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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'Man's wisdom lights up his face, and his righteousness is remembered forever,' picture of the honorable rabbi, the true genius, minister of Torah, light and rabbi of the diaspora, elder sage of the Etz Chaim yeshiva of Volozhin some fifty years, teaching thousands of students from every land, his holy honor, Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin, ztzuk"l.
Printed picture according to a photograph of the gaon rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin - Rosh Yeshiva of Volozhin and one of the leaders of the generation, W. Walkiewicz press 1893. Russian and Hebrew inscriptions in the margins of the picture and the Netziv's signature on the photo. Attached to an original stiff board with the photographer's stamp on the reverse.
Picture: 17x11 cm. Cardboard mount: 20x15 cm. Stains. Fine condition.
'Picture of the true genius pious and humble, our teacher and rabbi, Rabbi Eliyahu Gutmacher, Av Beit Din of the Greiditz community ...'
Rabbi Eliyahu Gutmacher [1796-1874]: gaon, kabbalist, in his youth he learned with Rabbi Akiva Eiger in Posen and was known as a tremendous prodigy at a young age. Precursor of Zionism, one of the first to call for agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel in the 19th century. He began to serve as rabbi of Greiditz in 1839, and quickly became the exceptional figure of a chassidic Admor in Germany. He was friendly with Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer.
6x11 cm. Stains. Moderate condition.
Printed picture: Depiction of the Holy Famous Gaon - the GR"A of Vilna wearing a tallit. Published by Yehoshua Shapira, Lodz [Poland], beginning of the 20th century.
Unknown picture of the image of the GR"A, printer's mark and details on the lower right.
Size: 9x14 cm. Stains. Slight tears in the margins without blemish to the picture. Moderate-fine condition.
Three early pictures of Eastern European Jews in traditional dress, beginning of the 20th century.
Two are sized 14x9 cm. [one is of a husband and wife, the second a rabbinical figure]. A smaller photograph sized 4x5 cm [rabbinical figure].
Fine condition. Some cracks in the small photograph.
* Group photo of Yeshiva students in Kanizsha [Hungary]. c. 1930s. Photograph divided on the reverse for use as a postcard. Dedication on the back of the photo from the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Buxbaum, who was killed in the Holocaust. And from his younger brother: 'As a memento from the students of my older brother, the great Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak shlit"a ...' 9x14. Fine condition
* Photograph of a yeshiva student holding a book and a piece of fabric with a star of David on a background of three different colors. c. 1930s.
9x14 cm. Fine condition.
Four photographs depicting groups of Talmud Torah students and their teachers in the "Machzikei HaDat" home during breakfast, alongside open textbooks. All have the photographer's stamp: "Phot. Rembrandt," and the inscription, "Warm bread breakfast for the Talmud Torah students at the Machzikei HaDat home [1917]. Photographs of this sort are very rare.
Inscription in Yiddish on the back of the photographs: "געדענקט אין די ארימע קינדער וואס לערנען אין ארמוט און נויט! שטיצט ויי יעדער בעזונדער פון אייער ברייטע האנד מיט ברויט!" [Remember the needy children learning in poverty! Support them everywhere, assist with their daily bread!"]. The stamp of the 'Machzikei HaDat' society appears under this in Polish, as well as the street address of the Talmud Torah: Nadrzeczna 50 [Poland]. The children were photographed against the background of a blackboard inscribed: 'If there is no flour, there is no Torah.' In another photograph: 'He gives bread to the hungry.'
The photographs are divided on the reverse for use as a postcard. Identical size: 14x9 cm. Three are in fine-very fine condition, one photograph has a number of cracks.
Group photograph of the children of the Odessa Choir aside Cantor Yehoshua Chomat with well-known conductor Moshe Bik in his youth. Russia, Beginning of the 20th century.
Moshe Bik [1899-1979] was born in Charson, in the south of Russia. He moved to Odessa in his youth, where he studied conducting. He already participated in the choir when he was only six years old, and began conducting it at 12. He later met the great composers Yoel Angel and David Schorr, and the folk singer Aryeh Friedman-Lvov, who shaped his musical career. He immigrated to Israel in 1921 and settled in Haifa. He began conducting choirs in the Land of Israel while still doing his pioneer work, establishing choirs in the road-building camps, with the goal of providing a kabbalat shabbat program. Bik developed broad musical activity in Haifa, he ran the first course for choir conductors in the Land of Israel in the 1930s, served as a singing teacher in elementary schools, directed public sing-alongs, and conducted orchestras in Haifa and surroundings. His famous song, Anachnu, is counted among the most important Hebrew songs composed in Israel, and was suggested a number of times to be the anthem of the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel. Before us is a rare, unknown photograph depicting Bik with a children's choir - in his youth, early in his career as a conductor in Russia. [Handwritten description on the reverse].
Size: 17x23 cm. Attached to an original stiff board from the photographer: 30x36 cm. Creases and tears in the upper part of the photograph. Crack across the width. Tears in two of of the board's corners. Moderate condition.
Rare photograph of four Jewish children from Bedzin, apparently members of one family, in traditional clothing - Poland, c. 1920s.
Photographer's stamp on the reverse, with the city: Bedzin.
14x9 cm. Peeling in the photograph's upper section. Fine condition.
Photograph of the Av Beit Din, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky.
Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky [1867-1948], student of Rabbi Simchah Bunim Sofer, rabbi of Galanta and Chust in Hungary. The Ashkenazic city committee appointed him to serve as rabbi of the Eidah Chareidit of Jerusalem, successor to rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, in 1852. Among the great adjudicators, Rosh Yeshivah of 'Beit Yosef Tzvi' which was named for him, and among the heads of Agudat Yisrael B'Eretz Yisrael.
14x9 cm. Staple marks at the top and bottom. Fine condition.
Photograph of the gaon Rabbi Chaim Churi, among the great rabbinical leaders of Tunis.
Rabbi Chaim Churi [1885 - 1957] was among the great rabbinical leaders of Tunisian Jewry of the 20th century. When he was only 18 years old, he was rabbinically ordained and appointed teacher and cantor in the Gabès community in southern Tunisia. He established the Torah V'Chaim yeshiva in Djerba, authored dozens of books, encourages the Jews of Tunisia to immigrate to the Land of Israel and even took various practical steps to support the Jews who immigrated to Israel. His grave, which is in the cemetery in Beer Sheva, is a major pilgrimage spot for those who wish to merit salvation, and many petitioners visit over the entire year, especially on the anniversary of his passing, it is a pilgrimage site for thousands of pilgrims.
14x9 cm. Except for a slight crack in the lower left corner, very fine condition.
Special collection of 32 photographs documenting the first days of the Slobodka Yeshiva in the Land of Israel. Photographed by students of the first cohort in 1947.
The photographs depict the Yeshiva's cornerstone laying, the first foundations, group pictures of the first cohort of yeshiva students learning, in the yeshiva courtyard, in a group dance, during prayer, in the library, next to the yeshiva's rooms, and more. One of the photographs depicts the first wooden boards placed in the building's foundation against the backdrop of Bnei Brak, which was then almost entirely empty of stone buildings. Some pictures have all the photographed students' names detailed in handwriting on the reverse [Karlinsky, Ezrachi, Rabbi Nachum Kook and others], including some who eventually became Torah leaders in Israel. Some of the pictures depict the yeshiva students in 1948-1950.
Yeshivat Slobodka in Bnei Brak was established on Givat Rokeach in 1947 by Rabbi Issac Sher and his son-in-law Rabbi Mordechai Shulman, as a continuation of Yeshivat Slobodka in Lithuania, at the recommendation of the Chazon Ish.
Provenance: estate of one of the rabbis who studied in the yeshiva with the first cohort.
Size: 9x7 cm. Very fine condition.
Passport photo of the gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner.
The gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner [1906-1980], student of the "Alter" of Slobodka, rosh yeshiva of Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn and member of the Council of Torah Sages of America.
Size: 18x13 cm. Stains. Upper right corner cut. Moderate condition.