* Lunario Ebraico per L’anno by Giuseppe Franco. Venice, 1869. Pocket-sized calendar for 1869. Venice, Italy. Calendar in Italian. * Lunario Israelitico. Pocket-sized calendar for 1889 by Rab. Mag. Cav. F. Servi. Italian and Hebrew. Includes additional advertisements [Jewish stores selling kosher meat etc.] * Lunario Israelitico. Pocket-sized calendar for 1897 by Rab. Mag. Cav. F. Servi. Italian and Hebrew. Ends with advertisements [Jewish stores etc.]. * Two pocket-sized calendars published in Kovno during the Nazi reign; calendar for 1935 published by Beit Mischar Sefarm G. Gutman, Kovno. Includes advertisements. Calendar for 1938 published by Beit Mischar Sefarim G. Gutman, Kovno. * Calendar for 1933, Frankfurt A.M. Published under Nazi rule. Includes the prayer times in the Frankfurt A.M. synagogue, seder sefirat ha’omer and advertisements. * Izraelita Zsebnaptar. Pocket-sized calendar for 1947-8, includes the sha’ar hatzlacha, mechiyat Amalek and the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Budapest [Hungary]. Includes prayers and advertisements. Hungarian and Hebrew. * Calendar for [1924] by D. Rosenberg, Berlin. Includes prayer times, advertisements [Rosenberg book merchants, Berlin], and more. * Calendar for 1940 from the Torah V’Yirah Yeshiva, Jerusalem 1940. Printed at the Diskin Orphanage Press. Yiddish and Hebrew. * [12] calendars, [10] of which are pocket-sized. Including: two calendars in Yiddish with the customs of the Vilna synagogue [1916], Vilna [1918], including advertisements; Calendar for 1920, Leipzig, including illustrated advertisements; Calendar for [1929], Frankfurt A.M., includes prayer times in the Central Frankfurt Synagogue in 1929. The pocket-sized calendars are about 10 cm., other than 2 which are 20 cm. Aging stains. Generally fine condition.
* Calendar through 1959, including moldot and tekufot. With all the holidays and fasts and predictions regarding the weather, price of living, medicine and more. Warsaw, [1845]. The colophon at the end of the calender features the printer’s name:…Avraham Mordechai b. Isser Rappaport. The calendar opens with the year 1846, including various charts, a large illustration of a palm with signs for designating the tekufot hashana and a lenghty explanation for understanding the hints. The last pages features hints for predicting the future – rainy or arid years, years of bounty or scarcity, and times auspicious for cures. [12] leaves. 16×20 cm. Mispaginated. The width of the leaves are not uniform. Jacket title page, not bound. Aging stains. Fine-moderate condition. * Nieto’s Jewish Almanac for One Hundred Years. New York, 1902. Published by Burr Printing House. The endpaper bears an inscription from the author to the mayor of London. The second page features a picture of the author with protective tissue paper. The calendar includes Jewish dates from 1902-2002. 14×23 cm. Worn hard cover. Fine condition.
128 pages. 22 cm. Luach HaKollel: From 1827 through the end of the sixth millenium…all the details and rules for designating the years…for knowing the times……and secular calendar… Compiled and published by Zimel Avraham B’r Zvi Schatz, the author’s name appears in Russia in the title page margins. Old cardboard binding, fine condition.
* Yoman Luach Kis for 1940-41, marking the 20th year of Keren HaYesod, published by the Va’ad Ha’artzi L’Keren HaYesod B’Eretz Yisrael at the press of HaPoel HaTzair. The calendar was gifted to Keren HaYesod donors, and its first leaves bear an expansive review of the activities of Keren HaYesod since its establishments, including a list of its income. Missing the first leaf, apparently advertisements. Size: 7×11 cm. * Luach Kis Yerushalami for 1941, published by the Va’ad HaKlali Knesset Yisrael L’Tzidkat Rabbi Meir Ba’al HaNess. Solomon press. Includes statutes in Yiddish regarding the tomb of Rabbi Meir Ba’al HaNess. Size: 8×6 cm. * Silberstein’s Diary for 1941.Published by Messrs. R. & W. Silberstein Bros. Jerusalem-Tel Aviv – Haifa. The Silberstein family manufactured typewriters in Palestine in the 1940s. The diary includes advertisements for various typewriters manufactured by the company. Size: 5×9 cm. * Diary for 1949, published by the Keren Kayemeth L’Yisrael. Includes colored maps of Eretz Yisrael, historic information regarding the country and more. Size: 7×11 cm. * Diary calendar for 1950-51, published by the Keren Kayemeth L’Yisrael, Monsohn press. Includes colored maps of Eretz Yisrael, pictures of prominent personalities who headed the JNF, an expansive historic review of the JNF, and reproductions of the JNF”s “Sefer HaZah”v”, KK”l charity boxes and more. Size: 11×7 cm. All of these calendars are rare and not in the National Library. All five are in fine condition.
eight issues of the Kochvei Yitzchak journal for maskilim, edited by Mendel ben Yitzchak Stern, Vienna. Includes issue 1 which was published in 1845 and issues 7, 17, 20, 23, 30, 34, 35 – published between 1845-1868. [The last issue was published in 1837, after a break of four years]. The issues were published sporadically. [37 issues were published over the 28 years of its existence.] The journal discussed poetry, manuscripts [which were first published in its publications from time to time], Hebrew studies, translations of German-Jewish texts and more. Contributers included Elazar ben Yehuda of Worm, Shd”l [Shmuel Dovid Luzzato], Rochel Morpurgo and others. Editor Mendel Stern [1811-1873] was the director of the Hebrew department at Anton Schmidt’s press. Varying sizes and conditions.
Varied collection of entrance tickets to special events. The collection includes entrance tickets to plays and performances throughout the country, including: Beit Ha’am theater in Kefar Blum; the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra; “Peer” theater in Haifa; evening with Naomi Shemer; performance by the Givatron; Beit HaTefutzot; Cameri days of music on behalf of the cultural department of the broadcasting authority; Haifa Municipal Theater; entrance ticket to a screening of Amadeus in the “Lev” theater; acting and dancing performance arranged by Deborah Bertonoff; entrance ticket to the “Shtikah Shaveh Zahav” movie at the Bat Yam movie theater; entrance ticket to the Matti Caspi film “Echad l”Echad” in the Accord theater; graduation performances; official entrance ticket on behalf of the Upper Galilee Regional Council to the Yom Ha’atzmaut music festival of 1981; evening with Dan Almagor and Arik Lavie in Kibbutz Shamir, and more. Most of the tickets were used. Some of the tickets are doubles.
HaPardes. Monthly Torah journal with words of Torah from the Torah leaders of the time, published by Shmuel Aharon HaLevi Pardes of Zarik near Piotrkow. First year, booklets 1-6. The first six booklets were published in the framework of the Torah journal, bound together. Concludes with the Avnei Shmuel kuntress by Rabbi Shmuel Aharon HaLevi Pardes, Lodz, 1917. The endpapers and flyleaves have torah novella and comments signed by R’ Yaakov Gordon. Old cardboard binding. Fine condition.
The newspaper was printed between the end of World War II and the establishment of Israel, when the Brigade was serving in Western Europe. It includes daily reports from newspapers in Eretz Yisrael, important events such as news items related to the refugee camps, testimony, immigration attempts and soldiers’ memories of the war. Includes the first issue that was published on the 10th of Adar – March 5, 1944. Under the title [in Hebrew]: “L’Chayal: Daily news leaflet for Jewish soldiers in Europe, ” and the last issue that was published on June 21, 1946, with the official dissolution of the Jewish Brigade.
77 issues from Monday, the 17th of Adar, 18.2.1946, through Friday, the 22nd of Sivan, 21.6.1946 (other than the first issue from 1944). Includes a number of supplements published for Shabbat and holidays.
Bound together in a new, stiff cloth binding. Tears and loss in a number of leaves. Overall fine condition.
Collection of hundreds of letters, most handwritten, a minority typed, from a Jewish – Hungarian doctor named Peli, during the Second World War. Most of these documents are dated [in the letters] between 1943-5. Most are written in German, with a few in Hebrew [primarily the family letters]. Peli’s wife lived in Palestine during those years, and this collection includes letters that he received from Palestine written in Hebrew [primarily relating to her loneliness and the hardships of living in an unfamiliar country]. The collection also includes letters on other subjects; some personal, which reflect the hardships he underwent, and some professional, regarding medicine. The archive has not been thoroughly inspected. Hundreds of documents, fine condition.
Jubilee Book Haynt – a special festive book published on the twentieth anniversary of ‘Haynt’, one of the most popular and well-known newspapers pre-Holocaust Poland. The book was printed in 1928. On its first leaves are photographs of past and present ‘Haynt’ staff. Most of the book is composed of memories of well-known people such as Shaul Tchernichovsky, Sarah Reisen, Y. Greenbaum, etc. as well as many advertisements. Most of the newspaper’s writers were murdered in the Holocaust. The articles are written in Yiddish. A few of the advertisements are in Hebrew. 199 [14] pages. Tears on the spine, slightly folded cardboard binding, aging stains, moderate condition.
[1] leaf. 28×40 cm.
Special afternoon edition of the
Davar newspaper issued during the attack on the
Exodus illegal immigrant ship. The newspaper reports, “One dead, 5 in critical condition, 20 seriously injured… water is entering the ship which is in danger of sinking.” After the morning edition of
Davar ‘s report that the Exodus was nearing the shore, this edition provided a real-time update. This episode ended with all the travelers, about 4,550 Holocaust survivors, forcibly returned to German DP camps.
Tears at the top of the pages and margins, tape reinforcements. Moderate condition.
Booklet with a printed eulogy: Trauerrede in der klau synagoge zu prag am 2 adar 5672 an der bahre des herrn oberrabbiner Dr. Nathan Ehrenfeld זצ”ל. The eulogy was delivered by Dr. Chaim Broyde in the Prague kloiz, in memory of Dr. Ehrenfeld, in 1912. 16 pages with German text and Hebrew quotes from Chazal and verses. The eulogy was printed in a limited edition for acquaintances and family members. Rare, not in the National Library. Rabbi Chaim Broyde [1868-1942] was Hungarian born, the grandson of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, and a leading bibliographer and scholar with expertise in the poems of the Middle Ages. We’ve included information regarding this personality. Fine condition.
Complete, five-volume set of all “Miklat” journal issues ever published. New York, 1920-21. The journal was edited by Y. D. Berkowitz and published by Avraham Yosef Sztybel. It discusses history, Hebrew studies, poems, philosophy, national rejuvenation and more. Submissions from: Dovid Shimanowitz, Daniel Persky, Bialik, M. M. Dolitzki, Dovid Frischmann and more. 5 volumes. 15 issues. 21 cm. Fine condition.
* Report of the committee of inquiry “appointed by the High Chancellor of Palestine to study the riots in Jaffa in May 1921.” Rare, comprehensive study of the committee of inquiry established by Herbert Samuel after the riots of 1921. They started in Jaffa on May 1, 1921, and spread to other Jewish communities. 47 Jews were killed and 140 wounded during these riots. The committee of inquiry changed British policy and prompted the withdrawal of their commitment to establish a Jewish national homeland as promised in the Balfour Declaration, in order to placate the Arabs.[2] leaves, 44 pages; 36 cm. Stains on the leaves, the jacket title page is disconnected and torn on its back section. Fine to moderate condition.
Very rare.
* Complete List: The names and addresses of Jewish manufacturers in Eretz Yisrael, the Zionist Organization, arranged by N. Tishbi. 1924. Complete list of all businesses in Eretz Yisrael, sorted by location and type of business. [8], 20, [2] pages. Very rare, not in the National Library. Missing the jacket title page, tears. Moderate condition.
* Enlistment form for the civilian guard for self-protection against air raids. [1938]. [1] leaf, 33×20 cm.Empty form, light tears and marks in the folds. Fine condition.
Very rare, unknown item.
A first draft in the handwriting of the Judge Dr. Binyamin HaLevi of the verdict in the Kfar Kasem trial, 1958.
[4] pages. 16x22cm. Cramped handwriting with deletions of the Judge Dr. Binyamin HaLevi. At the beginning, the date 27.3.58 and the title ”
Psak Din ” [Verdict].
The Kfar Kasem massacre was one of the stormy chapters in the history of the State of Israel. On October 29, 1956, on the first day of Operation Kadesh, soldiers of the Border Patrol carried out a massacre in Kfar Kasem, in which they shot to death 73 of the village’s residents: men, women and children. Prime Minister Ben Gurion initially wanted to hide the episode and activated the military censor, but after public pressure, a trial began in January 1957, in which 11 commanders and soldiers who were involved in the massacre were tried in the Regional Military Court in Jerusalem. In the unprecedented verdict which was given by Dr. Binyamin Halevi, a preliminary legal definition was given to the term: “a completely illegal command” in which the soldier has to refuse to obey if given to him.
Judge HaLevi drafts general approaches to the questions which were discussed in the trial. At the top of the page he writes to himself that the verdict needs to be: “short which contains a lot, to the point, correct, fair, moral, brave and comprehensive”. Among the questions mentioned in the draft is: “Was the command that N2 (the accused Lieutenant Gavriel Dahan) completely illegal.” On the back of the paper is a drawn sketch of “filling in the slots which are under dispute.”
Very fine condition.
[1] leaf of quality paper, 20×31 cm. “Certificate for a monetary donation given generously and with goodwill….for ten zehuvim, for the Tongeleth Society in Amsterdam.” Certificate #10, signed by the Tongeleth society [community benefit] in Amsterdam, confirming that the donation was a loan given without interest. The society aimed to raise 400 gold coins from forty different lenders. Includes details regarding returning the loan. The certificate is in print, but its number [10] is written by hand, and it bears the original signatures of Yisrael Kester, Shmuel Mulder and Yaakov Hartana [with a lengthy, handwritten supplement regarding this loan], in addition to the society’s stamp. The Tongeleth movement was a literary society established in Amsterdam in 1815 by author and translator, Shmuel Yisrael Mulder [who signed this certiifcate] and Moshe Lehmans. Nice print on quality paper. Very fine condition.
13 issues of the Ha’atid newspapers – mouthpiece of the Histadrut HaChalutz Ha’olamit, Warsaw, 1930s. The issues include an expansive reivew of the activities of “HaChalutz” in Poland, speeches by the spokespeople of the movement at various conventions, pictures from Palestine, culture, song, pioneerism and more. Contributions from various writers, including: Yehuda Ibn Samuel, A. Yaari, S. Lavi, Aba Shatz, Y. Tabenkin and others. Moderate-fine condition.
Historic personal archive with
thousands of documents, certificates and letters from the Milikowsi-Netanyahu and Margolin families. Eretz Yisrael (Palestine and Israel), Europe and the United States at the beginning of the 19th century-1960s.
The archive includes items related to historic and valuable subjects including: *Documents and certificates from Rabbi Nosson Milikowski (1879-1935), grandfather of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, alumni of Yeshivat Volozhin, passionate Zionist who, as a prominent speaker, drew enthusiastic crowds throughout Europe and the United States.
*Certificate of Citizenship of “Nathan Netanyahu Milikowski” with the stamps of the British Mandate from 1926. In this document, his profession is listed as “rabbi and scribe, ” and it lists his children (the oldest son, Ben Tzion, was the father of Binyamin Netanyahu). Interestingly, instead of his picture, there is a picture of his wife.
* Rabbi Milikowski’s correspondence with the National Library and other libraries regarding his book
Folk Un Land , a rare book of his speech ”
HaNevi’im V’ha’am ” from 1915, and correspondence with noted philanthropist Louis Topkis.
*Zionist items from the 1930s such as: documents from participation in the 18th Zionist Congress, a German sports club in 1931, the League for Eretz Yisrael Ha’Ovedet, the Hebrew Gymnasium, and the birth certificates of his children in Palestine. Documents and certificates related to the family’s Zionist activities in the 1930s and ’40s (JNF, Zionist Organization, scouts youth group, training program for enlistees) in Prague, Yugoslavia and other locations. Rabbi Milikowski worked on behalf of the JNF and Keren HaYesod under the instruction of Menachem Ussishkin.
*Dozens of original photos (portrait and studio) of various sizes of Ben Tzion Netanyahu, Ezer Weizmann and pictures and certificates from diplomatic and family events related to the Milikowski and Netanyahu family in the United States and Israel.
*Personal archive of Boaz Margolin (married to the Milikowsi-Netanyahu family), from the 1920s-1960s. His Zionist family was one of the first members of the Jewish settlements in Gaza and Rechovot at the beginning of the 20th century. He was a communal activist, building contractor and exporter. Personal documents:
ketubah, high school diploma in history from the Nordia Gymnasium in Tel Aviv, 1930. Diplomas from the Technion in Prague and Haifa from the 1930s. Hundreds of personal letters in a number of languages (Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Czech and more), stencils and letters documenting correspondence between many family members (from his side and the Netanyahu side) from Palestine, Europe and the United States. Includes hundreds of personal letters that he received from his fiancée. Documents and newspaper clippings related to the Margolin’s settlement in Gaza. Interesting letters related to the Milikowski-Netanyahu business and the Margolin compnay, including family business secrets, official letters and documents from Palestine relating to business.
*Large historic binder of the Ramat Gan Bowling Club which Boaz led in the 1950s. Thousands of documents, certificates and pictures of various sizes and conditions. All generally well preserved and legible.
[1] leaf. 29×19 cm. Official certificate, “Acheinu Ata.” Sivan, 1932. Decorated certificate issued by the Chevra Kadisha D’Gemillut Chassadim of Pressburg [Bratislavia-Slovakia]. The certificate is printed in Yiddish, with the name filled in by hand and the original signatures of the chevra kadisha trustees and the official stamp of the Chevra Kadisha. Fine condition.
A Grus Fun Eretz Yisrael..Regards from Eretz Yisrael – the history of the Etz Hachaim Yeshiva and the development of the Jewish yishuv over the last century. By. A. Z. Brezhin. Jerusalem, 1933. Yiddish. Solomon press. Early booklet with an interesting historic description, replate with pictures, about the development of the Jewish yishuv in Jerusalem and the Etz Chaim Yeshiva: its rabbis [portraits of Rabbi Shmuel Salant, Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin and others], its disciples [various class pictures], and the various buildings in which it was housed. Includes newspaper articles from the time regarding the yeshiva. 42 pages. 34 cm. Missing two pages at the conclusion. Paper folds in the margins of the jacket ittle page. The body of the booklet is in fine condition.
[60] pages. 24 cm. Early, monumental community book, in an album edition, published by Massels the Printers. Manchester, 1923. The book was published to mark the fiftieth year of the “Sha’arei Tefila” Jewish Spanish-Portuguese congregation in Great Britian from 1873-1923. A limited number of copies of the book were printed for distribution amongst the community members. The book features pictures of noted members of the community, including famed philanthropist Moses Montefiore, Rabbi Binyamon Artom, the main synagogue, and letters from noted personalities written to the community on various occasions. Rare publication that is not in the National Library. Tear in the side of the binding and on the first twenty leaves, not affecting text; additional tear in the upper section of the first nine pages, not affecting text. Jacket title page, aging stains. Moderate-fine condition.
Schriften – Inteligia fun di otzros fun alten on neim identum, edited by Zvi Schwartz. Buenos Aires, Tammuz 1944 – Iyar 1949. Yiddish. 24 consecutive issues of the Schriften journal, in four volumes: * 7 consecutive booklets in volume: Tammuz 1944-Nissan 1945. * 6 consecutive booklets in volume: Tammuz 1945 – Iyar 1946. * 5 consecutive booklets in volume: Sivan 1946 – Iyar 1947. * 6 consecutive booklets in volume: Sivan 1948 – Iyar 1949. The issues deal with the Holocaust of European Jewry, Hebrew research, and Jewish culture, both old and new. Among the writers: Eliyahu Golomb, Shalom Asch, Hillel Zeitlin, Gershom Shalom, Yaakov Goldstein and others. Each volume is 20 cm. Varying conditions. Fine overall condition.
* Chassidic melodies for Passover [5], collected and arranged by Y. Stutschewsky, Tel Aviv, 1945. Music notes for chassidic songs. This booklet features music notes for the melodies of Karlin, Stolin and more. This rare booklet is not in the National Library. Aging stains, fine condition. *Shirim Chassidim L’Akodion, adapted by H. Kirsh, Nagan publishing, Tel Aviv 1963. Music notes. Includes notes for the “Nigun HaBesh”t, chassidic dance, Modzitz niggun and more. Very fine condition.
Four important, unknown journals from the Histadrut HaNoar HaTzioni. 1930s and 40s. * Avuka. Histadrut HaNoar HaTzioni. Tel Aviv, 1st of Iyar, 1939. Issue 1. Stencil. The editorial states: “Recently, we felt the lack of a newspaper in which the members can express their opinions and thoughts…and it was decided to publish the Avuka newspaper…in which we wish to show the youth at large that there is another way, of which they are not yet aware…” The newspaper describes the history of the movement throughout the country, thoughts regarding the future format of the journal, the movement’s attitude regarding sports, the task of the youth within the nation, and more. Not in the National Library. 20 pages. 22 cm. Illustrated jacket title. * Newsletter of Ken [group] Chadera L’Histadrut, “HaNoar HaTzioni B’Eretz Yisrael”, Menachem-Av, 1944. Issue 1. Stencil. The first issue published by the group. “The founding group has been organized. It’s mother is small, but its future is promised. We are now certain of victory.” The journal discusses the establishment of the settlement – “the dream became a reality”; a year since the Warsaw Uprising; corner for new immigrants and more. Not in the National Library. [1] 20 pages. 17×21 cm. * Masuot. Internal journal of the Gedud Chashmonaim published by the Histadrut HaNoar HaTzioni, Ken Tel Aviv, 1946. Stencil. The booklet includes thoughts about the religious movement; the chances of political independence; splits within the movement; memorial chart and more. Not in the National Library. 30 pages. 17×21 cm. Jacket title page. * HaNoar HaTzioni. Newsletter of the “Chevrot HaNoar Ha’Oleh”. Issue 5. Published by the “Noar HaTzioni – HaMazkirut Ha’Elyona.”Kislev, 1949. Newsletter distributed with the classification, “internal – not for sale.” The issue includes a review of events within the movement; the liberation of Nitzanim [after it was recaptureds by the IDF in 1949], the nucleus of a settlement in Mosdot and more. The National Library has issues from 1948 and 1952 onwards. This is not in the National Library. 15 pages. 24 cm. Varying sizes and conditions.
