* Plaster bust of renowned physicist Albert Einstein. Part of the left ear is lacking. 19 cm.
* Bronze bust of State visionary Binyamin Ze’ev Herzl. Very fine condition. 21 cm.
Colorful and impressive ceramic figure: three thick-bearded Jews sitting around a wooden table looking into a book (written in Yiddish) by David Kaplan, 1970.
The work is numbered 30/500 and signed: Kaplan.
21x17x38 cm, 3.76 kg. Very fine condition.
Bar Mitzvah boy wrapped in tallit and crowned in tfillin, lectern and siddur in the background. Etching by artist Hermann Struck. Artist’s signature on the lower right corner (in pencil).
Hermann Struck [1876-1944] was the leading Jewish artist who ascended to the Land of Israel. He contributed to the development of graphic arts in Israel more than any other artist there. Honorable status is reserved for him in Israel’s cultural life. He was born to an Orthodox family in Berlin. At the beginning of his career as an artist, he became famous as one of the most important Jewish artists in Germany following the publication of his famous portrait of Theodor Herzl [ Portrait of Theodor Herzl ] in light of his deep impression of Herzl following their 1903 meeting in Vienna. He published The Art of Etching in 1908, which details the process of printing etchings. The book was very successful and made its author the leading name in the field of etchings in the entire art world. His students included Chagall, Max Liebermann and Jozef Israëls. Struck was an enthusiastic Zionist activist. He ascended to the Land of Israel in 1922 and built his home on the Carmel. He continued visiting his studio in Berlin on an annual basis until 1933 when he started to deal with founding the new Bezalel in the Land of Israel.
22×17 cm.
Very fine condition.
* Chassid . 8×5 cm.
* Jew Praying . 3×5 cm. Numbered 1/50.
* Rabbinic Figure . 21×18 cm, print.
Hermann Struck [1876-1944] was the leading Jewish artist who ascended to the Land of Israel. He contributed to the development of graphic arts in Israel more than any other artist there. Honorable status is reserved for him in Israel’s cultural life. He was born to an Orthodox family in Berlin. At the beginning of his career as an artist, he became famous as one of the most important Jewish artists in Germany following the publication of his famous portrait of Theodor Herzl [ Portrait of Theodor Herzl ] in light of his deep impression of Herzl following their 1903 meeting in Vienna. He published The Art of Etching in 1908, which details the process of printing etchings. The book was very successful and made its author the leading name in the field of etchings in the entire art world. His students included Chagall, Max Liebermann and Jozef Israëls. Struck was an enthusiastic Zionist activist. He ascended to the Land of Israel in 1922 and built his home on the Carmel. He continued visiting his studio in Berlin on an annual basis until 1933 when he started to deal with founding the new Bezalel in the Land of Israel.
All the etchings include the artist’s signature. Overall very fine condition.
Jew examining his fingernails by the light of a havdalah candle. A wine goblet and spice tower are on the table in front of him. Etching by artist Hermann Struck. His signature appears on the lower left corner (in pencil).
Hermann Struck [1876-1944] was the leading Jewish artist who ascended to the Land of Israel. He contributed to the development of graphic arts in Israel more than any other artist there. Honorable status is reserved for him in Israel’s cultural life. He was born to an Orthodox family in Berlin. At the beginning of his career as an artist, he became famous as one of the most important Jewish artists in Germany following the publication of his famous portrait of Theodor Herzl [ Portrait of Theodor Herzl ] in light of his deep impression of Herzl following their 1903 meeting in Vienna. He published The Art of Etching in 1908, which details the process of printing etchings. The book was very successful and made its author the leading name in the field of etchings in the entire art world. His students included Chagall, Max Liebermann and Jozef Israëls. Struck was an enthusiastic Zionist activist. He ascended to the Land of Israel in 1922 and built his home on the Carmel. He continued visiting his studio in Berlin on an annual basis until 1933 when he started to deal with founding the new Bezalel in the Land of Israel.
17×23 cm. Placed in a passe-partout and wooden frame and covered in glass 34×41 cm.
Very fine condition.
Elderly woman modestly dressed and wearing a coif, lighting Shabbat candles in a 4-armed candelabra. The blessing over the candles is etched on the bottom of the carving in English.
25×20; fine condition. Slight blemishes.
Jewish marriage contract from Nabuel, Tunisia. The ketubah is signed by Yitzchak ben Amos Chadad, Nissim ben Yehudah Chadad and Chaim Ozen.
[1] leaf, 30×31 cm.
Fine-very fine condition, restored paper.
Ketubah and tena’ei ketubah signed and postage-stamped from the WWII era.
Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria and one of the most ancient cities in Europe. Plovdiv had a large Jewish community whose leaders served for many years as the leaders of the Zionist Federation of Bulgaria. With the rise of the Nazis, many of the Jews of Bulgaria were deported and the aktions stopped in 1943. This ketubah is one of the only indications of the revival of the Plovdiv Jewry in particular and the Bulgarian Jewry in general.
Approximately two months after the wedding (which took place in Elul-September), there was a Communist revolution in Bulgaria, which again led to the dwindling of the community.
[1] printed leaf with pen handwriting. 48×31 cm.
Signatures of the witnesses, the groom and the bride in a foreign language. Hebrew signature of the Chazan “Yitzchak Blau.” Postage-stamps and stamps.
Fine condition. Fold marks, tears along the folds. Aging stains.
Pair of miniature Tefillin, “nano-tefillin,” – the tefillin boxes are 16 mm in size!
The tefillin are made from thin animal leather and include straps. The traditional ‘ש’ is engraved in the tefillin shel rosh. The ma’abarata is sewn with sinew, as is customary. The batim were not opened, and their kashrut has not been examined.
The tefillin are placed in a hand-embroidered velvet case. The words “Western Wall, Souvenir of Jerusalem” [in Hebrew] are embroidered on the case, with an embroidered picture of the Western Wall.
Size of the tefillin-boxes (including the ma’abarata): 17x15x16 mm; moderate condition.
Wooden box, made of olive wood, which served as a jewelry box. There are two flying birds pictured on the box (one with an olive branch in its mouth?) and the word “Jerusalem,” decorated with fine mosaic work. To open the box, the box must be moved over its base, such that one of the panels can be dropped to reveal the key hole. (Key not included.)
10x11x16 cm.
Very fine condition, missing key.
Meggilat Esther, printed scribal script with vowelization. Blue ink on sheets of paper rolled on a beautiful wooden handle.
The megillah is accompanied along its entire length with pictures on the bottoms of the pages: Achashverosh’s banquet, Mordechai sitting at the palace gate, the messengers running, Haman’s lottery, hanging Haman, the Jews’ wars, and more.
Written at the beginning of the megillah: “Please take my blessing, brought to you at my Bar Mitzvah, Moshe Ezer Chalabi.”
126×14 cm. 16 columns.
Artistic Scroll of Ruth written and illustrated by painter Arieh Allweil.
The letters of the text were designed by Allweil in a custom calligraphy, and he added linocut illustrations to them. Printed on folded leaves.
Arieh Allweil was born in 1901 in Galicia and passed away in 1967 in Safed. Painter and illustrator. Awarded the Dizengoff Prize for painting.
41 pp. 21 cm. Fine condition. Aging stains. Cloth-covered binding (slightly unravelled at the edges) and reinforced with tape.
