30×20 cm.
Fine-very fine condition, minor creases.
30×20 cm.
Fine condition, blemish in the lower right corner.
30×20 cm.
Very fine condition, placed in a stiff passe-partout.
Tomb of the Prophet Muhammad with an English and French caption.
[2] photographs, 27X22 cm. Attached to cardboard on both sides.
Very fine condition. Placed in stiff passe-partout.
Collection of [40] Shanah Tovah postcards. The postcards contain color pictures with short poems in Yiddish on most of them, and wishes for a good year.
[40] postcards, some written.
Overall very fine condition.
31 postcards, most are photographs, some aerial, depicting the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Most show Jews praying. Various publishers.
Overall very fine condition.
* Leaf from The Illustrated London News , illustration of a synagogue, 1851.
* The Austrian royal marriage – interior of the great synagogue Prague.
* From The Graphic newspaper. A ship with Jewish immigrants departing from the Liverpool Port.
Overall fine condition, tears to the seams between the leaves.
A plate attached to a heavy wooden board.
16X21 cm.
Moderate condition, the margins of the block have been damaged.
17 postcards with photographs of synagogues and more. On the back of the photographs, Polish descriptions.
Very fine condition, the photographs are cropped so that some of the descriptions on their back are cropped as well.
The photographs depict the children with the rabbi-the Mori.
One photograph: 15×10 cm.
Second photograph: 9×14 cm.
The photographs are in a large passe-partout.
Approximately [80] photographs – Jewish families in the Land of Israel and in the Diaspora, including captions and names.
Overall moderate-fine condition.
Wood-bound album containing dried flowers and pictures of the sites. Kahana Press, Jerusalem.
Stamp of “The Widow Yenta daughter of Rabbi Y. M. Kasver z”l, ” Jerusalem. Handwritten dedication.
8×12 cm.
Moderate condition, detached binding.
Picture of the two brothers – the Admo”rs of Vizhnitz, Rabbi Eliezer Hager, author of Damesek Eliezer , and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager of Vishova, sons of the author of Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz. [Eastern Europe, 1930s?]
Original photograph of the two brothers standing at an open window – possibly of a train.
The Admo”r Rabbi Eliezer Hager was the author of Damesek Eliezer of Vizhnitz [1891-1946], son of the Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz, and son-in-law Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Heschel of Kopycznitz. He was appointed Av Beit Din of Vizhnitz in 1920, and after his father’s passing in 1936, he began to serve as an Admo”r. He fled Vizhnitz in 1940 when it was captured by the Russians, and settled in Temshvar. He sent food packages to Jews who were exiled to the swamps of Transylvania and were starving there. To this purpose, he sold all of his possessions, including his watch. He was very active in communal matters and rescuing Jews from the Holocaust. He ascended to the Land of Israel in 1944 and lived in Tel Aviv where he reestablished the Vizhnitz yeshivah.
The Admo”r Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager [1885-1941] was the eldest son of the Admo”r the ‘Ahavat Yisrael’ of Vizhnitz. He served as a lecturer at his father’s yeshivah in Vizhnitz. In 1908, he was appointed rabbi of Vizhnitz. With the outbreak of WWI, he joined his father and the rest of the family who moved to Grosswardein (Ordea) in Transylvania. In 1921, he was appointed rabbi of the town of Vishova in the Maramureş region of Transylvania and led the yeshivah there. This yeshivah was the largest in all of Romania at the time, and numbered about 400 students at its apex. After his father’s passing in 1936, he began to conduct himself as an Admo”r, and was known as the Admo”r of Vishova. He became ill in 1941, eventually passing away from this illness a short while later. His remains were transferred for reinterment in the Land of Israel, and he is buried in the section for the Admo”rs of Vizhnitz in Bnei Brak.
It’s possible this photograph is part of a slightly larger photograph, but in any case the photograph is clearly focusing on the two tzaddikim.
Approximately 6×10 cm. Uneven page cropping.
Moderate condition. Creases.
27×22 cm. 2 photographs attached to cardboard on both its sides.
One of the photographs is signed Hippolyte Arnoux.
Overall fine-very fine condition. Slightly convex.
[12] photographs + title page, in its original binding.
Fine-very fine condition. Aging stains, minimally worn edges.
Early color photograph of the Temple Mount from the west, depicting the Temple Mount [the Mosque of Omar], the walls of the Old City and the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. C. 1940s.
High-quality photograph. Unidentified photographer. Size: 30×40 cm.
Fine condition.
4 photographs affixed side by side on cardboard, with photographer Tzadok Bassan’s stamp. Rabbi Kook is seen in the photographs along with other notable Jerusalemites of the period.
29×20 cm – photograph size; 31×41 cm cardboard size.
Fine condition, minimal blemishes in the margins, slightly torn cardboard.
30×24 cm.
Very fine condition.
Including: Baba Sali, Rabbi Kadouri, Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, Rabbi Yehudah Tzadkah and others.
Rare pictures, private collection.
Various sizes, overall fine condition.
Including: Gur, Toldot Aharon ztz”l (and, may he be distinguished for a good long life, the Admo”r of Toldot Avraham Yitzchak in his youth), Minchat Yitzchak, Rabbi Dushinsky, Rabbi Fisher, Rabbi Wosner, Rabbi M. A. Freund, R’ Amram Blau, Rabbi Shach, Chazon Ish, Petersburg, Kaliv in his youth, Pupa, Spinka, Slonim (Birkat Avraham and Netivot Shalom), R’ Akiva Sofer and others.
Private collection, rare pictures.
Various sizes, overall fine condition.
Most of the pictures [38 pictures] were taken during one tisch. The Admo”r is, unusually, wearing a fur kapote, as is customary in some Chassidic courts, although it is not customary in Lelov.
The first at the tisch is the elder Karliner Chassid Rabbi Zalman Brizel, and around the Admo”r are the legendary assistants: Simchah Krokovsky, Noach Goldberg, Menasheh Lipschitz, Avraham Schwartz and others.
Overall fine condition. Several pictures are doubles.
Including several rare pictures in black-and-white of the Admo”r the Rebbe Rabbi Yoelish of Satmar, some from his visit to the Land of Israel. Including a rare picture with a Yerushalmi kaftan.
Private collection, some of the pictures are unknown.
Various sizes, overall fine condition.
31 photographs, some of synagogues (with an emphasis on holy arks) and some of rabbis and Jews.
Average size: Approximately 11×17 cm.
Very fine condition.
Postcards and photographs of Rabbi Dov Berish Meisels, Av Beit Din of Warsaw, the Besh”t, the ‘Beit Yisrael’ of Gur, Rabbi Yehudah Pattiyah, Rabbi Chaim Churi Av Beit Din of Djerba.
Overall fine-very fine condition.
