Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
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![Three mezuzah cases (“jitah del mezuzah”). [Algeria, Morocco or vicinity, early decades of the 20th century].
Silver s](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/106_1.jpg "Three Silver Mezuzah Cases – North Africa")
![Three mezuzah cases (“jitah del mezuzah”). [Algeria, Morocco or vicinity, early decades of the 20th century].
Silver s](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/106_2.jpg "Three Silver Mezuzah Cases – North Africa")
![Three mezuzah cases (“jitah del mezuzah”). [Algeria, Morocco or vicinity, early decades of the 20th century].
Silver s](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/106_3.jpg "Three Silver Mezuzah Cases – North Africa")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Three mezuzah cases (“jitah del mezuzah”). [Algeria, Morocco or vicinity, early decades of the 20th century].
Silver sheet, cut and repoussé, nailed onto wooden boards.
Three mezuzah cases of similar design: each centered with a seven-branched menorah, topped by the inscription “Shaddai”. Two of the plaques feature additional Temple implements, and one includes a pair of palms (Hamsa).
The third plaque slightly differs in design, with a pair of architectural columns topped with tree- or shrub-like floral motifs; this plaque also contains a mezuzah scroll affixed to its reverse and has decoratively cut edges.
Height: 22-24 cm, width: 15-16 cm. Condition varies. Two items with some missing silver sheet pieces.
Literature: Aviva Muller-Lancet (ed.), Jewish Life in Morocco, the Israel Museum, 1983, p. 60.
Category
Mezuzah Cases and Amulets
Catalogue Value
![Mezuzah case by Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert (1900-1981). [New York, ca. 1960s]. Signed on reverse: "Wolpert".
Ster](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/107_1.jpg "Mezuzah Case – Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert – New York, 1960s")
![Mezuzah case by Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert (1900-1981). [New York, ca. 1960s]. Signed on reverse: "Wolpert".
Ster](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/107_2.jpg "Mezuzah Case – Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert – New York, 1960s")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $500
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Mezuzah case by Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert (1900-1981). [New York, ca. 1960s]. Signed on reverse: "Wolpert".
Sterling silver, cut and pierced; ink on parchment.
Designed as a pair of Ark doors. Rectangular base with two holes for affixing to a doorpost; removable concave front inscribed in sewn Hebrew letters, in Wolpert’s distinctive style: "Barukh atah bevo'akha uvarukh atah betsetekha".
Cylindrical shaft in center for housing the parchment scroll, with small window revealing the word "Shaddai". The mezuzah parchment is written in Ashkenazi scribal hand (ca. mid-20th century).
Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert (1900-1981), Israeli-American designer and silversmith, a pioneer of the modernist style in Jewish ceremonial art. Born near Heidelberg to an Orthodox family of Eastern European origin, he studied sculpture and metalwork at the Frankfurt School of Arts, influenced by Bauhaus principles and the modernist designs of his teacher Christian Dell.
In 1933, following the Nazi rise to power, he emigrated to Palestine. In 1935, he joined the faculty of the New Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem, where he co-directed the metalwork department with David Heinz Gumbel.
Wolpert’s work is distinguished by its synthesis of modernist silversmithing with Hebrew typography and biblical texts. In 1956, he moved to the U.S., where he headed the Tobe Pascher Workshop for Modern Jewish Art at the Jewish Museum, New York.
For comparison, see: Sharon Weiser-Ferguson (curator), Forging Ahead: Wolpert and Gumbel, Israeli Silversmiths for the Modern Age, Israel Museum, 2012, p. 80 and p. 65 (Torah Ark doors) [Hebrew edition].
Approx. 13X9X1.5 cm. Good condition. Minor staining and blemishes. Suspension holes in the back.
Category
Mezuzah Cases and Amulets
Catalogue Value
![Six amulets. [Italy, 19th and early 20th century].
Silver sheet, repoussé and stamped; silver, cast and engrave](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/108.jpg "Six Silver Amulets – Italy, 19th and Early 20th Century")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
Six amulets. [Italy, 19th and early 20th century].
Silver sheet, repoussé and stamped; silver, cast and engraved (unmarked).
1-3. Three silver-sheet amulets of similar design: a central heart inscribed "Shaddai", surrounded by vegetal motifs; a flame-like ornament at the top and an angel-like ornament at the bottom (one of the amulets features an additional pair of angels, flanking the flame). Two mounted of the amulets are set leather bases covered with red velvet, with suspension rings.
4-5. Two silver-sheet amulets of similar design: heart-shaped, with the word "Shaddai" at the center and a flame-like ornament at top.
6. Cast silver amulet in architectural design, engraved with the text of the Priestly Blessing ("Birkat Kohanim").
Size Varies, 8X4 to 18X11.5 cm. Overall good condition. Minor dents and breaks to sheet-silver amulets.
Category
Mezuzah Cases and Amulets
Catalogue Value
![Two gold amulets:
1. Amulet-Pendant. [Iraq, early decades of the 20th century].
Ink and paint on parchment; g](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/109_1.jpg "Two Gold Amulets – Iraq / the Near East")
![Two gold amulets:
1. Amulet-Pendant. [Iraq, early decades of the 20th century].
Ink and paint on parchment; g](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/109_2.jpg "Two Gold Amulets – Iraq / the Near East")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $800
Sold for: $3,750
Including buyer's premium
Two gold amulets:
1. Amulet-Pendant. [Iraq, early decades of the 20th century].
Ink and paint on parchment; glass; gold; turquoise stones.
Round gold amulet, containing a round parchment slip inscribed with initial letters of the Ana Bekoach piyyut and various names for protection, set beneath glass. Gold frame is set with turquoise stones. A pin affixed to the reverse for attaching to clothing.
Diameter: 3.5 cm. One turquoise stone lacking.
2. Amulet. [Iraq or Kurdistan, ca. mid-20th century].
Gold, engraved.
Round gold amulet, engraved with initial letters of the Ana Bekoach piyyut, names of angels, a Star of David enclosing the word “Zion”, and the owner's name: "Rachima bat Nazdari".
Diameter: 5.2 cm. Suspension loop.
Category
Mezuzah Cases and Amulets
Catalogue Value
![Five amulets. [Near East, Iran / Kurdistan and vicinity, late 19th to early 20th century].
Silver, cut, soldered, repo](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/110_1.jpg "Five Silver Amulets – Near East")
![Five amulets. [Near East, Iran / Kurdistan and vicinity, late 19th to early 20th century].
Silver, cut, soldered, repo](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/110_2.jpg "Five Silver Amulets – Near East")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Five amulets. [Near East, Iran / Kurdistan and vicinity, late 19th to early 20th century].
Silver, cut, soldered, repoussé and engraved; glass; silver coins; tin bead.
1. Large amulet in the form of a three-dimensional rectangular frame with clipped corners, featuring a depiction of a LeMenatze'ach menorah and the verse “Shiviti Hashem lenegdi tamid” inscribed on parchment or paper, decorated in color. Russian silver coins from the 1860s suspended from the bottom of the amulet.
2. Hexagonal amulet case, inscribed (see Hebrew description).
3. Double-sided amulet, in the form of a large round pendant; one side inscribed with protective verses and attributes, the other with a personal dedication.
4. Small amulet in the form of a rectangular pendant, inscribed with the “Priestly Blessing” and the name “Moshe ben Chaim” (possibly of North African origin).
5. Woman’s arm amulet, inscribed with various verses and an animal-like motif, dated (?): 5612 [1852]. Includes a cotton thread and red-painted metal bead.
Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.
Category
Mezuzah Cases and Amulets
Catalogue Value
![Torah scroll. [Poland?, 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Particularly small format. On rollers (carved bone, bottom ha](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/139_1.jpg "Small-Format Torah Scroll – Arizal (Chassidic) Script – Poland, 19th C")
![Torah scroll. [Poland?, 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Particularly small format. On rollers (carved bone, bottom ha](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/139_2.jpg "Small-Format Torah Scroll – Arizal (Chassidic) Script – Poland, 19th C")
![Torah scroll. [Poland?, 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Particularly small format. On rollers (carved bone, bottom ha](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/139_4.jpg "Small-Format Torah Scroll – Arizal (Chassidic) Script – Poland, 19th C")
![Torah scroll. [Poland?, 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Particularly small format. On rollers (carved bone, bottom ha](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/139_5.jpg "Small-Format Torah Scroll – Arizal (Chassidic) Script – Poland, 19th C")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $9,375
Including buyer's premium
Torah scroll. [Poland?, 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Particularly small format. On rollers (carved bone, bottom handles from wood). Arizal-Ashkenazic (Chassidic) Stam script. In Vavei HaAmudim format.
Height of sheets: approx. 16.5 cm. Maximum height, including rollers: 29 cm. Good-fair condition. Many stains. Creases. Fading of ink. Deleted letters in several places. Old embroidered velvet mantle, embroidered with letters "M M" (in Hebrew and Latin script). Defects and tears to mantle.
Category
Torah Scrolls and Megillot on Parchment: Silver and Wooden Cases, Illustrated Esther Scrolls
Catalogue Value
![Torah scroll. [Poland?, ca. first half of 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Small format. On wooden rollers (carved woo](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/140_1.jpg "Small-Format Torah Scroll – Poland, 19th Century")
![Torah scroll. [Poland?, ca. first half of 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Small format. On wooden rollers (carved woo](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/140_2.jpg "Small-Format Torah Scroll – Poland, 19th Century")
![Torah scroll. [Poland?, ca. first half of 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Small format. On wooden rollers (carved woo](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/140_3.jpg "Small-Format Torah Scroll – Poland, 19th Century")
![Torah scroll. [Poland?, ca. first half of 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Small format. On wooden rollers (carved woo](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/140_4.jpg "Small-Format Torah Scroll – Poland, 19th Century")
![Torah scroll. [Poland?, ca. first half of 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Small format. On wooden rollers (carved woo](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/140_5.jpg "Small-Format Torah Scroll – Poland, 19th Century")
![Torah scroll. [Poland?, ca. first half of 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Small format. On wooden rollers (carved woo](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/140_6.jpg "Small-Format Torah Scroll – Poland, 19th Century")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $4,000
Sold for: $6,875
Including buyer's premium
Torah scroll. [Poland?, ca. first half of 19th century].
Ink on parchment. Small format. On wooden rollers (carved wood). Neat Stam script (Ashkenazic Beit Yosef script), with large decorative serifs (Tagim) at tops of columns.
Height of sheets: approx. 20 cm. Maximum height, including rollers: 40 cm. Overall good-fair condition. Stains (dark stains in several places). Creases. Some wear. Fading of ink. Letters deleted in several places. Open tear in Parashat Pinchas, repaired on new patch in accordance with halachah. Placed in velvet mantle (new).
Category
Torah Scrolls and Megillot on Parchment: Silver and Wooden Cases, Illustrated Esther Scrolls
Catalogue Value
![Torah scroll. [Israel, 20th century].
Ink on paper. Vellish (Sephardic) script.
Placed in wooden case, coated in v](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/141_1.jpg "Sephardic Torah Scroll – Israel, 20th Century")
![Torah scroll. [Israel, 20th century].
Ink on paper. Vellish (Sephardic) script.
Placed in wooden case, coated in v](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/141_2.jpg "Sephardic Torah Scroll – Israel, 20th Century")
![Torah scroll. [Israel, 20th century].
Ink on paper. Vellish (Sephardic) script.
Placed in wooden case, coated in v](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/141_3.jpg "Sephardic Torah Scroll – Israel, 20th Century")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $4,000
Including buyer's premium
Torah scroll. [Israel, 20th century].
Ink on paper. Vellish (Sephardic) script.
Placed in wooden case, coated in velvet and gilt metal.
Height of sheets: 55 cm. Good condition. Several scribal corrections throughout book. Maximum height of case: approx. 100 cm.
Category
Torah Scrolls and Megillot on Parchment: Silver and Wooden Cases, Illustrated Esther Scrolls
Catalogue Value
![Sheet from early Ashkenazic Torah scroll. [Ashkenazic lands, ca. 16th century].
Early Ashkenazic Stam script. Three co](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/142.jpg "Torah Scroll Parchment Sheet – Ashkenaz, Ca. 16th Century – Winding Le")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
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Sheet from early Ashkenazic Torah scroll. [Ashkenazic lands, ca. 16th century].
Early Ashkenazic Stam script. Three columns. 48 rows per column. The present sheet contains the end of Parashat Vayeshev and beginning of Parashat Miketz.
Two letters appear in winding (lefufot) form: a pei and a yud.
Parchment sheet. Height of sheet: 65 cm. Width: 58 cm. Good condition. Stains. Folding marks. Minor defects.
Category
Torah Scrolls and Megillot on Parchment: Silver and Wooden Cases, Illustrated Esther Scrolls
Catalogue Value
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,063
Including buyer's premium
Leaf from a parchment machzor manuscript. [Ashkenazic lands, ca. 14th century].
Large-format parchment leaf. Square Ashkenazic script, vocalized, on both sides of leaf. Letters in large script, 17 lines per page.
This leaf was reused as a binding or a folder, but is preserved almost in its entirety, apart from several defects and tears.
The leaf features a section from a kerovah piyyut by R. Moshe son of R. Kalonymus, recited in Ashkenazic communities at Shacharit of the eighth day of Pesach, from the kiklar piyyut Chacham Lev VeAmitz Koach.
[1] parchment leaf. 36.5X50.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Punctures, open tears and defects, affecting several words.
Category
Torah Scrolls and Megillot on Parchment: Silver and Wooden Cases, Illustrated Esther Scrolls
Catalogue Value
![Fragment of a parchment manuscript, the Book of Iyov. [Spain, ca. 14th/15th century].
Sephardic square script, vocaliz](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/144_1.jpg "Fragment of Parchment Manuscript – Book of Iyov – Spain, 14th/15th Cen")
![Fragment of a parchment manuscript, the Book of Iyov. [Spain, ca. 14th/15th century].
Sephardic square script, vocaliz](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/144_2.jpg "Fragment of Parchment Manuscript – Book of Iyov – Spain, 14th/15th Cen")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $300
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
Fragment of a parchment manuscript, the Book of Iyov. [Spain, ca. 14th/15th century].
Sephardic square script, vocalized and with cantillation. Parchment leaf containing four pages (defective and lacking beginning), from Iyov chapters 31-34. Minute Masoretic notes in margins.
Parchment leaf, 42X30 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Open tears, affecting text. Folding marks and other defects.
Category
Torah Scrolls and Megillot on Parchment: Silver and Wooden Cases, Illustrated Esther Scrolls
Catalogue Value
![Large-format Esther scroll. [Italy, apparently Rome, late 17th century].
Ink and paint on parchment; wood, turned and](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/145_1.jpg "Large-Format Esther Scroll – Italy, 17th Century – Illustrations and D")
![Large-format Esther scroll. [Italy, apparently Rome, late 17th century].
Ink and paint on parchment; wood, turned and](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/145_2.jpg "Large-Format Esther Scroll – Italy, 17th Century – Illustrations and D")
![Large-format Esther scroll. [Italy, apparently Rome, late 17th century].
Ink and paint on parchment; wood, turned and](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/145_3.jpg "Large-Format Esther Scroll – Italy, 17th Century – Illustrations and D")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,750
Including buyer's premium
Large-format Esther scroll. [Italy, apparently Rome, late 17th century].
Ink and paint on parchment; wood, turned and carved.
Esther scroll written on 6 parchment sheets sewn together, 21 lines of text, 21 lines per column. Serifs (Tagim). Sewn to tall wooden handle, with a crown-like decoration topped by a large bud.
At outer edge of scroll, large family coat of arms – an erect lion holding a branch in its front paw, resting its back paw on a wheel (perhaps the Bondi family coat of arms) – within a decorated, framed cartouche and surrounded by a wide, colorful architectural frame composed of a pair of pillars, a parapet balustrade and frieze illustrated with flowers and fruits. At end of scroll, large illustration added at a later date (apparently from the 20th century), depicting King Ahasuerus and Mordechai, with a frame matching that of the former illustration.
Height of parchment: 33.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Fading of ink and paint. Stains throughout scroll. Outer edge of scroll worn and stained, as usual, with tear of approx. 3 cm. Height of roller: 61 cm. Overall good condition, two open cracks to upper decoration.
Category
Torah Scrolls and Megillot on Parchment: Silver and Wooden Cases, Illustrated Esther Scrolls
Catalogue Value