Collection of printed L’Shanah Tovah posters and checks. Germany and the United States, 1910-1920s. Yiddish, Hebrew, and English.
* Two colored L’Shanah Tovah ship cards. United States. 22.5×29.5 cm. Colored print. Yiddish and Hebrew. Wishing 120 years of blessed journeys on a steam boat, Star of David flags, and the Statue of Liberty. One of the posters features the date תרע with room to fill in the year (i.e., 191__). One leaf is in very fine condition and the second is torn and pasted to cardboard, in moderate-fine condition.
* Two L’Shanah Tovah checks. Germany. 21.5×8 cm. Colored print. English. Made out for the sum of 365 days of health, wealth, and joy. With illustrations of a steam boat, ten commandments, menorah, and Star of David flag. Very fine condition.
Souvenir with pictures of the cemetery and synagogues in Prague. French and German. Prague, 1862.
[1] leaf. 49×46 cm. Colored lithograph with ten pictures of the Altneuschul, Klausen Synagogue, and the ancient cemetery in Prague. Includes pictures of people walking in the cemetery. Text at bottom marks the Hebrew years of the oldest tombstones. German captions. Title also in French.
Printed by U. Druck in 1862 in Prague, from the book Alterhumer der Prager Josefstadt: israelitischer Friedhof Alt-Neu-Schule und andere Synagogen that was published in 1855 by David Podiebrad. The French title: Souvenir de cimetiere ancien d’israel de Prague. In German: Andenken an den alten isr. Friedhom seine umegebung in Prag.
Refer to the Rosenthal Collection for more information regarding this item. http://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:65738. Original fold marks. Minimal stains. Fine condition.
Poster Iggeret Shluchah el HaKodesh by Rabbi David Friedman of Karlin, 1902. Pertains to the polemic regarding charity boxes.
[1] printed leaf. 20×25 cm. Rabbi David Friedman of Karlin writes in his name, and on behalf of other rabbis, that it is prohibited to place charity boxes of “Kupat Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess” that compete with other boxes on behalf of the communities in Eretz Yisrael. The poster was written to the administrators of Kupat Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess in Eretz Yisrael.A large polemic waged at the time regarding the tzedakah boxes of the Mir Yeshiva. The sharp polemic involved people in a number of countries and many Torah giants.
Rabbi David Friedman, “Rabbi David Karliner,” authored Shu”t She’ilat David and was a prominent posek and leader of his time.
Light fold marks. Very fine condition.
Passover kashrut certificate and advertisement for Gottlub Tea, signed by the dayanim of the Krakow beit din. Podgórze-Krakow, [1905]. Unknown publications.
[3] pages. 23.5×30 cm. The letter notes that every package of tea with the name Gottlub is Kosher L’Mehadrin for Passover. Signed by the dayanim Rabbi Yosef Lederberger, rav”d, and Rabbi Avraham Moshe Rapaport, along with the beit din seal. At the time, there were many hesitations regarding tea on Passover, because sometimes cooked tea leave were reused.In addition, two letters in Hebrew and German were printed for the community rabbis. The letters feature a copy of the emblem of the kosher tea with a request that the rabbis encourage their community members to purchase the kosher tea. Mentions that a portion of the proceeds of the sale of the tea would be distributed to charity.
[1] page, 23.5×33 cm. Promotional leaf for Gottlub tea, in Yiddish and German, with a picture of a samovar. Podgórze-Krakow, [1905].
Small tears, not affecting text. Aging stains. Fine condition.
Teshuvah Klalit!…regarding female participation in elections, by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook. [Jerusalem, Solomon Press, 1920.]
7 pages. 22 cm.
Lengthy response by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook regarding women’s participation in elections for the Asifat HaNivcharim. Rabbi Kook wrote on the title page that he had already expressed his opinion regarding his opposition to the matter, but he thought it appropriate to expand and explain his position. The response was written in Nissan, 1920, and relates to the stormy polemic of the time. Rabbi Kook believed that it was inappropriate for women to vote in the first elections for the Asifat HaNivcharim. His opinion caused a rift among the religious Zionists. In this work, Rabbi Kook expands on his opinion and suggests submitting the question to a meeting of Eretz Yisrael rabbis. This meeting took place on the 26th of Nissan, 1920.Rare booklet. Listed by the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book according to the copy in Mossad HaRav Kook.
New cardboard binding. Marginal reinforcements and restoration. Moderate-fine condition.
4 posters and certificate of a land sale, on behalf of the orphans, poor people, and kollels of Jerusalem, 1920s.
[1] Di Yesomah far Kol Nidrei, “Aneinu Avi yesomim, aneinu.” Beit HaYetomim HaKlali. 48×44.5 cm.
[1] Certificate from Kollel Shomrei HaChomot. Sale of “one amah of land” in the courtyard of Kollel Nachlat Zvi. With an empty space for the name of the donor. Colored, numbered certificate with a historic picture of the courtyard. Quality paper, colored print with border. 43×28 cm.
[1] Kiryat Achim L’Ezra Nechutza, machatzit ha-shekel, Kollelot Bukovina, signed (in print) by Rabbi Kook, Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank, Rabbi Moshe Kliers (av”d Tiberias) and Rabbi Avraham Leib Zilberman (Safed). Printed text on both sides of the leaf, 23.5×31 cm.
[1] Kol Korei L’Ezra, for elderly Torah scholars, widows, and orphans, signed (in print) by Rabbi Sonnenfeld, Rabbi Mordechai Leib Rubin, Rabbi Moshe Kliers (av”d Tiberias) and Rabbi Avraham Leib Zilberman (Safed). 31.5×43.5 cm.
Overall fine condition.
[1] leaf. 27×20.5 cm. Hebrew and Yiddish.
Sharp poster opposing cooperation with the Mizrachi movement: “Whoever prays in their synagogues will not be able to join a minyan.” Rare poster.
Fold marks and holes, without loss of text. Light restoration of margins. Fine condition.
*Advertisement for a machine that makes holes in Passover matzot; details the purchase arrangements and kashrut, by Aharon Igra. [End of 19th? century.]
[1] leaf. 23×34 cm. Aharon Igra invented a machine for making holes in matzot. In this advertisement, he appeals to rabbis to suggest that their communities purchase the machine. Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Schwadron, the Maharsham of Berezhany, certified the kashrut of the machine. Includes purchase details and the option of returning the machine after the month of Nissan. The inventor notes that the machine could be purchased from R’ Alexander Margaliot who lived in Rahatyn, Galicia.
* Kashrut certificate for a machine that makes holes in matzot, by Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Schwadron – the Maharsham of Berezhany. [End of 19th? century.]
[1] leaf. 21×34 cm. The Maharsham writes that he tested the machine many times and recommends it.
Rabbi Shalom Mordechai, the Maharsham of Berezhany (1835-1911) was involved in the controversy regarding machine matzot. He was a prominent Galician rabbi and leading posek of his time. He permitted machine matzot, despite the fact that he was aligned with the chassidic factions. In this kashrut certificate he recommends that every rabbi should try to encourage their matzah bakers to purchase this machine.
Two unknown publications.
Small tears in the blank margins. Fold marks. Fine condition.
Die Synagoge, Eine judisch’religiose Zeitschrift, by Dr. Lazarus Adler. Religious Jewish periodical for teaching Jews. Wurzburg-Munich. 1837-1839. Periodical in German with Hebrew sentences.
Section one: Issues 1-6. Wurzburg, 1837-1838. 386 pages. With indexes.
Section two: Issues 1-6. Munich, 1839. 379 pages, 3 pages of indexes and errata.
Especially rare, only a few copies are known in public libraries worldwide. These were apparently the only issues printed.
Within two original bindings. Minimal aging stains. Very fine condition.
Ner HaMa’aravi. Monthly journal regarding Jewish life, Judaism, and Jewish literature published by the Society for the Advancement of Jewish Literature in America. New York. [1895-1898]. Bookplate of J.D. Eisenstein.
Prominent Jewish-American journal with contributions by leading Jewish authors in America who emigrated from Eastern Europe. Includes articles and news about Jewish life in America and Eastern European countries.
This is apparently all the booklets ever printed: year one: booklets 1-12, year two: booklets 1-4. Separate pagination, includes Zemirat Am Ha’aretz by Ephraim Deinard, Milchemet HaNiglah V’Hanistar of Shlomo Rubin, possibly missing leaves.
Bookplate of Yehudah David Eisenstein of New York, a leader of the Society for the Advancement of Jewish Literature from a young age and the publisher of the journal. [The editor’s copy should be complete, but this has not been verified.]
Original, loose binding. The first title page is detached. Fine-very fine condition. Goldman 908.
HaMaggid – news and current events, international.
Two volumes of the HaMaggid journal, 1879 and 1888. 99 issues.
[1] HaMaggid: News and current events, edited by Eliezer Lipman Zilberman, 23rd year, issues 1-50, Lyck, Prussia, 1879. In an old binding. 400 pages, 34 cm.
[1] HaMaggid: News and current events, edited by David Grossman, 32nd year, issues 1-47, 49, 50. Lyck, Prussia, 1888. In an old binding. 392 pages, 34 cm.
The first Hebrew weekly newspaper. Published from 1856 to 1903 in Lyck, Prussia, and then in Berlin and other locations. David Grossman, the paper’s second editor, was a Chibat Tzion supporter, and he turned the paper into one of the most significant mouthpieces of the Haskala movement in Eastern Europe and of the Jewish settlement in Palestine.
The issues are in fine-very fine condition.
Two issues of Chareidi newspapers which were published on the death of the leader of the generation Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz, 1953.
* HaNe’eman Newspaper: the newspaper of the union of Yeshiva students, Cheshvan 1953 issue, with the title “The candle of Israel is extinguished” and a picture of the Chazon Ish. Contains eulogies from the Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovezh Rabbi Kahanaman, the Mashgiach Rabbi Dessler and various articles. 16 pages, 23cm.
Tiny tears. Fine condition.
* Chomoteinu Newspaper: by the members of the Neturei Karta of Jerusalem, the Cheshvan 1953 issue, with the title “Honor has been exiled from Israel”. Editorial by Yosef Scheinberg, the secretary of the Eida Chareidis. 8 pages, 25.5cm.
Tears, damage to text on the first page, moderate condition.
Colored printed poster, illustrated by Arthur Szyk. Includes the story of the establishment of the State of Israel. US, 1948. Possibly the first edition. 53×42 cm. Very fine condition.
Colored, printed Mizrach. Jerusalem? 51×38 cm. Very fine condition.
Colored, printed label. With two detailed certifications with the signature of Rabbi Aharon Schuster, Rabbi of Holland, and the stamp of the Chief Rabbinate of Holland and the stamp of the Beit Din of Tangier. Fine condition.
Protest against people from ‘gimmel’ and the Hamodia newspaper who insulted Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim, later Rishon L’Tzion and Chief Rabbi of Israel. 1951. Poster – a letter sent to him by Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis, Rabbi Pinchas Epstein, Rabbi Dovid Jungreis and Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak Reisman. Apparently in the wake of Rabbi Nissim’s candidacy for Knesset, outside of Agudat Yisrael. Very fine condition
Itoneinu.Wall newspaper for Jewish children. Illustrated newspaper for children issued by the JNF. Jerusalem. 2 issues. Jerusalem, 1948, 1957. Issue2, Shevat, [1948]. 96×31 cm. Issue 8, [1957]. 94×34 cm. Illustrated newspaper in color with information regarding Israeli current events and stories. Issue 2 was printed before the establishment of the State and relates to T”U B’Shevat. Issue 8 was printed for the 9th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, with a large illustration of children dancing around a menorah flanked by Israeli flags. Only a few wall issues were published. Issue 2 is particularly rare and not in the National Library. Issue 8 was apparently the last one printed. Issue 8 bears a few light marginal tears without loss. Fold marks. Very fine condition
Notices [16]. Jewish theater, in Yiddish, some with pictures.
Raffle ticket from the “Mohar U’Matan” fund for wedding expenses for orphaned Jewish girls in the Izmir community. Izmir, 1874.[1] leaf. 21×22.5 cm.There were 4000 raffle tickets. This is ticket 2968. Information about the raffle at center, in Ladino. Surrounded by text in other languages: Turkish, Greek, Armenian and French. Interesting information regarding fundraising in Ladino-speaking countries. Not listed by Avraham Yaari in his list of Ladino works.Very fine condition.
Colored yartzheit poster. Jerusalem, Monson press. By the Va’ad HaKlali Knesset Yisrael. Illustrations of the holy sites and institutions in Jerusalem. 57×44 cm. Very light blemish. Very fine condition.
Three periodicals in Spanish. Buenos Aires, 1932-1945. Illustrated. Very fine condition.
“LaChayal”. Daily news leaflet for Jewish soldiers in Europe. Issue 1. Reproduction. Brussels, 1946.[4] pages. 25×33 cm.In 1944, a news leaflet was printed for Jewish soldiers in Europe. The first issue was published in March 1944, and was printed by stencil. After the war, in 1946, the editorial staff of the newspaper in Brussels printed a reproduction of the first historic issue. They added a note that the reproduction was a gift from the editorial staff and administration.Light tears, without loss. Reinforcing tape to the margins. Aging stains. Fine condition.
Kol Zefat. Newspaper of the Hagana soldiers in Safed. Issued by the commander of Safed on behalf of the Hagana. Safed, Galil Press, 1948. [2] issues. Issues 4 and 6 from the 16th and 19th of Nissan [April 25 and 28], 1948. [1] leaf. 33×23 cm. The mission of the newspaper was to describe conditions in the besieged city; to support the soldiers; broadcast official announcements from the Haganah headquarters; and to publicize brief political updates related to the battle. Edited by Yeshaya Ashni. Refer to: Ashni, Yeshayhu, “Bisimtaot Zefat”, p. 148-151, Meir Meiber, “BiTzel HaMezuda, p. 135-144. 11 issues were published until Safed was captured during the War of Independence. Tear to issue 6, without loss and small marginal tears. Fine-very fine condition.
