raziel was buried by the British in Habbaniyah. After his death, many attempts were made to persuade the Iraqi government to transfer his remains to the Land of Israel. This letter shows that authorization was already given in August 1947, which was certainly cancelled due to the establishment of the State of Israel. The Iraqis only agreed to transfer his remains in 1955, on condition that he be interred in Cyprus and not in Israel. In 1961 Menachem Begin succeeded in influencing the new leader of Cyprus, and on 28 Adar, Raziel’s funeral was held at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem with the attendance of thousands of people. [2] letters, 16.5×20 cm. The letter with the news of the transfer of the remains, with an official stationery blank of the Iraqi consul in Jerusalem and an imprint of the emblem of Iraq. Fine condition, brown stain produced by staples.
* Greetings for the new year (1918) written by Major General John Hill, commander of the 52nd infantry division, to its officers and its soldiers. Hill summarizes the year 1917, the fourth year of the war, a great year for the Allies in Europe, and a greater year for the British in every part of the world, and the greatest year for the 52nd Division (Lowland). “You have never failed me, you went from trench warfare to open warfare, and again to hill warfare. Always cheerful, always victorious, no matter how difficult the operation.” Hill continues, noting the Auja (Yarkon) crossing, pointing out that this was the hardest operation he called upon them to carry out, the difficulties were enormous. He proudly points out the dash and determination of his Scottish fighters. Beyond the infantry, he also notes the artillery corps, the divisional train (logistics), the Lowland ambulances, and the signal company (communications). He concludes the letter with a call to the soldiers to guard their honor not only in battle, but also during rest and recreation, and pleads with them to not become drunk and to maintain discipline. * Special Order of the Day- copies of telegrams of greetings sent by generals to the forces after the victory in the battle for the Land of Israel. Including greetings from King George, Hassein Kamil – Sultan of Egypt, as well as from other Egyptian generals and leaders, including responses to them. * Special Order from General H. A. Lawrence, with a summary of the battles (including the capture of 3000 prisoners, 4 guns and 6 machine guns with their German crews). 8 August, 1916. [6] pages, various sizes. Fine-very fine condition, fold marks.
Lodzer Yuddischer Informatzions Kalendar. Book with all the information necessary for Lodz Jews in 1911, including many advertisements for Jewish businesses, a calendar for the 1911 year, geographic information for world countries, much information about world Jewry, a book of Jewish business addresses in Lodz, and much more. Original blue binding with gilt imprint. Fine-very fine condition, detached spine.
