Beit Ya’akov – central journal of the Beit Ya’akov movement in Poland. Yiddish-language journal edited by Eliezer Gershon Friedenson. Lodzash, Warsaw, Krakow. 1924-1939. Valuable historic material for period scholars and historians.
Journal of the large movement founded by Sarah Schenirer, a sacred movement backed by leading Admo”rim and rabbis. Many articles throughout the journals are authored by Sarah Schenirer herself. There are also articles in her memory, as she passed away during the years these issues were printed. The journals also contain hundreds of articles from all leaders and thinkers of the Beit Ya’akov and Agudat Yisrael movements. In each issue, there is an expanded sheet about what is going on in the movement across the breadth of Poland. There are also announcements of various occasions, with thousands(!) of names of students, instructors, teachers and principals in the organization.
The unique journals before us enfold within them the most significant and tragic period in the history of the Jewish people from its inception as a nation – and this from the most interesting perspective, one apparently never researched – the feminine angle! Beginning in 1927 – Europe between the two World Wars, in Poland – the metropolis and center of the Jewish world, in which Admori”m and rabbis gathered and from where guidance for the Jewish people emerged. These journals also discussed the activities of the Chachmei Lublin yeshivah – the largest yeshivah in the world, and obviously, the Beit Ya’akov movement, which brings together the best of Chareidi youth – students and teachers both. It discusses ascent to the Land of Israel – legal and illegal – that students of the Beit Ya’akov movement undertook, and inseparable from that, the revival of the Jewish people in its Land. All this against a backdrop of the Nazi rise to power and the collapse of institutions in the country on its way to making Poland Judenrein and the total annihilation of its Jews, all the way through the issue that was printed in the Land of Israel after the destruction in Europe. In the journals before us, one can view, directly and unmediated, the Jewish phenomenon that preserved the existence of the Jewish people throughout its years in exile: A Yiddishe Mamme [with apologies to our readers, there is simply no translation that can possibly capture this wondrous phenomenon].
[13] volumes with hundreds of issues, 12 volumes in large format and one volume in small format. Overall fine condition: Fragile paper, tears, completeness not examined.
Extremely rare: two thick volumes of the newspaper Dos Yiddische Licht . [New York], 1925-1927. The National Library’s collection contains issues from 1924-1925 only, and this colection contains more than 150 additional issues!
The newspaper contains many news items about events in the Land of Israel and Jewish communities of the USA, the Jewish colonies in Russia, the visit of rabbis to the USA (Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzki and many more), advertisements, some of them designed by the wonderful graphics of the ‘New World’. In addition, the newspaper contained a section dedicated to riddles and Divrei Torah by the Admo”r of Kobrin and an additonal section by Rabbi Shemarya Horowitz, one of the leaders of orthodox Jewry in the USA at the time.
The newspaper was first published as a daily (until issue 217) and at a certain stage, became a weekly (from issue 218 and onward).
* Volume I: Issue 92 (Elul 1925) to issue 219 (Adar 1926).
* Volume II: Issue 220 (Adar 1926) to issue 253 (Adar B 1927).
Sizes vary. maximal size – 47X30 cm. Yiddish and some English.
Moderate overall condition. Two leaves were bound upside down. Several leaves are detached. Many tears to the margins of the leaves, mostly without lacks. The lacks to the leaves have not been examined. This lot is sold as is.
Two volumes including over 540 daily newspapers in Yiddish, Dos Yiddishe Vort , Warsaw, 1917-1919.
The National Library’s collection contains issues from 1918 only, and this collection contains close to 300 additional issues!
This newspaper printed, inter alia , much valuable historic information about the harsh condition of the Jews at the time – during WWI.
* Year 1: From issue 3 (12 Shevat 1917) to issue 262 (3 Tevet 1918)
* Year 2: From issue 2 (18 Tevet 1918) to issue 251 (27 Tevet 1918)
* Year 3: From issue 2 (1 Shevat 1919) to issue 38 (12 Adar I 1919). It is unknown if any others were published.
Two thick volumes for a total of over 540 issues! Various sizes, maximum size 41×58 cm. The total weight of all these issues is over 14 kg! The third year issues are bound together with the first year issues.
Poor condition. Creases. Wear and tear to many leaves. Aging stains. Fragile paper, dry and brittle. Whether there are leaves that are lacking has not been checked. This lot is being sold as is.
Huge and rare collection including seven volumes comprising over 1500 daily and weekly issues of the prominent newspaper Der Yid with a total weight of over 45 kg! Warsaw 1919-1927. Valuable collection, precious find, with a treasure trove of historic documentation of one of the most important historical periods for the Jewish nation.
The newspaper Der Yid served as the Chareidi/Orthodox organ in Poland, and it includes a tremendous treasure chest of historic information about pre-Holocaust Jewish life in Poland. Chareidi Jewish opinion in contrast to that of the Zionists, was refined in this newspaper. There is much information about Agudat Yisrael brought in these pages, as well as about the magnificent Chachmei Lublin yeshivah (including the historic announcement about the beginning of the study of Daf Yomi!!), information about what was going on in the Land of Israel, and more. The editor of this newspaper was the Gur activist Baruch Kaminer.
Printed newspapers, and certainly daily newspapers, are especially rare, for several reasons. 1) Newspapers are a product meant to provide up-to-date news, and as such, most subscribers discarded a newspaper after finishing reading it. 2) Not all subscribers subscribed to a newspaper during all the years of its existence. 3) Very few people who subscribed to newspapers kept all the issues and then bound them so they would be preserved even longer. 4) A very large amount of books were burned and destroyed by the Nazi enemy, may their names be obliterated. 5) Those who made the effort to save a minimal amount of books during the Holocaust and thereafter, preferred investing their efforts in saving sacred sefarim , and not newspapers.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for specifications of the volumes and the issues.
Also included: A volume of Vochenblatt Yid , issues 1-31 (19 Shevat-22 Elul 1925).
Various sizes. Maximum size: Approximately 40×56 cm, for a total of eight thick volumes.
Poor-moderate condition. Many leaves are detached and torn. Aging stains. Fragile paper, dry and brittle. Lacks in the leaves of the issues have not been completed. This lot is being sold as is.
A volume containing [95] consecutive issues – an entire year, of the important newspaper El Tiempo, which was printed in Ladino. Istanbul, September 25, 1925 – September 8, 1926.
Printed on the top of the issues is the title El Tiempo in Hebrew and Arabic and beneath it, the subtitle – “Afarisi el Martis e il B’iernis di Kad’ah Simanah”. The newspaper introduced current news from varied countries and cities. A special emphasis was put on news from Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire. The issues also contained literary and scholarly passages as well as controversies and analyses of current affairs.
This newspaper, which is truly a precious find, serves as a rare, maybe even unique, historical source for studying the life of the Jewish communities of Turkey and for studying Ladino, which in the heat of Zionism has almost been forgotten.
El Tiempo was founded in Istanbul in 1872 by Chaim Cremona and is considered the first newspaper that was printed in Ladino and the most important of all Ladino newspapers in general. It was first published as a daily newspaper and since 1875, was published as a periodical. In 1910, David Fresco was appointed its manager and editor until his retirement in 1930. After his retirement, additional issues were not published.
Refer to Hebrew catalog text for an article about the El Tiempo newspaper.
966 pp. issues 1-95, an entire year with no lacks. Some of the issues are of 4 leaves and some of 6 leaves. 37X26.5 cm.
Fine condition. Aging stains. Dampness stains and some mold to the lower part of the issues. At the end of the volume, lacks and folds to the lower right corner of several leaves, far from the text. A small perforation to leaves 177-178, with damage to single letters. Page 885 was printed (originally) close to the edge of the leaf and the margins of the lines were cropped in their last letters. Original binding, simple and worn.
26 issues of the journal “Lund Sweden,” edited by Pappa Sandberg, 1955-1964.
The issues were written in Swedish, and distributed regularly each Jewish holiday. They covered Jewish affairs regarding the renewed Jewish Land of Israel. The journals are accompanied by photographs portraying the Israeli experience of the mid-1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, in relation to different aspects of the holiday.
Some of the issues cover historical topics such as the Holocaust and Jewish communities around the world.
A rare series of issues, not appearing in the National Library.
Two of the issues are doubled. Some of the issues have stains. In overall good condition.
Una mirada es la historia Otomana con la buena vida dil sultano es Salonika… Salonika, [1860].
A review of Ottoman history with the blessed arrival of the Sultan Abdulmejid I in Salonika. And several additional articles on the subject.
A unique and interesting composition on the life of the Jews in Ottoman Turkey. With a most extensive description of the visit of the Sultan to Salonika and the part of the Jews in the visit. With a Hebrew (!) song in honor of the Sultan which the Jews sang during the visit. And with a geographical description of European Turkey. Contains information on the timetable of fairs in the Empire, on the Islamic calendar and a list of Sultans.
In most of the copies there are only 74 pages; the list of Sultans is printed on the last page and then there is a small illustration. So also in the copy of the National Library. To this copy, pp. 75-80 were added.
A rare book. Not listed in Ya’ari Ladino .
80 pp. 14 cm.
Very fine condition, aging stains. Original marble paper binding.
Or HaMussar journal , mouthpiece of the Novardok ‘Beit Yosef’ yeshivot in Poland. Piotrkow-Jerusalem-Tel Aviv. 1925-1938. Six booklets.
Content: Booklets: 9, 10, 14, 15, 16. The title page of booklet 15 is missing.
Unique Features: Especially rare booklets. Booklet 16 is not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. Booklets 1-7 were printed by stencil, not a single copy is known to have survived. Therefore, before us are six out of the nine known booklets.
Condition: Conditions vary. Overall fine condition.
Collection of 35 early, rare Torah anthologies and periodicals. Includes many first issues. Start of the 20th century – 1940s.
1. Digleinu – Literary anthology, mouthpiece of Orthodox youth in Poland. Shevat, 1922. Second year, issue 5. This issue includes the Maamar Elbona shel Torah by the Admor of Sokolov regarding the Zionist parties.
2. Ohel Torah – Torah monthly journal edited by Gershon Lapidut, with input from prominent rabbis and yeshiva students in the Land of Israel and around the world. Jerusalem. Year 1, Shevat 1926 – Av/Elul -1926. Issues 1-8 [beginning with the first issue published] and year 2, issue 1. Altogether 9 issues.
3. Synagogue Journal of the Beth HaMidrash HaGadol . Leeds, England. Issues 1-6, September 1944-June 1946.
4-6. Three anthologies of Torah, Literature and Philosophy, edited by Binyamin Glesner. “Pumbidita-Machoza” -1943; “Usha” – 1942, “Yavneh” – 1942. Published in Kolozhvar, Hungary.
7. “Chaduta Dishmatita” by Yekutiel Aryeh Kamelhar. Lemberg, 1912.
8. Ohel Moed – Talmudical compilation edited by Yekutiel Aryeh Kamelhar. Podgorze near Krakow, 1899.
9. Beit Vaad L’Chachamim , anthology of Torah novellae edited by Yosef Shimon Pollack, Satmar. Tishrei 1924, issue 24 – Elul 1924, issues 23-24. Altogether 20 issues.
10-11. Kol Yisrael . Monthly periodical for Torah and essays answering current questions published by the Histadrut Tzerei Agudat Yisrael, Jerusalem. Year 1, issue 1 Elul 1921 – Year 2, issue 2 Cheshvan, 1922.
12-14. Emek Halacha Torah compilation published once every two months. Edited by Simcha Elberg, Warsaw. Year 1 issue 1- 3rd of Nissan-Iyar 1926 Shevat Adar 1927, Year 3 issues 4-5 Shevat-Adar 1928.
15-16. Torah MiTzion . Monthly periodical edited by Rabbi Shimon Halperin. Jerusalem 1935 and 1936.
17. HaMeor . Monthly periodical dedicated to all branches of the Torah and Judaism, edited by M. Lisman. Tel Aviv Adar 1935. [Includes articles by HaRAY”H Kook and HaRav S. Y. Zevin].
18-20. HaKochav . Talmudic compilation edited by Yitzchak Sternhall, Brooklyn.
21-24. Degel HaRabbanim – Rabbinic, Talmudic anthology edited by Moshe Yehuda Kirshenbaum. Booklet 1 year 1 – Warsaw 1926; booklet 2 year two – Kislev 1927 Lodz ; Booklet 1 year 3 Lodz 1929.
25-27. Atidenu Monthly periodical for culture and education edited by Dr. Yechezkel Kaufman and Zvi Woyslawski, Berlin. Issues 1-3, January-March 1924.
28. Sefer HaVaad – compilation of necessary responsa from the leading rabbis of the time, manuscripts that were not yet printed, regarding issues relevant to practical halacha, edited by Reuven Lewinbuk. Piotrkow, 1914.
29. HaKerem – drush, elucidations and commentaries on the weekly Torah readings and holidays, with articles by leading rabbis and Torah scholars, edited by Kolonimus Kalmish Hoverband and Rabbi Shimon Yehuda Tropstein, Warsaw. First issue. Adar, 1927.
30. Ohr Torah – dedicated to Torah novellae regarding halacha and aggada, edited by Yosef Shaul Zucker, Chaim Dov HaLevi Madlinger and Reuven Horowitz. Issue 1. Lemberg, 1926.
31. Yavneh – monthly periodical for Judaism and literature. Lemberg, 1929. Issue 1 – year 1.
32-33. Yagdil Torah – Talmudic rabbinic anthology. Warsaw, year 1 – issues 1-2 [ Tishrei-Cheshvan 1927].
35. Ha’Orah – monthly periodical for Torah novellae in Torah, halacha, aggada … the central paper of the Mossad Tomchei Yeshivot HaOrtho in Transylvania, Romania. Edited by Aryeh Friedmann. Sivan, 1929. Year 1, issue 1.
Various sizes and conditions. Overall moderate – very fine condition.
Chamar – Gamal, a comic monthly publication edited by Itamar Ben Avi, the first and only issue published, Jerusalem 1909, published as a supplement of the “HaZvi” newspaper.
A Zionist monthly publication containing humorous texts alongside sarcastic ‘news’. Itamar Ben Avi was the first to bring western commercial norms to Israel, and brought a militant and sensationalist style. Among other things are cartoons in the form of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, and Aharoni the nature researcher.
[4] leaves. 30 cm. Stains. Slight tears. Moderate-fine condition.
* LaYehudim – “Iton Purimi, Naimi, Ti’imi, Intimi V’Anonimi,” Jerusalem 1923, ‘Editor: Gone.’ Issue No. 8. ‘ LaYehudim was the first humorous newspaper published in the Land of Israel, edited by Kaddish Yehudah Leib Sillman. Stains, fine condition.
* Vayzata – ‘Annual compilation published by Rechovot youth, the oldest “chutzpah” newspaper in Rechovot, for brazenness, mussar, Torah, and derech eretz: for questions of policy and zionism, practical and useless, for land and air, Jewish and Israeli, Hebrew and Arabic. Published once a year by a faction of clowns of the generation with a very, very limited guarantee.’ Editor-in-chief: Haman son of Hamdata, third year, third collection. A total of three issues were published. Stains. Fine condition.
Printed sermon delivered by Rev. de Sola Pool in the Sephardic synagogue ” Shearit Yisrael ” of New York on parashat Chayei Sarah, November 15, 1930. The sermon argues that the great innovations in the field of physics attributed to Einstein, along with his understanding of the material world, were embodied in Judaism long before, and were expounded more deeply and broadly than in Einstein’s great theories.
The sermon was articulated in sarcastic and critical language that negates Einstein’s world-renowned greatness, and is opened with words of cynical honor: “When Albert Einstein speaks, the world listens.” Rabbi Sola claims that Einstein’s theory of relativity is hinted at by several verses in the Psalms. He also claims that Einstein’s elucidations of verses with expressions of the Creator’s personification are mistaken in light of the correct interpretation, because he ignores Chazal’s principle, “The Torah speaks in human language.” He continues, quoting phrases from the hymn ‘Adon Olam,’ and the wording of the prayer service that express the smallness of man in the face of the Creator’s greatness, and attacks Einstein on basic elemental points in his thinking. The sermon is built in the form of debate, “Einstein tells us” on one side, and in opposition, the traditional Jewish worldview, embodied within the Writings in a manner far more profound and broad in comparison to the worldview of the great scientist.
This is an obscure sermon that was printed at the peak of the scientist’s world publicity [about two years before he emigrated to America].
Is not in the National Library, nor bibliographically listed.
Eight pages. 22 cm. Unbound. Slight tear in the margins of the leaves. The paper is slightly fragile. Fine condition.
Student’s paper from the “Bezalel Beit Medrash L’Melachot Omanut” for Zalman Levi Rosen, who entered the school in Elul 1926 and studied there for 13 days. The margins of the leaf feature the signature of Prof. Boris Schatz, the principal, along with the school stamp.
Size: 11×16 cm. Filing holes. Fine condition.
Collection of assorted letters from various cities throughout Poland, related to Jews, most are printed in Polish or Yiddish with handwritten supplements. 1900-1930.
Chaim Weiner’s membership certificate in the “League on Behalf of a Working Palestine in Poland,” 1931; immigration form from Warsaw; confirmation of a year’s study from 1914; employment confirmation for a babysitter; invitation to an evening of literature and art; fire insurance policy, 1918; deposit slip for 30 zloty in a Warsaw Bank; employment confirmation in the Children’s Aid Society in Chrzanow; letters written by Pinsker Shemitz; registration certificate from the Polish Interior Ministry, 1932; handwritten confirmation of employment as a teacher; documents from the children’s organization in Krynkach; confirmation of employment as a teacher in the Jewish school in Lublin, in Yiddish; handwritten document from the Polish wood factory; document from the immigration bureau in Warsaw; and other documents. Some of the documents feature Jewish names – Rubenstein, Leib Leibman [in Hebrew], Dr. Ilsa Mittelman and others.
About 30 documents in total, varying sizes and conditions.
The collection has not been thoroughly inspected.
Membership Card for the ‘Maccabee’ World Federation of Gymnastics and Sports 1927
The card is stamped twice and carries two renewal stamps for July-August 1927.
The world Maccabee movement was a zionistic sport movement established with the vision of Max Nordau which expressed the idea of a muscular Judaism. The first club was established in Constantinople in 1895. It was successful and similar Jewish clubs were established in European cities following it, with names such as ‘HaKoach,’ ‘Bar Kochva,’ and ‘HaGibor.’ The movement became worldwide in 1921.
Four pages. 13 cm. Creases and cracks. Fine condition.
Palestine Postal and Telegraph Administration (Land of Israel) July [1930]. Rare.
Single directory for all areas of the country including Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, and ‘Other Centers’ [cities in the south and north]. Telephone numbers comprising only three digits.
The directory opens with ‘Essence of telephone service’ with extremely basic instructions about how to make a telephone call for those using a telephone for the first time in their lives. [Three sides participate in a telephone call, they are: you yourself, the center and the distant subscriber, a successful telephone call is possible only with these three sides, it is impossible without them.’] And basic instructions about how to use the telephone, how to converse and how to answer the call. After that is a list of ‘names of subscribers’ which opens with of the telephone numbers of ‘His Excellency the High Commissioner’ with the symbol of the British Mandate, a list of the telephone numbers of the ‘Government Departments’ [‘Agriculture and Forestry, ‘Deputy County Commissioner’s Offices,’ ‘Telephone numbers of the Army and Air Force’ and others].
Interesting telephone numbers can be found, such as that of the Jamal brothers [publishers of the famous postcards], Rothschild Hospital, the English Mission, ‘HaIvri’ Press, ‘The Ashkenazic Chevrah Kaddishah,’ ‘The Palestine Automobile Society,’ ‘United Elder Society,’ ‘The Hospital for Infectious Diseases,’ ‘HaBimah – The Hebrew Theater,’ ‘Asis, the Society for the Production of Fruits of the Land,’ and more.
As such, the directory includes price lists for international calls to Egypt, to Transjordan, intercity calls, postage rates for the Palestine Postal and Telegraph Administration, air mail, many advertisements, and more. Rare.
The various chapters are separated by dividers which were designed as part of the directory.
Brittle brown paper, rust marks near the staples, tears. Moderate condition.
Telephone directory for Jaffa-Tel Aviv, 1946.
Telephone numbers only have four digits. The page following the title page includes a chart with “instructions for turning the dial.” The directory includes Arabic surnames. At the top of each page there is instructions: Don’t say, “Hello, what’s your name?”; speak clearly; speak directly into the receiver; Wrong number? Say you’re sorry; if there’s no answer try again a little later; answer the telephone right away; hang up the receiver before dialing again; with any complaints, speak to the supervisor.
The directory includes interesting listings, such as: Spain – department for German relations; appointed government doctor; Israeli manufacturers union; Asis – Society for Israeli produce, and more.
One of the first telephone directories published for specific cities in Palestine [Prior to this edition, a one volume directory was sufficient for the entire country]. Telephone directories for the Northern and Southern cities were published in separate volumes in the 1940s.
76 leaves. 23 cm. Stained binding. Fine condition.
* The African Central Committee Jerusalem 1905, Salamon Press. The African Central Committee’s advertising brochure – united public enterprises, fathers of the settlement in Jerusalem for charity activities in the Negev Africa for the above institutions. Its income is from the Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes charity, Talmud Torah and Bikur Cholim, supporters and contributions. Four-page brochure, Hebrew, English and Yiddish with additional title page in English “The African Central Committee” with a list of institutions who support the committee and their missions. 14 cm. Very fine condition.
* Etz Chaim Calendar 1955 – Calendar with pictures of rabbinical leaders and quotes of their words regarding the exalted activities and the Torah importance of Yeshivat Etz Chaim. Quotes from each leader regarding Etz Chaim’s Talmud Torah and Yeshiva beside his picture. Pictures and quotes from, among others, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Maran the Chafetz Chaim, the Admor Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter of Gur, Sir Moses Montefiore and additional rabbis. pictures showing the Talmud Torah and Yeshiva are parallel to each page.
Unknown. Does not appear in the National Library.
[16] leaves. 15cm. Illustrated cover, front and back. Very fine condition.
Wall calendar with a detailed chart of the 613 mitzvot according to Maimonides. Printed by R’ Shmuel Yosef son of Yitzchak Finn and R’ Avraham Zvi son of Yosef Rosenkrantz.
The calendar is divided between the mitzvahs between man and G-d and the mitzvahs between man and his fellow, with a source for each mitzvah in the Torah, Talmud, Maimonides and commentaries. On the bottom, near the [Hebrew] title “Seder HaTorah V’HaMitzvah V’Tahlochotav,” are instructions for reading the calendar.
The copy in the National Library is missing some text. This copy is complete.
[1] leaf. Size: 68×48 cm. Fold marks, minimal tears. Stains.
Moderate-fine condition.
* Mafteach L’Kvoa Itim – calendar for 1850-2000 by L. Cohen. Published by J. Kauffmann, Frankfurt A.M. 1901. German and Hebrew. With the names of the Hebrew months and handwritten notes with yartzheit dates. [161] pages, 21 cm. Fine condition.
* Ewiger Kalendar – Calendar for 1900 by Lazar Rapaport, printed by Gebruder Brocker. Koln [Germany]. Printed leaf in a floral decorative border with instructions in German. Fold mark with light tear, fine condition.
Calendar for the year 5695 [1935], published by La Maison Maurice-Beer, Paris. The calendar was issued by the Director-General of the Jewish Funeral Homes – Administration Generale des Funerailles pour le Culte Israelite. The end of the calendar has several interesting additions- t he names of the rabbinical members of the Constituency of Paris, their roles and addresses, and kaddish in both for Ashkenazic and Sephardic versions.
The calendar does not appear in the National Library.
32 pages. 13 cm. Stains. Fine condition.
‘Etz Chaim’ Torah and Building fund. Jerusalem. Rare advertisement brochure of the fundraising foundation for the ‘Etz Chaim’ yeshiva and Talmud Torah in Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Salomon Press, c. [1930] Yiddish and English.
The brochure contains photographs from the Etz Chaim neighborhood, the yeshiva building, students of the yeshiva and architectural plans for the ‘Etz Chaim’ building in Machaneh-Yehudah in Jerusalem. Letters of recommendation are brought at the end of the booklet – a joint letter signed in print by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook and Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, and an additional letter from Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Zeleznik and others.
In 1908 Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky initiated buying a large property in Machaneh Yehudah where a branch of the yeshiva in the old city was established. This booklet was intended to let people know the plans for the building of the yeshiva and kollel. The date is according to the bibliography.
25, [1] page. 24×16 cm.
Detached binding, faded and stained. Fine condition.
Volume containing 1-8 preparatory issues from the 20th through 31st of May, 1967 [the week and a half of preparation for war], and battle issues 1-3, from the 6th through the 9th of June, 1967 [the first three days after the outbreak of war]. Published by the air force command. Cover designed by Shamir
The issues offer a detailed review of the preparation for war, army preparations, strategies, ammunition and a description of various stages of war. Includes tens of photos from the war, some on entire pages; of soldiers, training, aerial photos of IDF bombardments, air force planes over Cairo, the Western Wall and more.
Altogether 11 issues. 38 cm. Fine condition.
Two emphatic letters with the signature of Golda Meir, b eginning of the 1950’s.
* Interesting letter from 23/5/1954 encouraging aliya and settlement, while she served as labor minister – stencil print with her signature. The letter is addressed to the minister of finance, then Levi Eshkol, in which she comes out against the claim by the Amidar company for new immigrant housing that it has completed its task, given that most of the immigrants are already in Israel. She ascribes the economic distress of the company as the true reason they desire to end their activity, and not the fact the most immigrants are already in Israel, and concludes: ‘We cannot cut off undertaking aliyah and settlement. I hope “Amidar” settles many more tens of thousands of immigrants in the State of Israel.’
Letter from 21/6/1953 on the topic of division of property in the Ein Charod farm. Stencil print with her signature. The letter is addressed to the secretary of the Histadrut labor federation, then Mordechai Namir. In the letter, Golda opposes the Histadrut’s authorization of distribution of property seized by force from members to the Ein Charod farm. ‘The agreement of the Histadrut to a situation like this will bring discord among the members and will cause “power struggles”.’
[2] leaves. Identical size. 22×16. Filing holes. Fold marks. Very fine condition.
