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100 (HAGADAH). Linien Hagadah shel Pesach. Interlinear text in Lot 102
Yiddish and Hebrew. pp. 36. Ex-library, browned and stained. Original Lot 103
printed wrappers, detached and torn. 12mo. Yudlov 2284.
Philadelphia, Joseph Magil(nitzky), 1904. $150-200

101 (HAGADAH). Supplementary Readings and Songs to the
Haggadah. FIRST EDITION. Text in English and Hebrew. Includes six
pages of sheet-music. pp. (6), 33, (1). Original printed wrappers. 12mo.
New York, Society for the Advancement of Judaism, 1924. $300-500
❧ THE EARLIEST RECONSTRUCTIONIST PUBLICATION.
The Society for the Advancement of Judaism was founded
in 1922 by Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983). The present
publication includes four historical essays by Kaplan himself,
Simon Dubnow, Israel Zangwill and Ahad Ha’am.

102 (HAGADAH). Erkölcsvédelmi Hagada [“Hagadah for Moral
Protection… Easter Humor for Racists and Other Jews.”] Imre
Nagy. Text in Hungarian. Illustrated with black-and-white
drawings. pp. 30, (2). Original pictorial printed wrappers in gilt. 8vo.
Budapest, Az Ojság, (1926). $600-900
❧ An unusual and uncommon parody of the Passover Hagadah.

103 (HAGADAH). Haggadah 5705. A. de Jong and L. van Amerongen-Assçher (eds). Hebrew and
Dutch on facing pages. Printed from left to right. The beginning Hebrew text of the Kiddush
(p. 7), as well as the concluding Hebrew of Adir Hu and Le-Shanah ha-Ba’ah bi-Yerushalayim
(p.20) have been improvised in a rudimentary Hebrew hand. pp. 24. Mint condition. Original
printed wrappers. 16mo. Yudlov 3944; Yaari 2312.
Eindhoven, Drukkerij Hermes, 1945. $600-900
❧ This Hagadah was issued by the Joodsche Coördinatie Commissie voor het bevrijde
Nederlandsche gebied (“Jewish Coordinating Commission for the Liberated Netherlands
Governmment”) in the southern, liberated part of the country, while the north was still
occupied by the Germans. In their foreword the editors write that due to the annihilation
of the Jews by the Germans, Hebrew books have become totally unavailable (p. 4).

104 (HAGADAH). Hagadah shel Pesach. Edited by Menachem Katz Penned by hand and then
mimeographed in square Hebrew characters with Nikud; printed on one side of each leaf
only. Title and upper cover with illustration of traditional Seder plate. ff. (30). Browned.
Original printed wrappers, light wear. 8vo.
Nice, 1945. $1000-1500
❧ RARE HAGADAH FROM NICE, FRANCE, ISSUED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO THE END OF THE SECOND

WORLD WAR.

Clearly, only a very limited number of copies of this Hagadah were printed, and due to
both the flimsy format in which it was produced and the circumstances of the time, it is
certainly scarce. No bibliographic record of this edition - although see reference by Yudlov,
no. 3984A.

105 (HAGADAH). Hagadah shel Pesach. Hebrew, non-traditional text. With humorous military-
style cartoons illustrating the text, in the theme of the Seder. Printed in blue. pp. 22. Original
printed wrappers. 12mo.
Italy, 1945. $500-700
❧ Issued for the Surveying Company (Plugat Hamodadim) of the Jewish Brigade, based
in Italy.
The Jewish Brigade was the only military unit in the Allied forces to serve in World War
II as an independent, nationally Jewish formation.

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Lot 106 Lot 108 Lot 111

106 (HAGADAH). Passover. Korea 1952. Hebrew and English translation. Non-traditional text. Includes Seder-meal menu and schedule of
services. Arranged by Captain Rabbi Herbert Chanan Brichto and Captain Rabbi Harry Z. Scheiner of the Eight United States Army, Korea
(EUSAK). Original pictorial wrappers, upper cover with symbols of the chaplaincy along with those divisions of the armed forces that
sponsored the celebration. pp. 32. 8vo. Yudlov 4327.
Korea, 1952. $1000-1500
❧ For the use of Jewish soldiers serving in the U.S. military forces based in Korea.

107 (HAGADAH). Hagadah shel HaKos Hachamishit - Haggadah de la Cinquième Coupe.” Magnificently illustrated by Raymond Moretti.
Calligraphy by Asher Amar. ONE OF 299 NUMBERED COPIES signed by the artist and publisher. Text in Hebrew and French. With 21 magnificent
lithographs by Raymond Moretti (17 in color, 4 black-and-white), 12 double-paged. Each signed by the artist in pencil. Introduction by Chief
Rabbi Shlomo Goren. Commentary by Rabbi Léon Ashkenazi and preface by Rabbi Tsvi Yehouda Hacohen Kook. Loose as issued in original
green velvet clamshell box with gilt lettering in Hebrew and English. Folio.
Paris - Jerusalem, Georges Israel, 1980. $1000-1500
❧ French artist Raymond Moretti (1931-2005) here illustrates the Passover Hagaddah utilizing the Hebrew alphabet as elements in their
most abstract form.
108 HAI BEN SHERIRA. (Gaon of Pumbeditha). Mishpatei Shevu’oth [“A Treatise
on Oaths”]. With Midrashic material on the blessings of Jacob to his children and
Braitha Melacheth HaMishkan. FIRST EDITION. Title within decorative cartouche. With
signature of Wolf HaLevi Boskowitz (author of Seder LeMishnah) on title. ff. 55. Lower
left corner of title in facsimile, lightly stained. Modern boards. 8vo. Vinograd, Venice 951.
Venice, Daniel Zanetti, 1602. $1000-1500
❧ Hai Gaon reformulated the Kol Nidrei prayer, opposed as he was to the
absolute annulment of vows on Yom Kippur Eve.
The signatory, R. Benjamin Ze’ev (Wolf) Boskowitz (1740-1818) was the son
of R. Samuel Kolin, the author of Machazith HaShekel. He was among the great
rabbinic leaders of Hungary, serving as the first rabbi of Budapest.

109 (HASKALAH). Bikurei Ha’itim [literary journal] Vols. I-III bound in one. In
Hebrew and Judeo-German. With large folding publisher’s ad. Ex-library, some
staining, small tear on fold out. Modern boards. 8vo.
Vienna, Anton Schmid, 1821-23. $300-400
❧ This literary-scientific journal was a central forum for Haskalah
literature for twelve years. The editor Shalom Cohen sought to
follow the literary tradition set by the first Haskalah periodical
HaMe’assef. The first issue contains a biography of Moses Mendelssohn
(pp. 20-2). See EJ, vol. IV cols. 992-3.

Lot 107
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110 (HASK ALAH). Yerushalayim [literary and historical journal]. Edited by Lot 110
Abraham Mendel Mohr and Ya’akov Bodek. Three issues bound in one volume.
ALL PUBLISHED. pp. 92; 103; 103. Modern half calf. 8vo. Weiner 5031.
Zolkiew-Lemberg-Prague, 1844-45. $400-600
❧ The editors, who were brothers-in-law were well known Galician Hebraists.
Many of the most prominent Polish Maskilim contributed scholarly articles
on a variety of topics to their highly regarded journal.

111 HELLER, YOM TOV LIPMANN. (“Tosfos Yom-Tov.”) Tzurath Beith Hamikdash
He’Athid [on the design of the Third Temple]. Third edition. With DETAILED
DIAGRAM on the final page depicting the future Temple composed by R. Moshe
Aschkenazi Ivier. ff. (2), 22. Trimmed and stained, final leaf remargined with minor loss.
Later marbled boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Grodno 6.
Grodno, Stanislav Augustus, 1789. $2000-3000
❧ Based upon the Book of Ezekiel chaps. 40-43, an analysis on the design of the
Third Temple to be erected following the arrival of the Messiah. The title-page
states that this edition is the first to carry R. Moshe’s explanatory diagram of the
Temple.

112 HELLER, YOM TOV LIPMANN. (“Tosfos Yom-Tov.”) Ma’adanei Yom Tov
V’Lechem Chamudoth [novellae to the Ro’sh - Rabbeinu Asher ben Yechiel].
Second complete edition, first edition with amended title (see below). With an
enthusiastic approbation by R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz. Previous owner’s stamps
including Ben-Zion, son of Jacob Ettlinger. ff. (2), 2-320. Stained, slight worming
on opening leaves, two leaves loose (ff. 99-100), few edges worn. Contemporary calf, worn.
Folio. Vinograd, Fürth 185.
Fürth, Tzvi Hirsch Ben Chaim, 1745. $500-700
❧ The author originally entitled the present commentary Ma’adanei Melech
(“Royal Delicacies”), based upon Jacob’s blessing of the tribe of Asher
(Genesis XLIX:20) - the dual meaning referring both to the necessity
of bread and to the delicacies of a king. Similarly, the dual purpose of
the work itself, was to provide legal decisions of Halacha of relevance
to all, along with intricate pilpulistic discourses for the pleasure of the
scholar - who is considered as a king. However, the author’s detractors
deviously misconstrued the meaning of the title as an insult to the reigning
monarch and a portent of revolution. Indeed R. Heller was imprisoned and
in this second edition the publishers judiciously altered the title to the more
innocuous “Ma’adanei Yom Tov.” However, they republished the original
introduction which still refers to the work as Ma’adanei Melech.

113 HELLER, YOM TOV LIPMANN. (“Tosfos Yom-Tov.”) Derush Chidushei
HaLevana… Miyut HaYare’ach [concerning the diminishing of the Moon]. FIRST
EDITION. pp. (4), 54, (3). Ex-library, some staining. Unbound. 8vo. Friedberg, Daled 1025.
Vilna, Finn and Rosencrantz, 1866. $500-700

114 (HOLOCAUST). Das Jahr 1938 - Kalender der Berliner Juden. Annual calendar
printed in black and red featuring Sabbath and Festival times, along with weekly
Torah portions. With twelve reproductions of Biblical and Jewish portraits and
scenes, perforated for easy removal; select Hebrew prayers and telephone directory
of community rabbis. 89, (7). In original color pictorial wrappers featuring an Isidor
Kaufmann painting on upper cover, tape repair to spine. 12mo.
Berlin, Jewish Community of Berlin, (1937). $200-300

Lot 113

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115 (HOLOCAUST). Shaul Tchernichovsky. Typed
Letter Signed, on headed paper of The Hebrew
PEN Club of Palestine, written in English, to his
PEN counterpart, Antonio Aita of Buenos Aires,
Argentina, requesting the later bring to the attention
of his Executive Board the enclosed appeal to help
the Jews of Germany. ACCOMPANIED BY: “The Hebrew
Writers Appeal to all Men of Letters Throughout the
World” (see below). pp. 2. Central folds. Sm. 4to.
Tel Aviv, November 18th, 1938. $3000-5000
❧ “The persecution of defenseless Jews in
Germany has assumed proportions beyond the
range of human experience of past centuries.
We call on all writers and educated men to
lend their moral and material aid in this dark
hour; to reveal what is left of enlightened world
opinion… Silence at this hour will go down in
history as the spiritual bankruptcy of Twentieth
Century Europe and America… Demand the
opening of all possible doors of refuge to these
suffering victims; and in particular insist on the
opening of Palestine.”
In 1929, a group of Hebrew-language writers
established the Hebrew PEN Club in Palestine -
independent of its predecessor, the Jewish PEN
Club in Vilna - based on the feeling that the
Yiddishists did not represent modern literature
in Hebrew.

Lot 115 116 ( HOL OC AUST ) . S (hloy me) Mendelsohn.
The Polish Jews Behind the Nazi Ghetto Walls.
First separate English edition. Six photographic
illustrations of Ghetto conditions. pp. 32. Original
illustrated wrappers, ink-stamp on upper cover. 8vo.
New York, Yiddish Scientific Institute-YIVO, 1942.
$300-500
❧ Early illustrated report on the state of Jews in
Nazi-occupied Poland.

117 (HOLOCAUST). Broadside from the Lodz Ghetto:
“Wohngebiet der Juden betreten wird mit dem Tode bestraft! Litzmannstadt den 1. V. 1940. Gettoverwaltung gez. Biebow.” [“Entrance to the

Residential Area of t​​he Jews is Punishable by Death! …Signed by the Ghetto Administrator (Hans) Biebow.”] 17 x 24 inches. Browned, tear along
central crease, rolled.

Lodz, 1940. $1000-1500

❧ When German forces occupied Lodz on the 8th September
1939, the city had a population of some 670,000 of whom 30%
were Jewish. The Nazi authorities sought to “purify” the Polish
city (which they renamed Litzmannstadt) and thus forcibly
removed all Jews to specific streets within the Old City. Over
a period of months, barriers were erected to cut the area off
from the rest of the city and by the 1st May, 1940 all Jews were
formally sealed within the ghetto walls.

Hans Biebow was the chief Nazi administrator of the Lodz
Ghetto, whose role was to usher it through a “grand scheme
of historic population changes,” beginning with its isolation
and culminating with the murder of its entire population. See
J. Horowitz, Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City
(2008).

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118 (HOLOCAUST). Safe Conduct Pass of Aron Weksler of Białystok,
Poland. Bearing visas for travel from Lithuania to Curaçao (or other
overseas Dutch territory), with transit through Japan.
Issued by Japanese Consul in Kaunas, CHIUNE SUGIHARA, with his
manuscript endorsement and original signature. And by Acting Dutch
Consul in Kaunas JAN ZWARTENDIJK, with his endorsed stamp and original
signature. Document of Polish citizenship issued by the Polish Interests
Section of the British Legation in Kaunas and signed by Charge
d’Affaires, SIR THOMAS PRESTON. One printed page containing manuscript
entries, verso with stamped endorsements and original signatures, and
attached integral blank. Texts in French, Polish, English and Japanese.
Photograph of Weksler on first page. Central folds, rust marks from paper
clips. 8 x 11.5 inches.

Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, 14th December, 1939 / 30th July, 1940 / 31st
July, 1940. $10,000-15,000

❧ A HIGHLY RARE, ORIGINAL TRAVEL DOCUMENT ISSUED BY JAPANESE

DIPLOMAT CHIUNE SUGIHARA AND DUTCH DIPLOMAT JAN ZWARTENDIJK.

THIS SINGLE PAPER ALLOWED THE JEWISH BEARER TO ESCAPE AN

OTHERWISE CERTAIN DEATH IN LITHUANIA.

Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara served as Vice-Consul of the Empire
of Japan in Lithuania, based in Kaunas. During World War II, he
helped thousands of Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas for
travel to Japan. Most of these Jews were refugees from Nazi-occupied
Western Poland, or Soviet-occupied Eastern Poland, as well as
residents of Lithuania.
In the Fall of 1939, after leaving his position as Deputy Foreign
Minister in Manchuria, Sugihara was posted to Kaunas to serve as
Japan’s Consul with orders to monitor Soviet and German troop
movements in the Baltic region. In the Summer of 1940, Lithuania
was officially annexed by the Soviet Union as a constituent Soviet
republic and all foreign diplomats were ordered expelled. Jewish
Lot 118 refugees present in Kaunas were terrified, as now, in addition to

their trauma having escaped from Nazism, the threat of Communist control arose. Possibilities for escape were few: All of Western Europe
was now occupied by the Nazis, thus any possible gateway to Palestine and the American continent was closed. Any remaining possible
option required diplomatic permits – visas – to cross international borders.
Agonized by the plight of the Jewish refugees and with the support of L. P. de Decker, the Dutch Ambassador to the three Baltic States,
who resided in Riga (Latvia), the part-time acting Dutch consul in Kaunas, Jan Zwartendijk, agreed to help by providing documentation
for travel to the Caribbean island of Curaçao. Yet such a journey would require passage through a destination accessible from where those
fleeing currently were. Chiune Sugihara aware that these Jewish applicants were in danger the longer they stayed in Lithuania - and with
no evidence of support from his Foreign Ministry - began issuing transit visas, for travel eastward, through Japan. Soon he was ordered
by Tokyo to cease issuing such paperwork, yet so troubled was Sugihara by the frightening situation of the Jews, he chose to disobey the
order all the while receiving warnings from his superiors of personal
prosecution. On the 4th September 1940, the Soviets forcibly closed
the Japanese legation, yet even from the very train that was to transport
him out of Lithuania, Sugihara continued to issue visas - often single
documents suitable that saved an entire family.
Eleven months later the small window of escape was indeed gone.
Lithuania was occupied by Germany and the majority of the Jews that
remained in the country were swiftly murdered by the Nazis and their
local collaborators.
In 1985, the State of Israel honored Chiune Sugihara (1900-86)
with the title “Righteous Among the Nations” for his actions, the only
Japanese national to be so titled. Later, in 1997, Jan Zwartendijk (1896-
1976) the Dutch Consul in Kaunas, was posthumously honored as
“Righteous Among the Nations.”
By breaking diplomatic protocol, the selfless actions of these
two diplomats based in Lithuania in the Summer of 1940 enabled
thousands of desperate Jews the possibility of surviving the murderous
Nazi onslaught against European Jewry.

IT IS ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN 40,000 JEWS (SURVIVORS AND THEIR

DESCENDANTS) ARE ALIVE TODAY DUE TO THE ISSUE BY ZWARTENDIJK AND

SUGIHARA OF THIS “VISA FOR LIFE.”

Lot 118 (Reverse)

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Lot 119
119 (HOLOCAUST). Four Bank of England counterfeit notes forged by Jewish concentration

camp prisoners, under Operation Bernhard, based in Sachsenhausen. One of each: £5,
£10, £20 and £50. 5 x 8.5 inches.

(Sachsenhausen, Germany), 1943. $4000-6000
❧ During World War II, the Nazis devised a secret plan of economic warfare -
Operation Bernhard - to destabilize the British economy by flooding it with forged
bank-notes. In 1943 the Germans introduced into circulation counterfeit British £5,
£10, £20 and £50 notes. A talented team of Jewish concentration camp prisoners were
forced to create, what became the largest counterfeiting operation in history. The
notes are considered among the most perfect counterfeits ever produced.

* WITH: Brian Burke. Nazi Counterfeiting of British £ Currency During World War II.
(San Bernardino, 1987).

(SEE ALSO LOT 127)

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Lot 120 Lot 121
120 (HOLOCAUST). “Bekanntmachung…” Public Notice issued by Karl Hermann Frank,

SS Obergruppenführer of the Reichsprotektorats of Bohemia and Moravia. Printed
broadside. Text in German and Czech. 17.75 x 23.5 inches.

Prague, 27th May, 1942. $3000-4000
❧ High-ranking SS General Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (1904-42), who
chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference which devised the Final Solution,
was ambushed in Prague on May 27th, 1942, by a British-trained team of Czech and
Slovak commandos who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill
Heydrich in an operation code-named Operation Anthropoid. As soon as Heydrich
died from injuries a week later, Hitler ordered extraordinary brutal reprisals. All
Gestapo agents in the entire Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were mobilized
in the search for Heydrich’s assassins and a mass dragnet involving thousands of
Nazi soldiers moved into action. Intelligence linked the assassins to the village of
Lidice which was subsequently razed to the ground, all its resident adult males were
executed and all its women and children were deported to the concentration camp of
Ravensbrück where most all were killed. The entire Nazi hierarchy up to and including
Hitler himself were consumed with the need to locate the attackers who were
eventually tracked down, but heroically committed suicide before capture.

This broadside, published just hours following the assassination attempt of
Heydrich, declares a state of civil emergency, as well as a 10 million kronen reward
for the capture of the perpetrators, followed by a series of threats and reprisals.

121 (HOLOCAUST). B(ernard Ber) Mark. Powstanie w Ghetcie Warszawskiem [“Warsaw Lot 122
Ghetto Uprising.”] FIRST EDITION. Text in Polish. pp. 70. Browned. Original illustrated
wrappers. 12mo.
Moscow, Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR, 1944. $1000-1500

❧ The first account of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Issued under Soviet auspices it was written by a participant, the Polish historian,
journalist and anti-Fascist activist, Bernard Mark (1908-1966).

122 (HOLOCAUST). Die Greuelpropaganda ist eine Lügenpropaganda Sagen die Deutschen Juden Selbst [“Atrocity Propaganda is Based on
Lies Say the Jews of Germany Themselves.”] Trilingual edition: German, English and French. pp. 142. Outer margin closely cut on pp. 59-60.
Original printed boards. 4to.
Berlin, Jakow Trachtenberg, 1933. $600-900
❧ A startling publication that denies the existence of anti-Jewish persecution or bias under the new Nazi regime in Germany. This
Orwellian volume contains letters from well-known German-Jews, denouncing the propaganda campaign against Nazi Germany that
was initiated overseas. To lend it further credibility, the book was printed at the Jewish press of Trachtenberg in Charlottenberg, the
Jewish district of Berlin, yet bears the imprimatur of Nazi potentate Walter Schauer.

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Lot 123
123 (HOLOCAUST). Protective Passport (“Schutz-Pass”) issued to a Hungarian Jew (Dr. Andreas Glücksthal) endorsed by Carl Ivan Danielsson

and RAOUL WALLENBERG. Single printed page with typed entries and original signatures. Text in German and Hungarian. Central heavy creases,
extremities with minute tears. 13.5 x 8.5 inches.

Budapest: Swedish Embassy, 26th August, 1944. $6000-9000
❧ AN ORIGINAL SWEDISH PROTECTIVE PASSPORT ISSUED BY THE FAMED RAOUL WALLENBERG.

This single piece of paper was the priceless ticket of life for a Jew otherwise destined to a certain death in Nazi occupied Hungary.
The Swedish protective passports issued by Raoul Wallenberg enabled tens of thousands of desperate Hungarian Jews the hope of
surviving the mass deportations that an increasingly defeated Nazi regime was determined to execute no matter the circumstances
elsewhere on the battle-field.
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was the ultimate pioneer in an extraordinary effort to save Hungarian Jews from their intended
wholesale murder by German Nazis and their Hungarian Arrow Cross allies. Wallenberg’s heroic actions began in July 1944, when the
Swedish Foreign Ministry, at the request of various Jewish organizations overseas, sent him on a rescue mission to Budapest, as an attaché
to the Swedish Embassy. By this time more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews living outside Budapest had already been deported to their death,
overwhelmingly to Auschwitz, via Nazi agencies led by Adolf Eichmann. The remaining population of Hungarian Jews, 230,000 in number,
were resident in the capital.
Upon arrival in Budapest Wallenberg redesigned the existing Swedish protective passport which he perceived to be physically
unimpressive. He determined that the Nazis and their Hungarian Fascist counterparts would likely be impressed by a more extrovert
“official” looking document. Hence Wallenberg redesigned the Schutzpass, and utilizing the blue and yellow colors of the Swedish flag,
centrally emblazoned the document with the symbol of the triple crown of Sweden. This redesigned passport issued by Wallengerg
subsequently saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews, as it was deemed authoritative by the German and Hungarian authorities, despite
the fact that in essence it had no actual legal bearing.
Each Schutz-Pass was signed by Wallenberg and Carl Ivan Danielsson (head of the Swedish mission to Budapest) and stated that the
bearer was under the protection of Sweden’s neutral authority and thus forbidden to be deported or even harassed. In addition to granting
physical immunity, the Schutzpass allowed for Hungarian Jews to remove the yellow Star of David from their clothing, which of course
provided them with an even greater sense of security. Along with protective papers, Wallenberg created in Budapest an “International
Ghetto” which housed thousands of Jewish refugees in extra-territorial safe-houses from within the vast majority were able to survive
until liberation. Tragically, Wallenberg fared otherwise disappearing following arrest by Soviet martial police in January, 1945. The
circumstances of ultimate fate remain undetermined.

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Lot 151 Lot 150
150 (ISRAEL, LAND OF). L.H. Vincent, E.J.H. Mackay and F.M. Abel. Hébron - Le
Lot 152
64 Haram El-Khalil: Sépulture des Patriarches. FIRST EDITION. Text in French. Two
volumes. Vol. I: Organized in two sections: Archeology and History. * Vol. II:
COMPLETE WITH 28 PLATES: Plans, transverse elevations, photographs and painted
architectural views and details of interiors and exteriors. Two plates of elements and
sculpture of capitals and pilasters drawn by Vincent (signed in the stone). Loose as
issued. Vol I: (1), vi, 256, (4). Original printed wrappers, spine detached. * Vol II: (8), 28
plates, some facing-pages. Original printed boards with tie closures, wear. Folio.

Paris, Éditions Ernest Leroux, 1923. $600-900
❧ Definitive and comprehensive work on Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs (also
known as the Ibrahimi Mosque). Includes detailed sections on the archeology
and history of the area prepared by two scholars of the École Biblique in
Jerusalem - Vincent and Abel, and the then Inspector of Antiquities for the
British Administration in Palestine, Ernest J. H. Mackay. The work also includes
images of Islamic architectural elements: Cenotaphs of the patriarchs and
matriarchs, mirhabs, Saladin’s minarets, the minbar pulpit, the Mamluk
entrances and a large-scale image of the Tomb of Isaac.

151 (ISRAEL, STATE OF). Mo’etzet Ha’Am [“National Council.”] pp. 26. Browned. Loose in
printed wrappers. 8vo.
Tel Aviv, Government Printing Office, May 16th, 1948. $1000-1500
❧ The complete minutes of the National Council, the political body that declared
the creation of the independent State of Israel; precursor body to the Knesset.
Before the formal Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel on May
14th, 1948, a Provisional State Council was established to prepare the groundwork
for the momentous events. Mo’etzet Ha’Am (The National Council), formally
came into existence at its first meeting on May 4th. The group officially comprised
37 delegate members from all across the Jewish political spectrum of the Yishuv,
although twelve of those members were stranded in Jerusalem, unable to attend.
The council met twice ten days later on May 14th, Independence Day itself, when
two sessions were held. At the first, the text was agreed upon with only minor
changes and approved unanimously. The final meeting was held in the auditorium
of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art at 4:30pm, at which time the State of Israel was
officially declared. Though it had only been in existence for ten days, Moetzet
Ha’Am occupies a unique place in the annals of Israeli history. Following the
Declaration, the body was renamed the Provisional State Council, which in turn
was renamed the Knesset on February 3rd, 1949.

152 JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS. Opera. Complete works: Antiquities of the Jews, The Jewish
Wars, Against Apion, Maccabees Printer’s device on title. Greek and Latin face `a face.
Historiated initials, headpieces and tailpieces pp. (8), 1102, (2 blank), 26. Trace foxed
and lightly stained. Some underscoring in red pencil. Modern vellum. Folio Schreckenberg,
Bibliographie zu Flavius Josephus (1968) p. 21.
Geneva, P. de la Rouvière, 1611. $500-700

Lot 153

153 (K ABBALAH). Sepher Yetzirah [“Book of Creation”] cosmogony. With traditional
commentaries of Nachmanides and Abraham ben David of Posquieres. FIRST EDITION. Title
within woodcut architectural arch. Numerous spherical charts and Kabbalistic diagrams.
Usually there appears at the end of the volume an illustrated leaf containing important
diagrams. In our copy, these volvelles have been cut out and mounted onto the appropriate
leaves (ff. 10v., 33r. and 77r). IT IS MOST RARE TO FIND A COPY OF SEPHER YETZIRAH WITH THE VOLVELLES
MOUNTED. Wide-margined copy. ff. 105 (ff. 98-105 misbound). With all volvelles (?), lightly stained
in paces, few marginal tears; censored on f.78-9 with
signatures on title page. Modern half morocco over marbled
boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Mantua 86.

Mantua, Jacob Cohen of Gazolo, 1562. $18,000-22,000

❧ “The earliest extant Hebrew text of Lot 153 (Detail of volvelle)
systematic speculative thought” (Scholem).

The Sepher Yetzirah (attributed to
Abraham the Patriarch), is not only the
earliest - but also the most esoteric of all
Kabbalistic texts, and certainly the most
influential. Its central subject is a compact
discourse on cosmogony, commencing with
the declaration that God created the world
with “thirty-two secret paths of wisdom.” These
paths are defined as the Ten Sephiroth along
with the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew
alphabet. The first chapter elaborates upon
the Sephiroth and the remaining five chapters
focuses upon the function of the letters. In
Talmudic times, it was believed that by
utilizing the Sepher Yetzirah one could create
life (see Tractate Sanhedrin f. 65b).

A FINE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT TEXT, INCLUDING THE TANTALIZINGLY ELUSIVE VOLVELLES, HERE

MOUNTED IN THE APPROPRIATE PLACES.

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Lot 154 154 (KABBALAH) Gikatilla, Joseph. Portae Lucis (“Gates of Light.”)
Paulus Ricius’ Latin translation of substantial portions of Sha’arei
Lot 155 Orah. FIRST EDITION IN ANY LANGUAGE. Latin interspersed with
66 vocalized Hebrew. Exquisite title woodcut by Hans Burgkmayr. Title
in red and black. Latin kabbalistic chart on f. 44v. Tailpiece of man in
armor. ff. (55). Final 11 leaves expertly reproduced in facsimile on old paper.
Later vellum, stained. Sm. 4to. Scholem, Bibliographia Kabbalistica
(1933), p. 128, no. 942; EJ, Vol. X, col. 635 (facsimile of title).
Augsburg, Johannes Miller, 1516. $4000-6000
❧ THE BOOK THAT OPENED THE PORTAL OF KABBALAH TO CHRISTIAN

HEBRAISTS.

Sha’arei Orah, a work roughly contemporaneous with
the publication of the Zohar, was composed by the Spanish
Kabbalist Joseph Gikatilla toward the end of the 13th century.
It has served countless generations of aspiring students as a
systematic primer of Kabbalah. By translating the work into
Latin, Paulus Ricius, a converted Jew, made available to
Christians for the first time, what amounts to an introductory
course in the concepts and keywords of the Kabbalah. Ironically,
the Hebrew original of this classic work would not be published
for another 45 years (Mantua, 1561). See EJ, Vol. X, col. 646.

155 (KABBALAH). Gaffarel, M.I. Curiositez Inouyes, sur la Sculpture
Talismanique des Persans. Horoscope des Patriarches, et Lecture
des Estoiles [“Unheard of Curiosities of the Talismanic Sculpture
of the Persians, the Horoscope of the Patriarchs, and Reading
the Stars.”] French interspersed with some Hebrew. Headpieces,
tailpieces, initials. Several Kabbalistic and astrological charts; at
rear two fold-out plates of the “Celestial Constellations Expressed
by Hebrew Characters.” pp. (16), 315. Lightly browned. Contemporary
limp vellum. 8vo.
Rouen, Jean Boullay, 1632. $1500-2000
❧ One of the chief exponents of 17th-century Christian
Kabbalism, French Catholic Jacques Gaffarel (1601-81) was
a scholar of Oriental languages who defended the Kabbalah
against attacks by Mersenne and others. Librarian to Cardinal
Richelieu, he was a also a respected astrologer.
This, Gaffarel’s most celebrated work, is most wide-ranging. It
includes a defense of the Jews against several classic calumnies,
and a positive examination of astrology from the Persian
tradition. Within his account of minerals, Gafarrel launches
into an examination of the concept of the “talisman,” a figure
or image engraved within a mineral which has the ability to tap
the power of a celestial constellation.
Much discussion is present concerning the suggested mystical
powers of the Hebrew letters, as well as the theory that the
constellations have been arranged in the form of letters, and by
knowing how to “read” the heavens, one may foretell the future.
Hence the presence in the volume of woodcut celestial maps upon
which stars have been depicted in the form of Hebrew letters.

156 (KABBALAH). Abraham Kohen (Alfonzo Nunez) de Herrera. Lot 157
Beth Elo-him [Kabbalistic discourses]. FIRST EDITION. Title
within architectural columns. Previous owner’s signature on
title Dov Halevi Mi-Chelma. ff. 88. Browned, some staining, slight
worming in places, previous owner’s stamp on title. Unbound. Sm. 4to.
Vinograd, Amsterdam 218; Fuks, Amsterdam 240.
Amsterdam, Immanuel Benveniste, 1655. $300-500
❧ Descended from a noble Marrano family, the author
(c. 1570–c. 1635) studied Kabbalah under the guidance of
R. Yisrael Sarug, one of the major disciples of Isaac Luria,
and was the first to undertake a systematic philosophical
interpretation of Kabbalistic thought, originally writing
in Spanish. De Herrera was held in high esteem by
Menasseh ben Israel, indeed he provided an approbation
to Menasseh’s ‘Conciliador’ in 1632.

157 (KABBALAH). Chessed Le’Avraham [Kabbalistic prayer book
based on the Kavanoth of R. Issac Luria, the AR”I]. Edited
by Abraham ben Shalom Tobeinah. Printer’s mark on verso
of title. Decorated manuscript depiction on five pages of the
Tetragrammaton, God’s four-letter name. ff. (1), 140. Some
tape repair to worming, stamp removed from title. Modern calf-backed
marbled boards. 4to. Vinograd, Mantua 532.
Mantua, Eliezer Solomon d’Italia, 1783. $800-1200
❧ This Kabbalistic prayer book contains the prayers for
the week, Sabbath and the New Month. Many of the
compositions were inspired by the controversial Chemdath
HaYamim, thus protests were lodged against the work upon
publication. See Weiner, Koheleth Moshe no. 4295.

158 (K AGAN, YISRAEL MEIR OF RADIN). Chofetz Chaim.
FIRST EDITION. Including the rare, original front printed wrapper,
and six-page list of subscribers. pp. 162, (6). Previous owners’ marks.
Contemporary boards. 4to. Friedberg, Cheth 1085; Weiner 4331.
Vilna, H. Dvorzetz, 1873. $1500-2500
❧ FIRST EDITION OF THIS PIONEERING HALACHIC WORK on the
laws of lashon-hara and rechiluth (derogatory speech and
malicious gossip).
Published anonymously, the author, R. Israel Meir Kagan
(1838-1933), was later to be acclaimed as the preeminent
Halachic decisor and “tzaddik” of his generation. Today,
he is universally referred to as the Chofetz Chaim, after the
title of this groundbreaking work.

159 JAFFE, MORDECHAI. Levush Butz Ve’argaman [elucidations
to Even Ha’ezer). Second edition. ff. 108. Stained, final few leaves
repaired with some loss. Modern boards. Folio. Vinograd, Prague 307.
Prague, Moshe Katz, 1623. $400-600

160 (K AR AITICA). Bashyazi, Elijah. Sepher HaMitzvoth…
Adereth Eliyahu [Karaite belief and practice] Third Edition.
Opening leaves with list of subscribers from various Karaite
communities. ff. (8), 228. Ex-library, lightly browned. Modern
boards. 4to. Weiner 236; EJ vol. IV, col. 297.
Odessa, 1870. $150-200

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Lot 161 161 K ATZ , MOSHE BEN Y ESH A I A H. Pnei Moshe [Aggadic
commentary on Talmud]. FIRST EDITION. ff. (2), 44. browned. Modern
Lot 164 boards. 4to. Vinograd, Wilhermsdorf 87.
68 Wilhermsdorf, Tzvi Hirsch of Furth, 1716. $400-600
❧ The author was a rabbi in Mezhiboz. He was descended from the
Maharal of Prague and provides his genealogy on the title-page.

162 KIMCHI, DAVID. (RaDa”K). Sepher HaShorashim [“Book of Roots;”
Biblical lexicon and grammar] Title within woodcut architectural
arch. Printed in two columns. Hebrew words occasionally provided
with nikud (vowel points). Sidebars with Latin equivalents. Some
marginalia. Christian-related passages censored. f. (1), 5-548 columns,
f. (1). Touch wormed and stained, title rehinged and lightly worn. Later
primitive boards. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 330.
Venice, Marco Antonio Giustiniani, 1547. $500-700

163 KOBLENTZ, YA’AKOV MEIR. Mafteach Hayam [on the number
“seven” throughout the Torah, Talmud, etc.] FIRST EDITION. Printer’s
mark on title. ff. 35. With signature of previous owner Binyamin
Niderhopheim on title. Browned. Contemporary boards, broken. 4to.
Vinograd, Offenbach 119.
Offenbach , Tzvi Spitz, 1788. $300-500
❧ From the approbations and introduction, we learn that the
author was blind, a disability he fell victim to aged fourteen.
Nonetheless, he was imbued with a nimble mind and
tremendous ability of recall. See A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher
(1958) p. 140.

164 KOHN-ZEDEK, JOSEPH. Sephath Emeth [polemic against Michael
Levi (Frumkin) Rodkinson.] FIRST EDITION. This copy SIGNED AND
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to the Chief Shochet of London, R. Nachum
Eliyahu Lipman. pp. 64. Stained. Contemporary boards. 8vo.
London, Ann Abrahams & Son, 1879-80. $300-500
❧ The author regards Rodkinson’s scholarship as not only
fraudulent, but that his personal character is quite hypocritical:
His demeanor appearing as a Chassid on some occasions, easily
changing to that of a heretic at other times.

165 LANIADO, SAMUEL. Kli Chemdah [homilies on the Torah
portions.] FIRST EDITION. Title letters within decorative woodcut
vignettes. Printer’s device. ff. 270, (7). Some marginal worming, few stains.
Modern boards. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 821.
Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1596. $800-1200
❧ Known as the “Ba’al ha-Kelim” (all of his works begin with the
word “keli”), R. Samuel Laniado (d. 1605) was one of the most
prolific scholars of Aleppo.
R. Samuel Laniado (d. 1605), one of the famed sages of Aram-
Tzova (Aleppo), is widely known as the “Ba’al HaKelim” as each
of his works commence with the word “Keli.” See David Sutton,
Aleppo: City of Scholars (2005) p. 260, no. 376.

166 (LITHUANIA). Žydų Tautinę Autonomiją Lietuvoje: Išleista Žydų Lot 166
Tautos Tarybos [“Jewish National Autonomy Lithuania: Publication of
the Jewish National Council.”] By L. Garfunkelis. FIRST EDITION. Text
in Lithuanian. Stamp of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of title page.
pp. 31, (1). Original printed wrappers, rear cover chipped chipped. 8vo.
Kaunas, S. Neumann, 1920. $1000-1500
❧ Published by the Jewish National Council of Lithuania, this
scarce work compiles materials relating to the Lithuanian Jewish
autonomy granted in 1920 by the Ministry for Jewish Affairs of
the Lithuanian government. Lithuanian Jews took active part
in the Lithuanian Wars of Independence, also known as the
Freedom Struggles, referring to the three wars that Lithuania
fought to defend its independence at the end of World War I.
As a result, the Jewish community was given a wide amount
of autonomy in education and taxation through community
councils until 1934 when the government scaled back and cases
of anti-Semitism increased.

167 (LITHUANIA). Nata Halevi Lipschitz. Arichath Yamim: The Way of
Life and Happiness for Parents and Children. Yiddish text. Illustrated
title page. Photograph of author before introduction. pp. 32. Ex-library.
Original colored printed wrappers bound into later boards. 12mo.
Kovno (Kaunas), S. Neiman, 1940. $500-700
❧ One of the last Jewish books published in Lithuania. The
year of this book’s publication, the Soviet Union occupied the
city of Kovno and overnight, obliterated Jewish cultural and
religious activities. A year later the Germans entered the city and
alongside Lithuanian Fascists, focused upon the murder of the
entire Jewish population. Four years later, when the war ended,
95% of the Jews of Kovno were dead.
The author of this work was the son of R. Ya’akov Lipschitz,
right hand of R. Isaac Elchanan Spector of Kovno.

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168 (LITURGY). Seder Tefilloth MiKol HaShanah KeMinhag Kehiloth Ashkenazim [Order of Prayers for the Entire Year]. A NEARLY IMMACULATE

COPY, WITH REMARKABLY WIDE MARGINS. ff. 352 [1-448]. Some marginal dampstaining, otherwise in extraordinarily fine condition. Owner’s inscriptions
on front free endpaper and f. 352v. Later limp vellum, partial yapp edges, edge of lower cover with minimal loss, remnants of leather ties. (Incorrect) title in
manuscript on spine. 16mo. Vinograd, Basle 138; Prijs 125.

Basle, Ambrosius Froben [and Israel Zifroni], 1579. $15,000-25,000
❧ THE FIRST SIDDUR PRINTED IN SWITZERLAND.

It is exceedingly rare to find a prayer-book in this state. The pristine nature of this copy may very likely be attributable to its having
remained undisturbed for centuries in the library of Perseigne Abbey, a Cistercian Monastery near Neuchâtel, a mere fifty miles from
where it came off the press in Basle. The monks were clearly unaware of the small volume’s true identity, as they mislabeled the binding to
read “Biblia Hebraica.” The Siddur was later acquired by the renowned Hebrew scholar Paul Humbert (1885-1972), professor and librarian
at the University of Neuchâtel.

Prijs records only two copies of this Siddur, located in the British Library and at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

AN IMPECCABLE COPY OF A HIGHLY SCARCE EDITION.

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169 (LITURGY / MISSIONARY). Christliche Kirchen-Gebether [Christian prayer- Lot 169
book] German and Judeo-German in larger square Hebrew characters face`a face.
Tailpieces. ff. 143. Browned. Contemporary mottled calf. 12mo. Vinograd, Prague 809.
Prague, Carolo-Ferdinandaeischen Buchdruckerei, 1720. $600-900
❧ For the most part, it was Protestant theologians and missionaries who
made use of Yiddish in their efforts to missionize amongst the Jews in the
early modern period. The present volume is a rare example of a Catholic
attempt to make the words of Christian prayer accessible to the newly
converted. This first edition used square Hebrew characters, presented
opposite the German text. By the time a second edition appeared in 1755,
the entire work, save for the title page, was printed in waybertaytsh.
See Aya Elyada, A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish
Language in Early Modern Germany (2012).

170 (LITURGY). Akdamuth vegam Ruth. FIRST EDITION. Two title pages; Corner of
first title repaired not affecting text, tear f.12 repaired. Lightly soiled. Aramaic
and Hebrew in square Hebrew script with nikkud; Yiddish in waybertaytsh.
Modern sea-green buckram, titles stamped on spine. ff. 24. Lightly stained, lower
corner of opening leaf neatly repaired. Modern turquoise boards. 24mo. Vinograd,
Frankfurt am Main 393; St. Cat. Bodl. 6306.1 col. 1700.
(Frankfurt am Main), Moses ben Kalman Speyer, 1721. $700-1000
❧ FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST DEDICATED COPY OF AKDAMUTH, ACCOMPANIED BY

MEGILLAT RUTH.

Akdamuth is a prominent liturgical poem (piyyut) written in Aramaic, by
Rabbi Meir bar Yitzchak of Orléans in the late 11th century. The poem is an
elaborately rhymed paean of praise for God, His Torah, and His people. To
this day, Akdamuth is recited in almost all Aschkenazic synagogues on the
first day of Shavuoth, at the beginning of the Torah reading. The printer
Moses ben Kalman Speyer explains the reason for this minuscule volume on
the first title page: “So that each one may carry it close to their bosom and
not search endlessly [for the text, which was absent from most prayer books of
the time.]” The edition also features an interlinear translation of the difficult
poetic Aramaic into Yiddish, so that readers would fully understand the words
they were reciting. To further enhance the desirability and functionality of this
small volume, Speyer also included another text recited only on Shavuoth - the
Book of Ruth.

171 (LITURGY). Order of Prayers [at a time of cholera] Single printed page. Text in
Judeo-German. One leaf. Unbound. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Unrecorded.
Breslau, 28th Elul, 1831. $500-700
❧ A cholera pandemic spread through Europe at this time. The present
announcement urges the recitation of early morning Selichoth (penitential)
prayers due to the worrisome health crisis.

172 (LITURGY). Machzor Mikol HaShanah [High-holiday and festival prayers for the
entire year]. According to Ashkenazi rite. Two volumes. Mispaginated. Vol. I: Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur. ff. 16, 202. * Vol. II: Sukoth, Pesach and Shavu’oth. ff. 16 (lacking
f. 2), 199 (of?) Final leaf with loss. Modern boards. 8vo. cf. Vinograd, Lemberg 598.
Lemberg, Chaya Grossman, 1837. $2000-3000
❧ A rare edition. The National Library of Israel possesses Volume I,
recording a pagination six leaves less than ours. Volume II is ENTIRELY

UNRECORDED.

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173 (LITURGY). Imrei Lev - Preghiere D’un Cuore Israelita [festival prayers]
Lot 178
72 Italian text only, with occasional Hebrew. Prepared by by Marco Tedeschi.
Four parts in one. Lithographed title printed in blue. Two fine lithographed
plates by A. Hoenig. pp. (6), 359. Lightly browned. Roan backed salmon boards with
gilt tooling, extremities worn. 8vo.

Asti (Piedmont), Fratelli Paglieri, 1852. $1500-2000
❧ The two expressive plates depict a synagogue congregation at prayer
and an emotive death-bed scene (both unknown to Rubens). The death-
bed scene depicts family members with prayer-books in their hands
- thus depicting the tradition requiring those in the presence of the
dying to recite a selection of Psalms and related prayers. A gentleman
points heavenward, seemingly encouraging the dying man to recite the
confession.

The introduction specifies that the prayer book was primarily intended
for women, both for their own use and for the purpose of instructing their
children. An entire section is devoted to prayers relating to death and
mourning and concludes with meditations on the nature of the soul and
immortality.

See: From This World to the Next - Jewish Approaches to Illness, Death
and the Afterlife, Catalogue of The Jewish Theological Seminary Library
(1999) p. 9 no. 1 (illus).

174 LOWENSTAMM, MORDECHAI. Mazkereth [eulogy for Tzirel Rachel,
daughter of R. Michael Shimon May, and wife of the author.] FIRST EDITION.
Hebrew with Yiddish translation. pp. 18. Lightly stained. Unbound. 12mo.
Vinograd, Breslau 211.
Breslau, H. Sulzbach, 1836. $200-300

175 LUNTESCHITZ, ABRAHAM ISAAC. Kelilath Yofi [Talmudic novellae and
responsa.] First edition. FIRST EDITION. ff. 76. Stamp of previous owner on title.
Unbound. 4to. Vinograd, Rodelheim 56.
Rodelheim, Wolf Heidenheim, 1813. $300-500
❧ The author was the rabbi of Westhofen, Germany. In the introduction
and the first responsa he thanks God for restoring his health and for
rescuing him in the aftermath of the French Revolution.

176 LURIA, SOLOMON. Yam shel Shlomo [novellae to Tractate Chulin]. Second edition. Title within elaborate decorative pillars. ff. (5), 4-10,
164. Mispaginated, though complete. Slight worming and staining, marginal repairs to final several leaves with a few words in facsimile. Modern calf. Folio.
Vinograd, Cracow 446.
Cracow, Menachem Nachum Meisels, 1646. $3000-4000
❧ A bibliographic curiosity is the fact that the contents of “f. 120v.” have been duplicated on the facing page “141r.” except that the latter
contains a line and a half missing in the former, from “shem shamayim le-vatalah” until “she’ein zo netilah kol ikar.” The explanation for
this curiosity is rather obvious. Realizing the omission of these lines, the printer then proceeded to reprint the entire page supplying the
missing text.

177 LUZZATTO, MOSES CHAIM. (RaMCHa”L). Mesilath Yesharim [“The Path of the Upright.”] The Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber of London
copy, with his signature on opening blank. ff. 52. Lightly stained. Loose in contemporary boards, rubbed. 12mo. Vinograd, Sklow 77.
Shklov, Carl Yakvelevitz, 1795. $300-500
❧ A scarce edition of an immensely influential book of ethics.

178 (MEDICINE). Eliakim Carmoly. History of the Jewish Physicians. Translated from the French and with notes by John R.W. Dunbar.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Engraved portrait Dr. Samuel Solomon tipped onto opening blank. pp. 94. Ex-library, worn. Contemporary roan, needs
rebinding. 8vo. Singerman 887; Rosenbach 558.
Baltimore, John Murphy, (1845). $300-500
❧ Covered here are the Jewish medical practitioners of antiquity, as recorded in the Bible and Talmud, and on through until the Middle
Ages. See H. Friedenwald, The Jews and Medicine, p. 116.

179 (MEGILATH ESTHER). Complete Scroll of Esther on paper. Printed text within lavish engraved pictorial border. Five joined leaves, 22 text
columns, plus an elaborately decorated opening panel containing initial blessings. First text panel with enframed, enlarged initial word; final
panel containing blessing and prayers recited after the megillah reading, Hebrew square and semi-cursive printed types. The text set within
elaborately engraved historiated borders depicting the characters and events that populate the Esther story, medallion vignette portraits
above. Paper repairs, affecting text of blessings, few minor marginal minor defects, occasional staining, creased as expected. Overall, a strong clear impression.
H: 22.3 cm. L: 235 cm. H: 8.75 L: 92.5 inches.
(Amsterdam, The Brothers Proops, Second half of the 18th-century). $3000-5000
❧ This rare Megillah provides valuable insight into the origins of an important series of engraved Esther Scroll borders. Produced in
the 18th century and extant in multiple copies and versions, these richly decorated borders long defied localization, and were variously
attributed to Italy, Germany, Bohemia/Moravia, and the Netherlands. What distinguishes the present example from nearly every
other representative of this type, is the fact that it was produced on paper (rather than parchment) and contains a printed (rather
than handwritten) text. Though such a scroll is not considered valid for liturgical recitation, it was only through a close examination
of the material and typography of an identical scroll, (sold at Christie’s, Amsterdam, 18th June 2002, lot 390), conducted by Dr. Adri
K. Offenberg, that established beyond the shadow of a doubt that these exceptional Esther Scroll borders were printed in the city of
Amsterdam in the second half of the
18th century.
Offenberg’s examination revealed
that two large sheets of high quality
Dutch Royal paper, cut horizontally
and vertically, were used to construct
the megillah. By identifying the
watermarks, Offenberg was able to
effectively narrow down the years
in which the paper was produced
to between 1730-1770. (The same
watermarks identified by Offenberg
in 2002 are also found on the present
scroll.) Offenberg further posited that
a likely candidate for the printers of the
current scroll, were the Brothers Proops
(Joseph, Jacob and Abraham Proops),
who were active in Amsterdam between
1734 and 1773.

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212 (WOMEN). Zemach Rabbiner. Las Madres Judias de la Epoca 215 (ZIONISM). Joseph Salvador. Paris, Rome, Jerusalem ou la
Biblica. FIRST EDITION. Text in Judeo-Español (Ladino). Additional Question Religieuse au XIX Siecle. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. pp.
title-page in French. pp. viii, 488. Recent morocco-backed marbled (4), iv, 511; (4), 493. Touch foxed. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled
boards with original printed wrappers bound in. 4to. Yaari, Ladino 286; boards, on cover scratched. 8vo.
Yaari, Const. 668. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1860. $600-900
Constantinople, Isaac Gabbai, 1913. $600-900 ❧ Joseph Salvador (1779–1873) was a French scholar of
❧ A series of scholarly studies concerning the women of the Sephardic origin. The present thesis “was his attempt to
Bible, from the famous to the obscure. Bears the encomium outline a universal religion based on a fusion of Judaism and
of W. Bacher, as well as the rabbinic approbations of Christianity. The author believed that the natural center for
Abraham Danon of Constantinople and Ben Zion Cuenque this syncretistic religion was Jerusalem, and visualized the
of Jerusalem (editor of HaMe’assef). The Latvian born evolution of this universal faith as a lineal outgrowth of what
author served as rabbi in Bulgaria for close to half a century, he imagined classical Judaism to have been. To achieve this
until his death in 1936. fusion of religions, Salvador advocated the establishment of
a new state, a bridge between the Orient and the Occident.”
213 (WOMEN). The Order of Prayers - of the United Hebrew See J. Adler, Restoring the Jews to their Homeland: Nineteen
Congregations of the British Empire. Translated, compared and Centuries in the Quest for Zion (1997) p. 130.
revised by RACHEL MAYER. ff. (4), 406. Browned. Original boards. 8vo. Salvador’s thinking is proto-Zionist. He viewed Jerusalem
Vienna, Appel Brothers, 1921. $150-200 and the future State of the restored Jews as a spiritual
❧ This extensive translation represents a Herculean literary condition, not a political one. His thesis was modified and
effort, all the more notable given that very little is know about echoed by later Zionist thinkers such as Theodor Herzl and
the female translator. Achad Ha’am.

214 (YESHIVATH MIR). Kovetz Chidushei Torah [novellae to Tractate 216 (ZIONISM). Leo Pinsker. Auto-Emancipation. Translated into
Berachoth]. By the Rosh Yeshiva of Mir, Rabbis and Dayanim of English by D.S. Blondheim. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. pp. (1), 16.
Lodz, and a group of working Mir alumni. FIRST EDITION. pp. 4, 44, 1. Ex-library, tape repair and browning to title page, pencil-marks throughout.
Browned. Original printed wrappers, chipped and taped. 8vo. Bound into library boards. Tall 8vo.
Lodz , M. Ben Yakir, 1936. $300-500 New York, Maccabaean Publishing Company, 1906. $500-700
❧ The introduction states that this publication was issued by ❧ Leon Pinsker (1821-91), hitherto an assimilationist,
a group of former Yeshiva students who subsequently went underwent a dramatic change in outlook following the
into business. In order to continue the spirit of the Yeshiva, Russian government-instigated pogroms in 1881. The
R. Yerucham Levovitz suggested they form a weekly study- publication of this famous tract, with its dispassionate analysis
group in Gemara. The editors here proudly state that these of the psychological and social roots of anti-Semitism,
published lectures were composed by those who worked provided the stimulus for the Chibath Zion Movement, the
for a living yet ensured they set aside time for Torah study. direct precursor to Herzlian political Zionism.
It should be noted that a few of these writers later became
celebrated rabbis in America.

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Lot 217 — Illustrated Books —
Lot 218
217 (JUDAICA). Goldstein, Maksymiljan and Karol Dresdner. Kultura i
Szutka Ludu Zydowskiego na Ziemiach Polskich [“The Culture and Art
of the Jewish People in Poland.”] ONE OF 1000 NUMBERED COPIES. Engraved
frontispiece by Arthur Szyk, signed below image. Two further engraved
plates by E.M. Lilien and S. Jakubowski. 158 photographic illustrations
of Jewish ceremonial and fine art. Introduction by Majer Balaban.
Summaries in English, French and German Original boards, gilt. Lg. 8vo
Mayer 865.
Lemberg, 1935. $800-1200
❧ Catalogue of the Maximillian Goldstein Collection of Judaica

218 KOSLOWSKY, NOTA. Israel: Its People and Places. Ten illustrated
plates. Loose as issued in original portfolio. Additional text plate. 13 x 18
inches (sheet size).
n.p, (1958). $200-300

219 (POSTCARDS). Collection of six illustrated New Year postcards,
featuring prominent Rabbinical figures from Germany and Poland.
From the rare series issued by Schottlaender. Each with inscriptions.
Breslau, early 20th-century, $600-800
❧ Includes: R. Akiva Eger, R. Shimon Sofer, R. Avraham Tiktin,
R. Dov-Ber Meisels, R. Yehonosan Eybeschutz, and the Smichos
Chachomim (R. Naftali HaCohen).

220 (ISRAËLS, JOZEF). Vereeniging tot Bevordering van Beeldende
Kunsten [Association for the Promotion of Visual Arts]. Jozef Israëls.
Complete set of six plates. Introduction by Edward Karsen. Text in
Dutch. Heavily stained. Loose as issued in original printed portfolio. Folio.
Amsterdam, Roeloffzen-Hübner and Van Santen, 1912. $300-500

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221 RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER. Shtetl. Mein Choruver Heim: A Gedekenish [“My Lot 223
Destroyed Home: A Memorial.”] 30 tinted and black-and-white lithographs (including Lot 224
title) numbered III-XXXI, all complete. Few fore-edges chipped. Original pictorial blue suede,
worn (as most all copies), covers detached. Oblong lg. folio.
Berlin, Verlag Schwellen, 1923. $1000-1500
❧ Following the retreat of Ukrainian Nationalist forces before the Russian Red
Army in 1919, mass killings of Jews occurred. One such pogrom took place in
Ryback’s birthplace, Yelizavetgrad (presently, Kropyvnytskyi), killing his father.
This moving series of lithographs portrays the ravaged Shtetl and expresses the
artist’s grief for a world he abandoned and was subsequently destroyed.
See Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance
in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928 (1987), no.136 i-xxx (illustrated); Jüdische
Lebenswelten Katalog, Berlin (1991), no.7/25 (illustrated).

222 SCHATZ, BEZALEL. Exhibition of Oil Paintings. San Francisco Museum of Art.
Photographic illustrations of the artist’s work. With original serigraph laid in, signed in
pencil by Schatz. Opening blank of this copy signed by Schatz and inscribed by him to
Grace Morley, director of the San Francisco Museum of Art. Foreword by Henry Miller.
pp. (20). Original printed wrappers. 4to.
San Francisco, 1949. $200-300

223 (SZYK, ARTHUR). Benoit, Pierre. Le Puits de Jacob [“Jacob’s Well.”] Preface by A.
de Monzie. Magnificent hand-colored illustrations by Szyk: 12 pochoir plates and 15
initials. One of 300 numbered copies. Original printed wrappers within gilt-tooled green
morroco, hand-made marbled endpapers. Sm. 4to.
Paris, Albin Michel, 1927. $600-900
❧ Le Puits de Jacob was the first modern work of fiction illustrated by Szyk. “The
theme of the novel accords perfectly with Szyk’s personal belief that Biblical stories
and teachings can serve as role models for modern Jewry.” See J.P. Ansell, Arthur
Szyk (2004) pp. 47-9, 273.

224 SZYK, ARTHUR. Ink & Blood. A Book of Drawings by Arthur Szyk. Introduction by
Struthers Burt. One of 1000 numbered copies, inscribed and signed by Szyk. Featuring
75 illustrated plates (several in color) Original black morocco gilt, rubbed. Fine hand-made
abstract-patterned end-papers. Housed in matching slip-case, loose at one end. Sm. folio.
New York, The Heritage Press, 1946. $500-700
❧ A powerful retrospective of Szyk’s wartime political illustrations. For a detailed
account how this dramatic collection of cartoons came to be published, see J.P.
Ansell, Arthur Szyk: Artist, Jew, Pole (2004) pp. 159-63.

225 (YUDOVIN, SOLOMON). E. Gollerbach & I. Joffe. Graviuri na Dereve [“Engravings
on Wood.”] FIRST EDITION. One of 1200 copies. Profusely illustrated with black and white
woodcuts of Russian-Jewish village life by Yudovin. Russian text. pp. 47, (1). Original
pictorial wrappers, extremities touch worn, inner margins neatly taped. Sm. 4to.
Leningrad, Academy of Arts, 1928. $600-900
❧ Born in the illustrious city of Vitebsk, Solomon Yudovin (1892-1954) studied art
under the great Yehudah Penn. Yudovin accompanied his uncle, S. An-sky, during
the course of the later’s two-year ethnographic expedition through the Jewish Pale
of Settlement.
See Israel Museum Catalogue, The Jewish Art of Solomon Yudovin (1991).

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— Manuscripts & Autograph Letters —

226 (ANTISEMITISM) An extraordinary world-wide study on anti-Semitism, created by the Holocaust survivor and prominent Argentinean
reparation lawyer, JOSÉ MOSKOVITS (1926-2014). Circa 1,000 Autograph Letters Signed. Contained in several binders (religious authorities
in two binders, politicians in four binders, academics, writers and journalists in one binder each). Along with two binders comprising
comprehensive indices of all parties written to, along with various statistics tabulating received responses. Along several additional folders
with ancillary materials. Further to the summary below, select extracts from these hundreds of letters are available upon request.
Buenos Aires (and worldwide), 1974-78. $20,000-25,000
❧ THE PROJECT:
Between the years 1974-78 (primarily, the winter of 1976-77), José Moskovits commenced a uniquely ambitious project, to conduct a
systematic, worldwide survey of attitudes towards anti-Semitism by individuals of influence. Canvassing by mail some 5,000 parties in more
than 150 countries, Moskovits addressed his survey to Heads of State, Prime Ministers, Presidents and numerous other politicians; as well as
scientists, journalists, authors, artists, doctors, and corporate, military and religious leaders.
Moskovits embarked on this project with the expressed objective of compiling and presenting the results of this giant investigation into a
book which was to be edited by Dr. Asher Mibashan (1914-2005), the Buenos Aires bureau chief of JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency). The
work however was never published, primarily due to the forced relocation of Moskovits from Argentina to Israel during the worst years of
the “Dirty War.” Moskovits and Mibashan however, did prepare the introduction for their unrealized magnum opus, and its contents shed
light on their own perspective on this truly amazing endeavor:
Quoting from the likes of Jean Paul Sartre, Sigmund Freud, James Parkes, Joachim Prinz, and numerous others, Moskovits and
Mibashan astutely reflect on the many facets of anti-Semitism, the psychological, the political, the sociological, the religious, and the
psycho-sexual. The closing words to their introduction are perhaps the most telling and most timeless. “This terrible disease of the spirit
seems to be the only example, in the entire repertoire of human psychopathology that, rather than attacking the one who contracts it, kills
instead only those who are immune from it.”

THE QUESTIONS:

The survey contained the following questions:
1) Do you think that Jew-hating (anti-Semitism) is a rational attitude or is it pathological?
2) In your opinion, has anti-Semitism objective causes? If so, are they of a theological, racial, economic, social, psychological or any other
nature?
3) Do you believe that an honest inter-religious dialogue is feasible and that it could be useful for a better living together?
4) Do you agree that the Jews, because of their weakness have often been chosen as scapegoats by governments and political bodies in
order to divert the attention of the masses from other, more pressing problems? In other words, that anti-Semitism practiced in any of its
forms, has been used as an unholy political weapon?
5) Do you feel that the malicious and consistent association of abhorrent concepts like “apartheid” or “racism” with Zionism constitutes
an anti-Semitic aggression and that we are now witnessing an offensive on a global scale against anything Jewish?
6) Could and should something be done in your view of this?
7) Do you believe that Anti-Jewish propaganda should be made a criminal offense of instigation to discrimination?

(Questions 5 and 7 were omitted from surveys sent to
correspondents in Arab countries. Question 7 was omitted in
questionnaires sent to Israelis).

Each survey was accompanied by a cover letter from
Moskovits, which explained the motivation behind the
project: “In my capacity of president of the Association of
Jewish Survivors from the Nazi Persecution, I have the honor
of writing you in order to obtain your opinion about anti-
Semitism in its various manifestations, its causes, effects, etc.
We, the survivors of Nazi persecution, having been witnesses

of the holocaust, have a very particular perception for
everything which openly or covertly reminds us of the
blackest period of mankind. We shall therefore duly value

your reply to the questions raised in the form.
Moskovits further invited each recipient to feel free

to proceed beyond the limitations of the questionnaire
and to openly and freely express themselves “according
to your own opinion” on the issue of anti-Semitism
in general, concluding with “Your viewpoint could be
most useful for a correct approach to the problem.” The cover
letters, like the surveys themselves, were written in one of five
languages: Spanish, German, French, Italian, or English.

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THE RESPONSE:

Moskovits received nearly one thousand responses to his survey,
from a remarkably diverse cross section of cultural, political,
scientific and academic elites from around the globe, expressing
nearly every imaginable response to his simple questionnaire.

He meticulously compiled the responses in over a dozen large
binders, sub-divided by profession and nationality. With
each response he included the original envelope and a
note containing the person’s name, country and language
in which he originally corresponded.
The collated answers run the gamut from brief

handwritten “Yes” and “No” responses, to lengthy excurses on
the history and development of anti-Semitism, to apologetics
meant to assuage the inherent guilt quite obviously felt by some
of the correspondents. Some, displaying a sign of the times,
questioned Moskovits’s motives, wondering if he had Communist
affiliations, and others attempted to explain why they would not or
could not answer the interrogatory.

Responses were received from countries throughout the
Americas, Europe (West and East), the Middle East Asia and Africa,
including such distant locales as Tonga, Rhodesia, New Zealand and
the Republic of Transkei. A small selection of those that responded
to Moskovits included: Birch Bayh, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Prof. Milton Friedman, Hans Dietrich Genscher, Princess Grace of
Monaco, King Hassan II of Morocco, Conrad Hilton, President Erich Honecker, President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, U.S. Vice President Hubert
Humphrey, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, Pierre Mendes France, U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie, President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania,
King Olav V of Norway, Olof Palme, Clairborne Pell, then - Prime Ministers of Israel Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, Otto Preminger, former
U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Alan Sillitoe, Lady Margaret Thatcher, Kurt Waldheim, Hon. William Whitelaw, etc.

BIOGRAPHY:

Yosef (José) Moskovits (1926-2014) was born in Mezöcsát, Hungary and by his early teens had already been sent to a forced labor
battalion. When his parents were seized and sent to concentration camps, Moskovits was able to flee and joined the Jewish resistance in
Budapest. Captured after an action in late 1944, he was held by the Hungarian Fascists of the Arrow Cross and imprisoned in the notorious
Margit prison in Budapest, contemporaneously with Hannah Szenes. Moskowitz was among the 30 prisoners freed during a daring raid
on the prison by members of the Zionist Hashomer Hatzair organization. After the liberation of Budapest by the Soviets in January 1945,
Moskovits became a leader of Dror-Habonim and was active in the covert effort to transport Jewish survivors to British mandatory Palestine.
In 1947, he was captured by the British and imprisoned in Cyprus until the end of the mandate and the declaration of the State of Israel.
Upon his arrival he fought as a volunteer in the Golani Brigade during the War of Independence, until he was wounded and honorably
discharged in 1949.

In 1953, Moskowitz and his wife Halina emigrated to South America, living for two years in Paraguay, before settling in Argentina.
In 1958 Moskovits opened a law office in Buenos
Aires to assist Holocaust survivors from all over South
America with reparation claims against Germany. His
maintained close contact with Simon Wiesenthal and
assisted in the identification of Nazi war criminals who
had fled to South America. Moskovits played a
particularly important role in the capture
of Adolf Eichmann, setting up safe houses
for the Mossad. His law office was also used
as a cover for Israeli agents searching for the
infamous Josef Mengele.

From 1967 to 1976, Moskovits was the
President of Sherit Hapleita, the Argentine
Association of Jewish Survivors of Nazi
Persecution. Raising awareness of the
Holocaust in Argentina, organizing
survivor reunions and commemorations,
participating in international Holocaust
events and conferences, and holding
demonstrations in support of the State of Israel.
At the height of Argentina’s so-called Dirty War,
from 1976 to 1984, Mr. Moskovits was forced to move
to Israel from where he continued to represent his
survivor clients. He maintained his position as Honorary
President of Sherit Hapleita until his death in 2014.

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