Auction No. 094
Rare Books & Manuscripts, Rabbinical letters, Zionism, Erez Israel, Judiaca objects & art, numismatics & archeology
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Official publication from the national headquarters of the Brit HaChashmonaim, including bylaws, constitution, emblem, and anthem. Jerusalem, 1942.
11 pages. 20.5 cm. Printed by stencil in blue ink. Original cardboard cover with label.
Brit HaChashmonaim was a religious-Zionist youth movement active in Palestine from 1937 until the establishment of Israel. It was headed by Rabbi Moshe Zvi Segal and Baruch Duvdevani. The movement shared Jabotinsky's philosophies, and many of its members joined the underground movements of Etzel and Lechi. It operated like a military movement, as noted in this booklet, and was composed of groups who underwent basic training. Content: preface, bylaws and constitution, emblem, hymn, oath of allegiance, and dates of the movement's holidays.
Original cardboard cover with aging stains. The booklet is in very fine condition.
HaShluchot - Issue 5 of the Jewish Brigade. For the forces in Persia and Iraq. June, 1945.
Complete issue, 12 pages, printed by stencil, original staple, 34 cm.
This company was established in 1942 and was sent to Basra. Its personnel was later scattered among the ports and train stations in Iraq and Persia along the southern supply lines of the Allies to the USSR. This small company was stationed in a non-Jewish area. Its founders hoped that their placement would encourage communication with the Jews in the Soviet Union. However, they were disappointed. The soldiers were successful in opening lines of communication with the Jews of Iran and Iraq.
This is the last issue, published during the final stages of the war. It summarizes the activities of the Jewish soldiers in the war campaign and includes first-hand historic testimony about life in the Jewish communities in Iraq and original Hebrew songs such as בלדה על מחמוד.
Rare booklet, not listed by the National Library.
Aging stains, small tears at its edges. Fine condition.
Ad Eimatay Dibru Ivrit? by Eliezer ben Yehudah. New York, 1919. Only edition.
132 pages. 17.5 cm. Quality paper.
Unique work regarding the history of the Hebrew language by Eliezer ben Yehudah. The author wrote this work while he was in New York. It is part of his monumental Milon HaLashon HaIvrit HaYeshanah V'HaChadashah.
Owner signature; Rabbi Aharon Ben Tzion Shurin of New York. Goldman, 996.
Original, printed binding. Very fine condition. Rare work.
Eretz Moledet, Shir Tzioni. Odessa, [c. 1910]. Rare.
[4] pages, about 24 cm.
The words of the song with music notes for piano, by Aaron Luboshitzki. Title page and text in Russian and Hebrew. Title page print in blue with illustrations of Rachel's Tomb and the Cave of Machpelah, Stars of David, and the artist's signature in the frame: י.צ. טבטשניק.
Aharon Luboshitzki was apparently the first poet to write and publish songs and rhymes for children in Hebrew. The artist, Yehudah Zvi Tabachnik-Tavori, was an architect in Odessa. In 1919, he moved to Tel Aviv where he designed many homes in his unique style influenced by Oriental and Jewish motifs. He also painted and taught art for a short time at the Bezalel art school.
Very fine condition. Rare. Not listed by the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
Booklet for a Shabbat program for HaNoar HaTzioni HaOlami movement, published at the end of the Second World War, with the note: "Returning to productive work." The Noar HaTzioni Palestine. [1945].
28 pages. Stencil and paper jacket with title page text. Hebrew and English. With passages, songs, music notes, and Biblical verses. The program was apparently intended for use out of the country, and most of its content is in English. Not listed bibliographically.
Aging stains. Fine condition.
Lot 6
"Der Yiddenshtat—The Jewish State." Theodore Herzl, [1920]. First edition in the United States
Der Yiddenshtat. Theodore Herzl's famed work Der Judenstaat in Yiddish. First edition in the United States. Published by the Progressive Book Store, A. Shapiro, Boston, United States, [1920].
94 pages, 20 cm.
Simple, loose binding with a sticker with a section of the original title page binding. Stains, the leaves are in fine condition. Moderate condition.
Alphabetical ledger of the books in the library of Nachum Sokolov, written by him. A list of books in Hebrew and foreign languages. C. 1880.
38 written pages, plus many additional blank leaves. About 400 items are listed. The binding bears the Hebrew title, in his hand: "Book list." The endpaper bears the note: "Arranged c. 1880." Sokolov was twenty years old at the time.
In his youth, Sokolov invested much energy studying Torah and was known as an iluy, genius. However, he was drawn to general literature. His split interests are highlighted in his library, which contained many Torah-related works such as the Tanach, commentaries, Talmud, Rif, Shulchan Aruch, and works of the Acharonim like the Chayei Adam, Chavat Daat, and Avodat HaKodesh of the Chida. At the same time, however, his library also contained works by prominent maskilim.
Original, loose binding. Fine condition.
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Speeches by noted orator Zvi Hirsh Masliansky delivered before Zionist dignitaries in the United States during Nachum Sokolov's historic visit. United States 1913 and 1929. Autograph.
[3] doubled leaves. 14x20 cm. Text on both sides of the leaves.
Zvi Hirsh Masliansky (1856-1943) was a Jewish orator noted for his enthusiastic national speeches. In Russia, he was a traveling speaker and went on many speaking tours on behalf of the Chovivei Tzion. When he reached America in 1895, he became known as a top-rate speaker, and Ben-Tzion Eisenstadt wrote that he "created a new era of speech." In 1902, he helped found the Jewish paper Di Velt in New York and published a book of Yiddish sermons. Most of his speeches were in Yiddish, although he did give a few in Hebrew - like these. During Sokolov's historic visit to the United States, Masliansky was invited to receive him with a speech and to offer a parting farewell - as documented in the newspapers of the time. Masliansky prepared a draft of his speech and noted the date and location where he was scheduled to deliver it (Carnegie Hall, March 15, 1913; Tuxedo Hall, June 4, 1913; Temple Emanuel, February 2, 1929). The speeches were written in clear, poetic Hebrew and use admiring language to describe the Zionist leader.
Accompanied by newspaper clippings from the time with a description of the speeches and the impression they made on the audience.
Filing holes, stains. Some ink smudges. Fine condition.
Archive of Zionist letters sent to Dr. Egon Michael Zweig, Zionist activist in Vienna. Vienna and Jerusalem, 1904-1929.
[21] postcards and letters of various sizes. German. Some handwritten and some printed and then signed by Zionist activists in Europe (names have not been checked).
The collection includes letters (and a postcard) regarding Zionist issues written in German and authored by Zionist activists in Europe and sent to Dr. Egon Michael Zweig. The letters are stamped by the central bureau of the JNF in Cologne, the Central Zionist Bureau in Vienna, the JNF bureau in Austria, the Va'ad HaTzioni Ha'artzi, and personal stationery, some with JNF stamps.
Dr. Egon Michael Zweig (1877-1949) was born in Czechoslovakia. He was a cousin of author Stefan Zweig. He studied law in Vienna where he worked as a lawyer. At the age of 19, he began working for the Zionist cause and was a prominent activist for the Zionist Organization in Austria. In 1918 he founded the Palestina-Amt - the first Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency outside of Palestine. The letters in this archive relate to the very beginning of his Zionist activities in Vienna through his immigration to Jerusalem in the 1920s.
Overall fine-very fine condition.
Dozens of documents, certificates, receipts, rental contracts, postcards, and bank ledgers from the Kalik family of Safed. Hebrew and Arabic. 1918-1950s.
Large collection of documents and certificates related to Yaakov and Shmuel Kalik of Safed.
Including:
* Bank ledgers and documents from the Anglo-Palestine Company, King Solomon Bank, Bank Leumi. * Customs certificate for a ship in Haifa Port, 1925. * Invitations and New Year cards. * More than 20 Palestine and European postcards, some colored, 1920s-30s. * Election posters for mayor of Safed, 1950. * Business documents, rental contracts, construction permits in Palestine, Hebrew and Arabic, 1930s. * Court documents, Safed municipality vs. Yaakov Kalik. Palestine, 1938. * Bylaws of the "expansion of Safed settlement" neighborhood, 1930s? * Confirmation of Ottoman citizenship for a merchant, Va'ad HaKehillah HaIvrit in Tiberias, 1933. * Official document from the Constantinople consulate, 1918. Some of the documents are signed by Moshe Pedazur and Yaakov and Shmuel Kalik.
Overall moderate-fine condition.
Daat HaAretz Mitoch Mar'eh Einayim. Album of 200 pictures from the Dubek company. Tel Aviv, Hotza'at Eretz Yisrael Press. [1939].
[17] leaves. 34 cm. Cardboard. Printed, illustrated binding.Album with 200 pictures of Palestine from the archive of the Jewish National Fund. The collection is divided into 17 chapters according to topic: Tel Aviv port, Jewish deck workers, new settlements, children, youth holidays, JNF memorial books, Western Wall, public and cultural buildings, Jewish villages, bridges and water towers, Dubek, animals and birds, women rebuilding the land. Each picture is pasted within a border, with a caption on the leaf. With an introduction and detailed index.Only three of the 200 pictures are missing.This album is bibliographically unknown. Dubek issued a similar booklet entitled Mishmar U'Sport about a year later.
Original binding with blue and white lace. Light tears. Fine condition.
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[1] Flowers and views of the Holy Land, Souvenir of the British Occupation, 9th December 1917, Jerusalem. 13x9.5 cm. 13 colored postcards of sites in the Holy Land, captions in Hebrew, English, and French. The back of each postcard has a dried flower with tissue paper. Front and back olive wood binding, partially pasted. Front engraving of the Temple Mount. Hebrew title "Makom HaMikdash" and "Jerusalem." Binding in disrepair. A number of detached leaves; the leaves and flowers are in fine condition.
[1] Album Souvenir: Flowers from the Holy Land. Monsohn Press, c. 1910.11x17 cm. 13 colored postcards of sites in the Holy Land. Captions in four languages: Hebrew, English, French, and German. Dried flower on the back of each card. Front and back olive wood bindings. Colored front picture and the Hebrew title: "Rachel's Tomb." Loose binding. The leaves and flowers are in fine condition.