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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Handwritten notebook, Sermão pregado no K.K. T.T. em Amsterdam por Joseph de Jacob Bassan, em sabath Behaalotecha, 19 Sivan 5582 [Sermon delivered at the Talmud Torah community of Amsterdam by R. Yosef de Yaakov Bassan, 19th Sivan 1822]. [Amsterdam, 1822]. Portuguese with some Hebrew.
Apparently author's autograph.
R. Yosef son of Yaakov Bassan is one of the three authors of the book of bakashot and piyyutim Shir Emunim, Amsterdam 1793. The same name appears as the signature of the editor and copyist of Kodesh Hilulim (Columbia Ms. X 893 K 81).
Another manuscript, similar to the present one, contains another Portuguese sermon by R. Yosef de Yaakov Bassan (see: Fuks, L. and Mansfeld-Fuks, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Ets Haim, Leiden, 1975, II, p. 16, no. 34).
[13] leaves. Approx. 19 cm. Good condition. Old paper wrapper, with some wear and tear.
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![Parchment manuscript, Shabbat songs. [Amsterdam?, ca. 19th century].
Ashkenazic square script, in two hands, with piyy](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/500_1.jpg "Parchment Manuscript – Shabbat Songs")
![Parchment manuscript, Shabbat songs. [Amsterdam?, ca. 19th century].
Ashkenazic square script, in two hands, with piyy](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/500_2.jpg "Parchment Manuscript – Shabbat Songs")
![Parchment manuscript, Shabbat songs. [Amsterdam?, ca. 19th century].
Ashkenazic square script, in two hands, with piyy](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/500_3.jpg "Parchment Manuscript – Shabbat Songs")
Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Parchment manuscript, Shabbat songs. [Amsterdam?, ca. 19th century].
Ashkenazic square script, in two hands, with piyyutim: Yadcha Tancheni by R. Yisrael Najara (in the first hand), and Yedid Nefesh, El Mistater and illustrations of the Tetragrammaton with "24 ayins" (in the second hand, in Ashkenazic Stam script, with decorations).
[9] parchment leaves (two blank). 18 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Several leaves loose or detached. Pencil inscription on front endpaper. Original leather binding, with gilt decorations, with wear and defects.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Lot 501 Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, With Instructions, Laws and More in Yiddish – Amsterdam, 1829
![Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, with instructions, explanations and laws, and other sections in Yiddish. [Amsterdam], 1829.](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/501_1.jpg "Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, With Instructions, Laws and More in Yid")
![Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, with instructions, explanations and laws, and other sections in Yiddish. [Amsterdam], 1829.](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/501_2.jpg "Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, With Instructions, Laws and More in Yid")
![Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, with instructions, explanations and laws, and other sections in Yiddish. [Amsterdam], 1829.](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/501_3.jpg "Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, With Instructions, Laws and More in Yid")
Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, with instructions, explanations and laws, and other sections in Yiddish. [Amsterdam], 1829.
Written on a premade notebook beginning with a printed engraving (with figures of Moses and Aaron, the giving of the Torah and the Temple). This engraving was prepared for the Torah edition published by R. Naftali Lowenstam son of R. Yaakov Moshe Rabbi of Amsterdam, 1827-1828.
In the center of the title page, over the original text and decoration of the engraving, is mounted a piece of paper with a title page for the Haggadah, "written by Natan son of Yaakov Buchbinder, 1829".
Haggadah text in square script. Laws and instructions in Yiddish in Ashkenazic cursive script.
Before Avadim Hayinu appears the story of the Exodus in Yiddish. A verse-by-verse Yiddish translation is included in Echad Mi Yodea and Chad Gadya. At end of Haggadah, formula for Eruv Tavshilin (in Aramaic) translated into Yiddish.
[1], 40 leaves. 18.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains (dampstains and dark stains, resulting from use of Haggadah for the Seder night). Wear and defects, affecting text on several leaves. Leaf 15 detached. Original binding, with tears and defects.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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![Manuscript, statutes of Shomer LaBoker society. [Amsterdam], 1836.
Square script and Ashkenazic cursive script, with t](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/502_1.jpg "Manuscript – Statutes of Shomer LaBoker Society – Amsterdam, 1836")
![Manuscript, statutes of Shomer LaBoker society. [Amsterdam], 1836.
Square script and Ashkenazic cursive script, with t](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/502_2.jpg "Manuscript – Statutes of Shomer LaBoker Society – Amsterdam, 1836")
![Manuscript, statutes of Shomer LaBoker society. [Amsterdam], 1836.
Square script and Ashkenazic cursive script, with t](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/502_3.jpg "Manuscript – Statutes of Shomer LaBoker Society – Amsterdam, 1836")
![Manuscript, statutes of Shomer LaBoker society. [Amsterdam], 1836.
Square script and Ashkenazic cursive script, with t](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/502_4.jpg "Manuscript – Statutes of Shomer LaBoker Society – Amsterdam, 1836")
Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Manuscript, statutes of Shomer LaBoker society. [Amsterdam], 1836.
Square script and Ashkenazic cursive script, with the statutes of the Shomer LaBoker society, a Chevra Kadisha founded over a hundred years prior.
Includes ten statutes, each written on a separate leaf, mostly in Yiddish with some Hebrew, with names of members and officials. On following leaves, Dutch inscriptions, signed (apparently by society officials) and dated 1837 and 1876.
[2], 10, [2] leaves (and more blank leaves). 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Some wear. Original cardboard binding, with defects.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
Opening: $400
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Handwritten notebook, list of names for Yizkor prayer, prayers and selected passages from the Zohar, and other notes on Torah and halachah. [Amsterdam, ca. 1850s-1860s].
Long and narrow notebook for use in Yizkor prayer. The writer is R. Yaakov Meir Lehren, brother of
R. Tzvi Hirsch Lehren of Amsterdam, founder of the Pekidim VeAmarkalim society (d. 1853) – also mentioned in the present notebook. Others mentioned include family
R. Tzvi Hirsch Lehren of Amsterdam, founder of the Pekidim VeAmarkalim society (d. 1853) – also mentioned in the present notebook. Others mentioned include family
ancestors R. Meir son of R. Fishel of Bomsla [Maharam Fishels of Mladá Boleslav, a leading Torah scholar of Prague, member of the Beit Din of the Noda BiYehudah, d. 1770] and his son-in-law R. Baruch HaLevi Duschenes who moved from Prague to serve as rabbi in the Netherlands [ancestor of several distinguished Dutch families], his teachers from the Mannheim Kloiz, and others.
Approx. [33] written pages. 8X20 cm. Fair-good condition. Wear and stains. Detached leaves. Original binding, loose.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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![Three booklets in one volume, prayers to be saved from plague and illnesses. Amsterdam and the Hague, [ca. 1727]. Hebrew,](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/504_1.jpg "Three Rare Prayer Booklets – Prayers for Plague – The Netherlands, 172")
![Three booklets in one volume, prayers to be saved from plague and illnesses. Amsterdam and the Hague, [ca. 1727]. Hebrew,](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/504_2.jpg "Three Rare Prayer Booklets – Prayers for Plague – The Netherlands, 172")
![Three booklets in one volume, prayers to be saved from plague and illnesses. Amsterdam and the Hague, [ca. 1727]. Hebrew,](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/504_3.jpg "Three Rare Prayer Booklets – Prayers for Plague – The Netherlands, 172")
![Three booklets in one volume, prayers to be saved from plague and illnesses. Amsterdam and the Hague, [ca. 1727]. Hebrew,](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/504_4.jpg "Three Rare Prayer Booklets – Prayers for Plague – The Netherlands, 172")
Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Three booklets in one volume, prayers to be saved from plague and illnesses. Amsterdam and the Hague, [ca. 1727]. Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch.
• Order of prayer for mercy against evil sicknesses, according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam, [1727]. 11 leaves.
Bound with:
• Orden Delas oraciones y Rogativas compuestas para pedis piedades sobre las enfermedades las malas. Amsterdam, 1727. Spanish. Prayers recited publicly on 28th Tishrei 1727. Translated by R. Shlomo Yehudah Leon Templo. [1], 37 pages.
• De groote Devotie en Gebed, gedaan in de Portugeese Joode Synagogue... wegens de tegenwoordige in zwang gaande Ziektens [Order of prayers recited in the Portuguese synagogue, against evil sicknesses]. The Hague, [1727?]. Dutch. 32 pages.
The prayers were recited publicly on October 13 (28th Tishrei 1727?). Edited at the instruction of R. Shlomo Ayllon.
Three booklets in one volume. Approx. 12 cm. Partially dark paper. Overall good condition. Stains. New leather binding, with gilt decorations.
Rare booklets. Spanish and Dutch booklets not recorded in NLI catalog (only few copies of the Spanish edition recorded in OCLC). The Dutch edition is bibliographically unknown.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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![Ascamoth da Sta. Irmandade Hesed veemeth [Statutes of the Chesed VeEmet Chevra Kadisha]. Amsterdam, 1748. Portuguese.](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/505_1.jpg "Statutes of Chesed VeEmet Chevra Kadisha in Amsterdam – 1748 – With Ma")
![Ascamoth da Sta. Irmandade Hesed veemeth [Statutes of the Chesed VeEmet Chevra Kadisha]. Amsterdam, 1748. Portuguese.](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/505_2.jpg "Statutes of Chesed VeEmet Chevra Kadisha in Amsterdam – 1748 – With Ma")
![Ascamoth da Sta. Irmandade Hesed veemeth [Statutes of the Chesed VeEmet Chevra Kadisha]. Amsterdam, 1748. Portuguese.](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/505_5.jpg "Statutes of Chesed VeEmet Chevra Kadisha in Amsterdam – 1748 – With Ma")
![Ascamoth da Sta. Irmandade Hesed veemeth [Statutes of the Chesed VeEmet Chevra Kadisha]. Amsterdam, 1748. Portuguese.](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/505_6.jpg "Statutes of Chesed VeEmet Chevra Kadisha in Amsterdam – 1748 – With Ma")
Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Ascamoth da Sta. Irmandade Hesed veemeth [Statutes of the Chesed VeEmet Chevra Kadisha]. Amsterdam, 1748. Portuguese.
Statutes of the Chesed VeEmet Chevra Kadisha of the Spanish community in Amsterdam. Includes text of statutes reinstated by community leaders, along with copies of protocols, decisions and letters relating to the internal management of the society, appointments, membership dues and manner of burial.
Originally included 69 pages, including blank pages to be filled in. Additional gatherings added ca. 1760 (with continuous pagination), bound into copies of book. The present copy includes both original and added pages. One known copy contains more gatherings (until p. 101).
At end of present volume, 30 pages handwritten by an administrator of the society, from ca. 1776-1798, with names of members and their distribution into divisions. Some names deleted (for deceased members) or otherwise annotated for presence, payment, retirement, etc.
On title page (and top of p. 31), engraving depicting rinsing of the dead body.
69 pages (including numbered blank pages) + [16] unnumbered blank leaves; additional gatherings: 71-92 pages + [37] leaves (some blank). Approx. 13 cm. Good condition. Stains, creases and minor tears. Endpaper detached. Gilt edges. Original leather binding, somewhat worn, with pair of brass clasps.
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![Diskuhrs, first Yiddish periodical, in defense of the new and old communities of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, [1797-1798]. Yiddis](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/506_1.jpg "Diskuhrs, In Defense of the New and Old Communities of Amsterdam – Ams")
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Diskuhrs, first Yiddish periodical, in defense of the new and old communities of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, [1797-1798]. Yiddish. Two volumes.
Two volumes containing satirical-humoristic booklets published on behalf of the new Adat Yeshurun community and the old community.
• Diskuhrs fun di naye kehila – periodical of the new community of Amsterdam, against the old community. [Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe, 1797-1798]. 24 issues (no more were printed).
24 issues (varying foliation, 4-8 leaves per issue; issue no. 21 includes 18 leaves). Blank leaves between some issues. Approx. 18 cm. Uneven trimming. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Tears (paper repairs to last leaf). Leather binding and new endpapers, gilt-decorated. Minor tears to spine.
• Diskuhrs vegn di naye kehila – periodical of the old community of Amsterdam against the new one. [Amsterdam: Proops, 1797-1798]. 15 issues: 1-5, 13-22. Lacking last issue, no. 23.
16 issues were published in total.
Fine woodcut illustration of passenger carriage on first leaf of issues nos. 1-2, 5.
15 issues (varying foliation, 4-8 leaves per issue). Leaves 2-3 of issue 3 lacking. 19 cm. Uneven trimming. Fair-good condition. Stains and wear. Creases and tears. New leather binding and endpapers, gilt-decorated. Minor tears to spine.
Each volume bound with a designed title page followed by a photocopy depicting the controversy, the individuals involved and the end of the controversy and reunion of the communities. These leaves appear in a copy in the Royal Library of the Netherlands (probably the source of these photocopies; see also: Kedem, Auction 102, 7 May 2025, Lot 114), and are not recorded by Roest.
After the occupation of Holland by the French in 1795, a group of Jewish intellectuals founded a new congregation named Adat Yeshurun that introduced aesthetic changes to prayers and to customs inspired by the Sephardi congregation. A dispute broke out between the old and new communities involving mutual accusations.
During this dispute, each of the communities published booklets against the other, including dialogues and satirical ordinances.
The Diskuhrs booklets are considered the first Yiddish periodical. For more information, see: "The 'Diskuhrs' of the old and new congregation in Amsterdam" by Yosef Michman, in: Michmanei Yosef, Jerusalem, 1994. pp. 135-143 (Hebrew).
And see also:
• Adri K. Offenberg, Emile G.L. Schrijver and F.J. Hoogewoud, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana Treasures of Jewish Booklore, marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Leeser Rosenthal, 1794-1994. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1994, pp. 86-87.
• Roest, pp. 70-71.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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