Winner's Unlimited - No. 105
Eretz Israel and Zionism, Postcards and Photographs, Numismatics, Posters, Maps, Judaica, Holy books, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes
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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.
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: 11x16 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.