Winner's Unlimited - No. 107
Eretz Israel and Zionism, Postcards and Photographs, Numismatics, Posters, Maps, Judaica, Holy books, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes - Buyer's commission 22%
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Kochbuch für Israelitische Frauen by [Heinemann] Wolf Rebekka, Frankfurt am Main, 1901.
Cookbook for Jewish women, by Rebekka Wolf. Includes many weekday, Shabbat and holiday menus, and also for Passover. Various necessary tips, and a "medicine cabinet" for the maintenance of the Jewish home. Leaves of advertisements for Jewish books and foods are added at the beginning and the end.
XVII, 291, 6 pages.
Original binding with impressed book title and embedded drawing of Jewish foods. Slight tears on the seam between the spine and the binding. A few stains.
Fine condition.
Why war? Correspondence between Einstein and Freud. "Eretz" press, Tel Aviv, 1935, without name of publisher.
This is the first time that the letters were published in Hebrew. They were written in 1932 and were sent between Potsdam and Vienna and discuss the question of whether there is a way to save humanity from war, a country's ability to influence the decisions of its citizens, the power of the majority vs. the minority, and if there is a way to nullify a person's aggressive instincts.
16 pages. 22 cm. Stains. Fine condition.
ספר הפלוידערזאק או מאורת צפעונים, גאזעטא [עתון] כללית בעד כל העולם... נדפס אצל הגיזעטניק הכולל בבאלטונאווקא. [By Ephraim Dinard]. [New York, 1890].
Humorous, satirical work built as a compilation of Jewish press articles in the United States by Ephraim Dinard (published anonymously). Accompanied by six caricatures. Rare.
Ephraim Dinard - (1846-1930) - historian, polemicist, among the greatest bibliographers in the new era; Dinard was considered an author who was a provocateur writing unbiased and uninhibited against personalities whose opinions were generally considered authoritative. He immigrated to the United States from Russia in the 1890s.
100 pages, [6] caricature-plates. 15.5 cm. Detached leaves. Moderate-fine condition.
Two booklets with basic regulations of the 'Freemason' movement, both with handwritten comments and corrections by Shmuel HaShimshoni - one of the movement's founders in the Land of Israel, 1930s.
* Pattern Set of Bye-Laws
Booklet printed in Edinburgh [Scotland] at the end of the 1930s. Shimshoni's name is handwritten in English on the book's title page, with corrections, erasures and comments in the body of the book in English, in HaShimshoni's handwriting.
* Bye-Laws
Booklet with regulations of the foundations of the freemasons - in Egypt and Palestine. English. Handwritten notations and glosses. End of the 1930s. [1] 16 pages. 14 cm.
Shmuel HaShimshoni (1879-1939), born in Rumania to his father Dov Samsonoff, among the "enlightened" Jews of Rumania. In 1896, he immigrated to Israel and was among the founders of the first Jewish commune. He went to Egypt due to illness, and was active in the Cairo Jewish community and among the founders of the first French weekly Zionist periodical. While he was still in Edinburgh, he served as an honorary member of the high commission of the Freemasons, and when he came to Israel, he was active in establishing the basic principles of the movement in the Land of Israel. He was killed by a bullet in Haifa on his way to work. Refer to extensive coverage of his work in Encyclopedia of Pioneers and Builders of the Yishuv.
Both booklets are rare, and do not appear in the National Library. Fine condition.
The Tale of Little Rabbi Gadiel by Shai Agnon. Marcus and Partners Press, Berlin [1925].
Story by Shai Agnon. Printed in an especially small format, on thick paper, in a limited edition of 500 copies, as "a gift the the members of the Soncino Group, in honor of its first annual convention, on the first of Sivan, 1925, at the press of Marcus and Partners, in Berlin."
[16] pages, 11 cm. Remains of pasted paper on the binding. Fine condition.
V'Haya HaAkov L'Mishor by Shai Agnon. Pictures by Yosef Budka. Published by Judischer Verlag, Berlin, printed in Leipzig, 1919.
93, [1] page. 18 cm.
Original binding with gilt imprint, slight lacks in the imprint. Lacking spine. Except for this, fine condition.
Le Cantique de Salomon, enluminé par Ze'ev Raban, Shir HaShirim painted by Ze'ev Raban, "Bezalel," Jerusalem. Published by "Shir HaShirim," Jerusalem, 1930.
The book contains 26 color photo plates which are pasted onto its pages, located on the right side of the book when opened (printed from left to right). Partial texts from the scroll are in the paintings' margins, with a French translation on the left. Printed dedication from Ze'ev Raban to Prof. Boris Schatz, founder and director of the Bezalel School of Art. Dedication from 1946 on the flyleaf.
[31] leaves, 33.5 cm.
Bound in the original handsome leather binding with leaf and flower decorations. The cover sports a metal repousse of the Queen of Sheba. Fine condition.
HeChalutzim - by Meir Gur Aryeh - silhouette cuts accompanied by pioneer songs collected by M. Narkiss, published by Bnei Bezalel Jerusalem.
Printed dedication by the author to Prof. Boris Shatz on the page following the title page: 'To my teacher, first pioneer of Hebrew craft in the Land of Israel, Prof. Boris Shatz.'
Original binding with gilt embossing of pioneers in a tent and gilt inscription with impressed artist's signature. The silhouette cuts are all protected by tissue paper.
Fine-very fine condition.






* File with original architectural drawings of the GR"A synagogue in Shaarei Chessed neighborhood in Jerusalem. Eight sketches in various sizes of the interior and exterior of the GR"A synagogue's two floors. The drawings before us were planned in 1935 [dated in the accompanying documents] with the second-floor addition to the synagogue. There are sketches of various angles of the facade of the building, and the various entrances in the area of the synagogue. On some of the sketches, there are handwritten inscriptions and comments. There are additional documents pertaining to the permits for building the synagogue, an account-booklet for the neighborhood for the years 1933-4, [Salomon Press] with tables of income and expenses, and more in the file. Drawings in various sizes: 46x34 cm. and 40x33 cm. and 46x25cm.
* Printed leaflet 'Ballot for elections of the gabbaim for the the Beit Midrash HaGadol HaGR"A in the Shaarei Chessed neighborhood, Kislev 1944. The leaflet lists names for the GR"A synagogue members to choose from to serve as gabbaim and council members for the synagogue. The synagogue members were to choose seven names from the list to serve in their roles for two years. The names include some of the glorious figures of old Shaarei Chessed, including Rabbi David Baharan, Rabbi Aryeh Leib Ruchamkin, Rabbi Charlap, Rabbi Avraham David Rosenthal, Rabbi Uri Shraga Auerbach, Rabbi Yonah Mertzbach, Rabbi Yaakov Salant and additional rabbis. 34x22 cm. Tear in the top and bottom with slight damage to text.
The GR"A synagogue in the Shaarei Chessed neighborhood of Jerusalem was established in the second decade of the 20th century by the Jerusalem kabbalist Rabbi Ephraim Shmuel Paperman. He solicited donations from the Prushim (who followed the customs of the Vilna Gaon) residents of the neighborhood for the purpose of the synagogue's construction. At the beginning of its construction, it was one floor. In the 30s, a second floor was added [according to the plans before us].
Early diagram of the construction of the Zichron Meir neighborhood, named after Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin in Bnei Brak, 1930s.
Official diagram of the 'Paz Brothers General Technical Office,' captioned "Zichron Meir in Memory of Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin." Land plots are indicated on the diagram [some marked "sold"], as well as the various entrances to the neighborhood, and the parallel streets. Map of the neighborhood's location relative to the nearby cities of Tel Aviv and Petch Tikvah on the upper right. Printed diagram with handwritten additions. The name 'Halperin' is handwritten on the bottom part of the map. Rabbi Yaakov Halperin was the neighborhood's founder.
Zichron Meir was the second neighborhood established in Bnei Brak after Givat Rokeach, which was the first. In 1933, the first stage of the neighborhood was established, including three buildings. In Cheshvan 1933, Rabbi Meir Shapiro, rosh yeshiva of Chachmei Lublin passed away. Following his passing, Rabbi Yaakov Halperin, founder of the neighborhood, decided to name the neighborhood after him. For many years, Zichron Meir was the only neighborhood in Bnei Brak whose entrance was closed to traffic on Shabbat. In the 1940s, the neighborhood served as a hiding place for many of the heads of the Irgun and Lehi. During those years, Yaakov Halperin, the neighborhood's founder, donated a large area in the center of the neighborhood to Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, on which the Ponovezh yeshiva was built. In 1947, Halperin invited Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner, a student of Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin, to establish Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin, and after consultation with the Chazon Ish, the Chazon Ish recommended appointing him rabbi of the Zichron Meir neighborhood. The Chazon Ish's home was on the outskirts of the neighborhood.
Size: 74x50 cm. Slight tears in the margins [pasted in the back]. Fine condition.
Two original official architectural drawings of the plans for the Twin Towers - The World Trade Center in New York, 1967.
* Plan no. 171 of the 109th floor plan from 31/7/1967. Black ink. 63x46 cm. Printed drawing.
* Plan no. 135 of the 77th floor plan from 31/7/1967. Blue ink. 63x46 cm. Printed drawing.
There is a legend on the upper right, and the names of the companies that participated in the project on the lower left: Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, Emery Roth & Sons, Jaros Baum & Bolles, Helle & Jackson. Both drawings have certificates of authenticity attached.
There are total of 273 known drawings of the Twin Towers which served the architects during the various stages of construction at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s. Most of the drawings were archived by the office as the buildings were completed. It is known that there were additional copies of these drawings which were stored in the buildings' basements, but they were completely destroyed during the September 11th attacks. The offices of Yamasaki, who planned the buildings, testify that the final plans in their possession were discarded in 2003. The only drawings left were archived in Michigan after the Yamasaki company closed its offices in 2010, and in fact, these are the only original plans known remaining. In recent years, it was publicized that one of the drawings was found in Venezuela, but exactly where is not clear.
The source of the drawings before us is a man who received the plans directly from the Yamasaki offices - who had considered holding on to them an unnecessary burden and threw a huge archive of historical documents dealing with the original plans of the buildings into the garbage. After a while, the company became aware of the magnitude of their mistake in that they did not attach sufficient importance to the documents, and a legal battle was fought with the present owner over the course of years. The court has finally authorized the present holder as sole and undisputed owner of the collection. This is the only collection of its kind left in the world, and two of its drawings are offered for sale here, with a certificate of authenticity for each drawing.
The Twin Towers were planned by the American architect Minoru Yamasaki who wanted to express a Gothic tribute in their design. The shape of the buildings was designated to recall two bell towers of a cathedral, as well as the bold vertical lines and the top of the structure being reminiscent of a cathedral's arches. The two skyscrapers, comprising 110 stories, rose up 417 meters (North Tower) and 415 meters (South Tower). "Tower no. 1," with construction ending in 1972, was, in its time, the tallest tower in the world. Each one of the pair of buildings was built on an area of 4000 square meters and each building had a total of 350,000 square meters built, out of over a million square meters in the entire World Trade Center. The buildings were among the most prominent symbols of New York City and also represented the economic strength of the United States as a whole. Many multi-national companies were housed in the towers.
In the well-known suicide attacks on September 11th 2001, the two buildings collapsed after a pair of airplanes piloted by Islamic terrorists from Al- Qaida, headed by Osama bin Laden, crashed into the buildings. Although the skeletons of the buildings were initially planned to withstand any kind of attack, including aircraft, the planners did not consider aircraft loaded with thousands of tons of fuel, which eventually caused the conflagration that melted the steel skeleton of the building - causing the collapse of both buildings within two hours. The World Trade Center tragedy, which took 2977 lives, is considered the largest attack which has happened on American soil since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941, and is also considered the largest and most devastating terrorist attack in history.
In 2014, the new World Trade Center, rising up 541.3 meters, was inaugurated in Manhattan. It is the tallest building in New York in place of the Empire State Building, and the tallest in the United States in place of the Sears Tower.
With the exception of a slight tear in drawing number 171 on the upper right, without damage to text, the condition of both drawings is very fine.