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Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $800
Unsold
Collection of booklets and journals of Jewish units in the British army. The first half of the 1940s.
Approx. 40 booklets and journals, most of them typewritten and mimeographed, printed for various Jewish units in the British army, including the Jewish Brigade and transport companies. The journals provide much information about the activity of the units, the battles and the lives of the Jewish soldiers in Europe. Some of them are accompanied by illustrations.
The collection contains:
• "Basha'ar" (At the Gate), internal booklet no. 3, 1941 – a booklet encouraging students to enlist in the British army. • Journals of No. 5 Water Tank Coy. R.A.S.C; 462 General Transport Coy. R.A.S.C; company 553, R.A.O.C; 178 General Transport Coy. R.A.S.C; and other companies. • Issue no. 3 of the journal of the 1st Palestinian Light Anti-Aircraft Battery. Merchavya, 1943. One of the articles in the issue deals with the need to enlist and fight for the Jewish Yishuv in face of the news about the destruction of European Jewry. • Issues 4-5 of "Bama'avak" (In the Struggle), the journal of the Jewish Brigade. Belgium, 1945. • A volume compiling various journals and leaflets; most of them of the Jewish transport companies. • and more.
A total of approx. 40 items (some of them bound together). Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Approx. 40 booklets and journals, most of them typewritten and mimeographed, printed for various Jewish units in the British army, including the Jewish Brigade and transport companies. The journals provide much information about the activity of the units, the battles and the lives of the Jewish soldiers in Europe. Some of them are accompanied by illustrations.
The collection contains:
• "Basha'ar" (At the Gate), internal booklet no. 3, 1941 – a booklet encouraging students to enlist in the British army. • Journals of No. 5 Water Tank Coy. R.A.S.C; 462 General Transport Coy. R.A.S.C; company 553, R.A.O.C; 178 General Transport Coy. R.A.S.C; and other companies. • Issue no. 3 of the journal of the 1st Palestinian Light Anti-Aircraft Battery. Merchavya, 1943. One of the articles in the issue deals with the need to enlist and fight for the Jewish Yishuv in face of the news about the destruction of European Jewry. • Issues 4-5 of "Bama'avak" (In the Struggle), the journal of the Jewish Brigade. Belgium, 1945. • A volume compiling various journals and leaflets; most of them of the Jewish transport companies. • and more.
A total of approx. 40 items (some of them bound together). Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Ottoman Palestine, WWI, Mandatory Palestine and Jewish Enlistment to the British Armys
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
A typewritten and mimeographed booklet marking the anniversary of the sinking of SS Erinpura which carried hundreds of soldiers of the 462nd Transport Company of the British Army. Published by the 462nd Transport Company, May 1, 1944.
A booklet commemorating the soldiers of the 462nd Transport Company, volunteers of the Jewish Yishuv in the British Army, who perished with the sinking of the SS Erinpura on their way to Malta, before the invasion of the Allies to Sicily. The booklet was printed by the surviving members of the company to mark the anniversary of the sinking of the ship. It contains a list of the members of the company who perished at sea, alongside testimony by one of the survivors, a short tribute by company commander Major Harry Yoffe, and additional texts.
Enclosed are three leaves of the newspaper "A Missive to the Male and Female Soldiers" issued by the executive committee of the Histadrut Labor Federation (June 1943 / May 1944), which contain articles about the 462nd Transport Company and the sinking disaster. One of the articles covers a memorial service the company held on the anniversary of the sinking of the Erinpura, noting that "the company published a special booklet in their memory that was distributed among the participants" (presumably, referring to the booklet before us).
On April 29, 1943, the SS Erinpura sailed from the port of Alexandria towards the island of Malta as part of a maritime convoy of 27 ships carrying equipment and supplies for the British army and 11 warships – a convoy that was supposed to take part in the invasion of Sicily. On board of the Erinpura were more than 300 officers and soldiers of the 462nd Transport Company, two companies of soldiers from South Africa, crewmen from India and several dozens of British people. On Saturday, May 1, 1943, two days after departure, the convoy was bombed by 12 German bombers. One of the bombs hit the Erinpura directly, leading to its sinking within minutes. Approx. 140 soldiers of the 462nd Transport Company drowned or were hit by machine gun fire. The survivors were brought back to Tripoli and Benghazi and then sent on leave to Palestine.
Booklet: 13 leaves, in a transparent nylon cover (new), 16.5X22 cm. Good condition. Stains. Worming. Tears and open tears along the edges of the leaves, most of them restored. Enclosed leaves: 25 cm. Numerous stains. Small tears, holes and filing holes.
The booklet is not in NLI.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
A booklet commemorating the soldiers of the 462nd Transport Company, volunteers of the Jewish Yishuv in the British Army, who perished with the sinking of the SS Erinpura on their way to Malta, before the invasion of the Allies to Sicily. The booklet was printed by the surviving members of the company to mark the anniversary of the sinking of the ship. It contains a list of the members of the company who perished at sea, alongside testimony by one of the survivors, a short tribute by company commander Major Harry Yoffe, and additional texts.
Enclosed are three leaves of the newspaper "A Missive to the Male and Female Soldiers" issued by the executive committee of the Histadrut Labor Federation (June 1943 / May 1944), which contain articles about the 462nd Transport Company and the sinking disaster. One of the articles covers a memorial service the company held on the anniversary of the sinking of the Erinpura, noting that "the company published a special booklet in their memory that was distributed among the participants" (presumably, referring to the booklet before us).
On April 29, 1943, the SS Erinpura sailed from the port of Alexandria towards the island of Malta as part of a maritime convoy of 27 ships carrying equipment and supplies for the British army and 11 warships – a convoy that was supposed to take part in the invasion of Sicily. On board of the Erinpura were more than 300 officers and soldiers of the 462nd Transport Company, two companies of soldiers from South Africa, crewmen from India and several dozens of British people. On Saturday, May 1, 1943, two days after departure, the convoy was bombed by 12 German bombers. One of the bombs hit the Erinpura directly, leading to its sinking within minutes. Approx. 140 soldiers of the 462nd Transport Company drowned or were hit by machine gun fire. The survivors were brought back to Tripoli and Benghazi and then sent on leave to Palestine.
Booklet: 13 leaves, in a transparent nylon cover (new), 16.5X22 cm. Good condition. Stains. Worming. Tears and open tears along the edges of the leaves, most of them restored. Enclosed leaves: 25 cm. Numerous stains. Small tears, holes and filing holes.
The booklet is not in NLI.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Ottoman Palestine, WWI, Mandatory Palestine and Jewish Enlistment to the British Armys
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium
An embroidered flag, approx. 300 letters and 26 photographs which had belonged to Ya'akov Bernstein, a soldier of the Palestine Regiment of the British Army. Various places in Palestine, North Africa and Europe, 1943-1946.
The Palestine Regiment was established in August 1942 as a mixed unit of Palestinian Jews and Arabs. In contrast to the volunteers' expectations, they were forbidden to carry national or Jewish symbols and its members were employed on guard duty far from the battlefield. In protest, the soldiers of the "Hebrew Battalion" of the Regiment (the unofficial name of the second battalion, which was composed of Jewish volunteers only) decided to raise the blue-and-white flag above the soldiers' tents, disregarding the British orders. The soldiers of the battalion were arrested; eventually, however, the British decided to comply with their demands, train them for combat and establish a Jewish force with national symbols – the Jewish Brigade. Before us is a collection of items which had belonged to a soldier of the regiment:
1. A Zionist flag – two stripes and a blue Star of David on white background. Embroidered on the flag in golden lettering: "The second Hebrew battalion, PLH, the Palestinian infantry" (Hebrew).
Approx. 100X134 cm. Good condition. Fold lines, stains and several small holes.
2. Approx. 300 handwritten letters (Hebrew), sent by Bernstein to a woman named Yael Judenfreud in Haifa, between the years 1943-1946. Most of the letters deal with personal matters, and some refer to military, national or historical matters: Jewish holidays, military activity, the establishment of camps, the ship voyage to Italy, the local population and the cities after the war, and additional subjects. Several letters were written on official regiment stationery.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. The letters have punch holes and are bound together with string (some are detached). Creases, stains, blemishes and minor tears.
3. 26 photographs: military vehicles, tent camp, military cemetery, sites and figures in the Middle East and other sights.
Approx. 6.5X4.5 cm to 6X8.5 cm. Good overall condition.
The Palestine Regiment was established in August 1942 as a mixed unit of Palestinian Jews and Arabs. In contrast to the volunteers' expectations, they were forbidden to carry national or Jewish symbols and its members were employed on guard duty far from the battlefield. In protest, the soldiers of the "Hebrew Battalion" of the Regiment (the unofficial name of the second battalion, which was composed of Jewish volunteers only) decided to raise the blue-and-white flag above the soldiers' tents, disregarding the British orders. The soldiers of the battalion were arrested; eventually, however, the British decided to comply with their demands, train them for combat and establish a Jewish force with national symbols – the Jewish Brigade. Before us is a collection of items which had belonged to a soldier of the regiment:
1. A Zionist flag – two stripes and a blue Star of David on white background. Embroidered on the flag in golden lettering: "The second Hebrew battalion, PLH, the Palestinian infantry" (Hebrew).
Approx. 100X134 cm. Good condition. Fold lines, stains and several small holes.
2. Approx. 300 handwritten letters (Hebrew), sent by Bernstein to a woman named Yael Judenfreud in Haifa, between the years 1943-1946. Most of the letters deal with personal matters, and some refer to military, national or historical matters: Jewish holidays, military activity, the establishment of camps, the ship voyage to Italy, the local population and the cities after the war, and additional subjects. Several letters were written on official regiment stationery.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. The letters have punch holes and are bound together with string (some are detached). Creases, stains, blemishes and minor tears.
3. 26 photographs: military vehicles, tent camp, military cemetery, sites and figures in the Middle East and other sights.
Approx. 6.5X4.5 cm to 6X8.5 cm. Good overall condition.
Category
Ottoman Palestine, WWI, Mandatory Palestine and Jewish Enlistment to the British Armys
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $2,500
Unsold
Approx. 45 "Shanah Tovah" (Happy New Year) greeting cards by the soldiers of the Palestine Regiment and the Jewish Brigade and female soldiers of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service). Late 1942 to late 1946.
Most of the cards bear the emblem or name of the unit, company or corps to which the writer had belonged – usually accompanied by a Star of David – and a short greeting for the New Year. On several of the cards, maps, illustrations or photographs were printed, some of them are simple and symbolic while others are detailed and well-executed, reflecting the technical means that were at the disposal of the unit. Many units and companies which served in a variety of capacities and fronts in the Middle East and in Europe are represented in this collection. Some of the cards note the location as "somewhere".
When the Jewish volunteers from Palestine served in the Palestine Regiment, before the establishment of the Jewish Brigade in September 1944, unofficial emblems were designed by the soldiers of the Jewish battalions themselves in order to emphasize their identity as Jewish soldiers and challenge the military authorities, which forbade the soldiers to carry Jewish flags and emblems. The emblems appeared on unofficial publications such as "Shanah Tovah" greeting cards and Haggadot, and to a certain extent, met the need of the Jewish soldiers from Palestine for self-identity and a flag.
Enclosed:
1. Printed "Shanah Tovah" postcard for the soldiers of the 88th infantry division of the USA army. Gorizia (Italy), the eve of Rosh Hashanah 1946.
2. Photographic "Shanah Tovah" greeting card from the DP camp of Grottaferrata in Italy. On the card, a montage of Jewish soldiers, a map of Palestine, the Arch of Titus and a sculpture of Moses, alongside Hebrew greetings of Happy New Year and "Long Live our homeland Israel!" (Hebrew). Late 1948.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Most of the cards bear the emblem or name of the unit, company or corps to which the writer had belonged – usually accompanied by a Star of David – and a short greeting for the New Year. On several of the cards, maps, illustrations or photographs were printed, some of them are simple and symbolic while others are detailed and well-executed, reflecting the technical means that were at the disposal of the unit. Many units and companies which served in a variety of capacities and fronts in the Middle East and in Europe are represented in this collection. Some of the cards note the location as "somewhere".
When the Jewish volunteers from Palestine served in the Palestine Regiment, before the establishment of the Jewish Brigade in September 1944, unofficial emblems were designed by the soldiers of the Jewish battalions themselves in order to emphasize their identity as Jewish soldiers and challenge the military authorities, which forbade the soldiers to carry Jewish flags and emblems. The emblems appeared on unofficial publications such as "Shanah Tovah" greeting cards and Haggadot, and to a certain extent, met the need of the Jewish soldiers from Palestine for self-identity and a flag.
Enclosed:
1. Printed "Shanah Tovah" postcard for the soldiers of the 88th infantry division of the USA army. Gorizia (Italy), the eve of Rosh Hashanah 1946.
2. Photographic "Shanah Tovah" greeting card from the DP camp of Grottaferrata in Italy. On the card, a montage of Jewish soldiers, a map of Palestine, the Arch of Titus and a sculpture of Moses, alongside Hebrew greetings of Happy New Year and "Long Live our homeland Israel!" (Hebrew). Late 1948.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Ottoman Palestine, WWI, Mandatory Palestine and Jewish Enlistment to the British Armys
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $1,800
Unsold
Approx. 290 items, including letters and receipts, stamps, labels, leaflets, tickets and other paper items issued within the framework of the "Kofer HaYishuv" (Community Ransom) taxation fund. Palestine, 1938-1948.
A large, varied collection of paper items documenting the "Kofer HaYishuv" (Community Ransom) fund – a taxation fund for financing the defense and security needs of the Jewish settlement in Palestine, founded by the Jewish National Council and active during the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine. The fund raised money by imposing indirect taxes on imported goods, public transport tickets, and various products; it was in fact a voluntary tax paid by the Jews of Palestine along with the taxes they were obligated to pay to the British Mandate government. The funds collected were used to train soldiers, to establish Tower and Stockade ("Homa u'Migdal") settlements and for additional security and defense needs.
The present collection contains:
• More than 200 receipts, labels, stamps and other paper items documenting the taxes imposed by "Kofer HaYishuv" – "Kofer HaYishuv" labels, including "Coffee shop and restaurant labels", "Kerosene label", "Smoker label" (labels that were attached to cigarette packets and match boxes), and more; a "Chocolate tax for the community ransom" stamp sheet and additional stamps; public transportation tickets ("Egged", "Kesher", "Aviv" and "haMa'avir"), with inked stamps indicating the tax had been paid; stamps, paper labels and receipts for importing agricultural products ("Community ransom – the allocation of agricultural import"); receipts, letters and envelopes with stamps and inked stamps of "Kofer HaYishuv"; a "Kofer HaYishuv" coin and more. Several of the items were issued by other, parallel enterprises – "Mas Herum", "Tav Magen" and "Magbit Hahitgaysut".
• Propaganda booklets and leaflets, including: an "Egged" schedule, with a text about "Kofer HaYishuv"; a small color poster; a rhymed children's story about "Kofer HaYishuv" by Emanuel Harussi, with illustrations by Nachum Gutman (Tel-Aviv, 1940); and more.
• Documents, letters, memorandums and printed leaflets, including: two leaflets of "News, the national secretariat of community ransom" (Hebrew), with a review of the activity for "Kofer HaYishuv" throughout the country; a copy of a letter by the Ramat-Gan branch of the Union of Zionist Revisionists in Palestine, to the management of the local council, in which they object to paying the "Kofer HaYishuv tax for public transportation" (February 1939); a letter on the official stationery of "the Yishuv committee by the national Council, the defense committee – community ransom" (Hebrew), about encouraging consumers to buy from importers who pay the tax; correspondence between the central presidency of the "Kofer HaYishuv" and the Union of Farmers in Palestine, the committee of the Moshava Har Tuv, the Petach-Tikvah municipality, and others; and more.
• A proclamation prohibiting support of "Kofer HaYishuv", signed in print by Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky and the rabbis of the Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities of Jerusalem.
A total of approx. 290 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
A large, varied collection of paper items documenting the "Kofer HaYishuv" (Community Ransom) fund – a taxation fund for financing the defense and security needs of the Jewish settlement in Palestine, founded by the Jewish National Council and active during the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine. The fund raised money by imposing indirect taxes on imported goods, public transport tickets, and various products; it was in fact a voluntary tax paid by the Jews of Palestine along with the taxes they were obligated to pay to the British Mandate government. The funds collected were used to train soldiers, to establish Tower and Stockade ("Homa u'Migdal") settlements and for additional security and defense needs.
The present collection contains:
• More than 200 receipts, labels, stamps and other paper items documenting the taxes imposed by "Kofer HaYishuv" – "Kofer HaYishuv" labels, including "Coffee shop and restaurant labels", "Kerosene label", "Smoker label" (labels that were attached to cigarette packets and match boxes), and more; a "Chocolate tax for the community ransom" stamp sheet and additional stamps; public transportation tickets ("Egged", "Kesher", "Aviv" and "haMa'avir"), with inked stamps indicating the tax had been paid; stamps, paper labels and receipts for importing agricultural products ("Community ransom – the allocation of agricultural import"); receipts, letters and envelopes with stamps and inked stamps of "Kofer HaYishuv"; a "Kofer HaYishuv" coin and more. Several of the items were issued by other, parallel enterprises – "Mas Herum", "Tav Magen" and "Magbit Hahitgaysut".
• Propaganda booklets and leaflets, including: an "Egged" schedule, with a text about "Kofer HaYishuv"; a small color poster; a rhymed children's story about "Kofer HaYishuv" by Emanuel Harussi, with illustrations by Nachum Gutman (Tel-Aviv, 1940); and more.
• Documents, letters, memorandums and printed leaflets, including: two leaflets of "News, the national secretariat of community ransom" (Hebrew), with a review of the activity for "Kofer HaYishuv" throughout the country; a copy of a letter by the Ramat-Gan branch of the Union of Zionist Revisionists in Palestine, to the management of the local council, in which they object to paying the "Kofer HaYishuv tax for public transportation" (February 1939); a letter on the official stationery of "the Yishuv committee by the national Council, the defense committee – community ransom" (Hebrew), about encouraging consumers to buy from importers who pay the tax; correspondence between the central presidency of the "Kofer HaYishuv" and the Union of Farmers in Palestine, the committee of the Moshava Har Tuv, the Petach-Tikvah municipality, and others; and more.
• A proclamation prohibiting support of "Kofer HaYishuv", signed in print by Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky and the rabbis of the Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities of Jerusalem.
A total of approx. 290 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Ottoman Palestine, WWI, Mandatory Palestine and Jewish Enlistment to the British Armys
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $600
Unsold
Collection of labels, receipts, stamps and other paper items of fundraising campaigns in Palestine/Israel, including items of "Magbit HaHitgaysut" (Mobilization Fund), "Magbit LeHatzala VeAliya" (Rescue and Immigration Fund), and more. [1940s-1950s].
Among the items: • 18 "Fighting Nation Tax" stickers for windshields, 1943-1945. The stickers read "has fulfilled his obligation to the Mobilization Fund of the Yishuv" [the Mobilization Fund, "Magbit HaHitgaysut", which operated in the Yishuv in Palestine since 1942, raised funds for the Yishuv's volunteers to the British army and for their families. When the goals of the fund were broadened to include assistance to Holocaust survivors, its name was changed to "Mobilization and Rescue Fund" (Magbit HaHitgaysut V'HaHatzala)]. • "To Every Household in the Yishuv", a brochure issued by "The National Committee of the Mobilization and Rescue Fund" announcing the fundraising campaign "For the Besieged Nation" (1946). • Certificates and receipts for participating in the fundraising campaign "For the Besieged Nation" and the campaign of "Tax for Our protection". • Several donation cards, including the "Blue Card" for a donation to "The Office for Social Aid to the Immigrant" and a donation card "For Social Aid to Immigrants from Germany". Mounted on the inside of the cards are stamps of various denominations given against the donations. • Three stamp sheets – "Immigration to Palestine Stamp". • Donation labels to the fundraising campaign of "Rescue and Immigration" and a proof of one of the labels. • Labels of WIZO, "For the Child Fund and Training Women and Immigrants" (with a typographical error on one of the labels).
A total of approx. 60 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Among the items: • 18 "Fighting Nation Tax" stickers for windshields, 1943-1945. The stickers read "has fulfilled his obligation to the Mobilization Fund of the Yishuv" [the Mobilization Fund, "Magbit HaHitgaysut", which operated in the Yishuv in Palestine since 1942, raised funds for the Yishuv's volunteers to the British army and for their families. When the goals of the fund were broadened to include assistance to Holocaust survivors, its name was changed to "Mobilization and Rescue Fund" (Magbit HaHitgaysut V'HaHatzala)]. • "To Every Household in the Yishuv", a brochure issued by "The National Committee of the Mobilization and Rescue Fund" announcing the fundraising campaign "For the Besieged Nation" (1946). • Certificates and receipts for participating in the fundraising campaign "For the Besieged Nation" and the campaign of "Tax for Our protection". • Several donation cards, including the "Blue Card" for a donation to "The Office for Social Aid to the Immigrant" and a donation card "For Social Aid to Immigrants from Germany". Mounted on the inside of the cards are stamps of various denominations given against the donations. • Three stamp sheets – "Immigration to Palestine Stamp". • Donation labels to the fundraising campaign of "Rescue and Immigration" and a proof of one of the labels. • Labels of WIZO, "For the Child Fund and Training Women and Immigrants" (with a typographical error on one of the labels).
A total of approx. 60 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Ottoman Palestine, WWI, Mandatory Palestine and Jewish Enlistment to the British Armys
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $600
Unsold
Approx. 140 certificates, documents, booklets and other paper items issued by various educational institutions; most of them in Palestine and a few in Europe. [ca. 1920s to 1950s]. Most of the items are in Hebrew.
Collection of diplomas, grade sheets, cards, booklets and leaflets, documents, letters and other paper items of various educational institutions in Palestine and Europe. Most of the items are of various educational institutions in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Safed, Petach Tikvah and other cities in Palestine, including the Herzlia Hebrew Gymnasium, the Nordia Gymnasium in Tel-Aviv, "Cheder Torah Tachkemoni" in Jerusalem, the Reali Hebrew School and the Technion in Haifa, and more.
Several items are of educational institutions in Europe, including: the Jawne school in Köln, the Herzlia Hebrew gymnasium in Vawkavysk, "A private elementary school for girls of the association for founding Hebrew schools in Lodz", and more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Collection of diplomas, grade sheets, cards, booklets and leaflets, documents, letters and other paper items of various educational institutions in Palestine and Europe. Most of the items are of various educational institutions in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Safed, Petach Tikvah and other cities in Palestine, including the Herzlia Hebrew Gymnasium, the Nordia Gymnasium in Tel-Aviv, "Cheder Torah Tachkemoni" in Jerusalem, the Reali Hebrew School and the Technion in Haifa, and more.
Several items are of educational institutions in Europe, including: the Jawne school in Köln, the Herzlia Hebrew gymnasium in Vawkavysk, "A private elementary school for girls of the association for founding Hebrew schools in Lodz", and more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Ottoman Palestine, WWI, Mandatory Palestine and Jewish Enlistment to the British Armys
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium
Sixteen letters, handwritten on official stationery, sent by the French Minister of Police Charles Cochon de Lapparent to the administrators of the 7th and 11th quarters of Paris and other government officials during the French Revolution. Paris, [1796-1797]. French.
Official letters containing opinions, requests and instructions about issues of law and punishment and various administrative issues under the responsibility of the French Minister of Police Charles Cochon de Lapparent. The letters refer, among other things, to the law requiring the locking of doors during the night and the punishment for breaking the law, the entrance of immigrants to France, and more.
The most interesting letter deals with a request by the Jews of Paris to open a synagogue in an apartment in 29 rue des Blancs-Manteaux. The letter, from December 1796, states that the opening of the synagogue should be permitted and notes that the Jews' freedom of religion is anchored in the French constitution.
The letters were divided into three groups; each group of letters is bound into a booklet and all three booklets are placed in a custom-made album. Two of the booklets of letters are mounted to the leaves of the album (the last leaf of each of them is set in thick paper, with a "window" displaying both sides of the letter). The third booklet of letters is placed in a transparent plastic pocket. Alongside the letters, the album contains a short biography of Charles Cochon de Lapparent (a typewritten English leaf) and a print depicting the grand attack on Valenciennes, France, in 1793. The album is hardbound with a gilt inscription on its front. A paper label with information about the letters was mounted on the inside front binding.
The French politician Charles Cochon de Lapparent (1750-1825) held senior positions in the French Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly) and the Comité de Salut Public (Committee for the Public's Safety) and served as the Minister of Police of France during the years 1796-1797 (for additional information about him, see enclosed biography).
16 letters (17 handwritten leaves), approx. 23.5 cm. Album: 39.5 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Fold lines and creases. Minor blemishes.
Enclosed: English translations of the letters.
Provenance:
1. Purchased at the Ader-Picard-Tajan Auction House, 1987.
2. Autograph collection of Dr. Max Thoreck, USA.
3. A private Collection, New York.
Official letters containing opinions, requests and instructions about issues of law and punishment and various administrative issues under the responsibility of the French Minister of Police Charles Cochon de Lapparent. The letters refer, among other things, to the law requiring the locking of doors during the night and the punishment for breaking the law, the entrance of immigrants to France, and more.
The most interesting letter deals with a request by the Jews of Paris to open a synagogue in an apartment in 29 rue des Blancs-Manteaux. The letter, from December 1796, states that the opening of the synagogue should be permitted and notes that the Jews' freedom of religion is anchored in the French constitution.
The letters were divided into three groups; each group of letters is bound into a booklet and all three booklets are placed in a custom-made album. Two of the booklets of letters are mounted to the leaves of the album (the last leaf of each of them is set in thick paper, with a "window" displaying both sides of the letter). The third booklet of letters is placed in a transparent plastic pocket. Alongside the letters, the album contains a short biography of Charles Cochon de Lapparent (a typewritten English leaf) and a print depicting the grand attack on Valenciennes, France, in 1793. The album is hardbound with a gilt inscription on its front. A paper label with information about the letters was mounted on the inside front binding.
The French politician Charles Cochon de Lapparent (1750-1825) held senior positions in the French Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly) and the Comité de Salut Public (Committee for the Public's Safety) and served as the Minister of Police of France during the years 1796-1797 (for additional information about him, see enclosed biography).
16 letters (17 handwritten leaves), approx. 23.5 cm. Album: 39.5 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Fold lines and creases. Minor blemishes.
Enclosed: English translations of the letters.
Provenance:
1. Purchased at the Ader-Picard-Tajan Auction House, 1987.
2. Autograph collection of Dr. Max Thoreck, USA.
3. A private Collection, New York.
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Jewish Communities
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Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $800
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Zeitung [Newspaper] / Beschreibung, [by Abraham Spire. Metz, 1789-1790]. German in Hebrew characters.
A volume gathering sixteen issues of the newspaper "Zeitung" which reviews the events of the French Revolution and an essay titled "Beschreibung" dealing with the Revolution and the events that preceded it. The newspaper and the essay were written and published simultaneously by the Jewish printer Abraham Spire, the grandson of Moise May, the first Jewish printer in Metz.
The "Zeitung" newspaper was published between November 1789 and March 1790 and reviewed the main daily events. The issues were dated according to the weekly Torah portions (Parashot HaShavu'ah). The composition "Beschreibung", which was meant to complement the "Zeitung", dealt with the period between 1780 to 1789 – the "Estates General of 1789", the "National Assembly" and the attack on the Bastille. Among other things, it describes the struggle for equal rights of the Jews of Alsace-Lorraine.
Before us are 16 of the 20 issues of the "Zeitung" (most of them one leaf long) and most of the composition "Beschreibung" (without several leaves at its beginning and end).
[19] leaves ("Zeitung"); [4] leaves; 7-108 pp. (mispagination. pp. 1-6 and 109-110 are missing). 15 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Folds and creases in the corners of the leaves. Trimmed margins, with minor damage the text or page numbers (on the top of several of the leaves). Ink and pen scribbles on the binding. Blemishes to binding.
Rare. Only a few copies of the two complete publications are known of.
A volume gathering sixteen issues of the newspaper "Zeitung" which reviews the events of the French Revolution and an essay titled "Beschreibung" dealing with the Revolution and the events that preceded it. The newspaper and the essay were written and published simultaneously by the Jewish printer Abraham Spire, the grandson of Moise May, the first Jewish printer in Metz.
The "Zeitung" newspaper was published between November 1789 and March 1790 and reviewed the main daily events. The issues were dated according to the weekly Torah portions (Parashot HaShavu'ah). The composition "Beschreibung", which was meant to complement the "Zeitung", dealt with the period between 1780 to 1789 – the "Estates General of 1789", the "National Assembly" and the attack on the Bastille. Among other things, it describes the struggle for equal rights of the Jews of Alsace-Lorraine.
Before us are 16 of the 20 issues of the "Zeitung" (most of them one leaf long) and most of the composition "Beschreibung" (without several leaves at its beginning and end).
[19] leaves ("Zeitung"); [4] leaves; 7-108 pp. (mispagination. pp. 1-6 and 109-110 are missing). 15 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Folds and creases in the corners of the leaves. Trimmed margins, with minor damage the text or page numbers (on the top of several of the leaves). Ink and pen scribbles on the binding. Blemishes to binding.
Rare. Only a few copies of the two complete publications are known of.
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Jewish Communities
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $300
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"L'augusto anniversario della nascita di S. M. Napoleone il Grande" / " Lamenazeach Shir Mizmor…", a poem for Napoleon Bonaparte's Birthday, by Buonaventura Modena. "Printed at the Imperial Printing Press", 1806. Hebrew and Italian on facing pages.
An eight-verse poem in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday, recited in a synagogue in Paris. The author, Buonaventura Modena, was a rabbi of the Modena community in Italy and a member of The Grand Sanhedrin of Paris (a gathering of Jewish rabbis and leaders in France, convened by Napoleon Bonaparte).
9, [1] pp, 21 cm. Uneven edges. Good condition. Stains to the margins of the leaves (most of them minor). Blank paper cover.
An eight-verse poem in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday, recited in a synagogue in Paris. The author, Buonaventura Modena, was a rabbi of the Modena community in Italy and a member of The Grand Sanhedrin of Paris (a gathering of Jewish rabbis and leaders in France, convened by Napoleon Bonaparte).
9, [1] pp, 21 cm. Uneven edges. Good condition. Stains to the margins of the leaves (most of them minor). Blank paper cover.
Category
Jewish Communities
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $700
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"Shir Chanukat Habayit" (Hebrew) / Gottesdienstlicher Vortrag bei der Einweihungsfeier einer Synagoge, by Benjamin Szold. Pressburg: Vormals Schmid'schen Buchdruckerei, 1854. German and some Hebrew.
A sermon for the inauguration ceremony of a synagogue, by rabbi and scholar Benjamin Szold (1829-1902). Szold studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva and at the Rabbinical Seminary in Breslau. In 1859, he immigrated to the USA and served as the rabbi of the "Ohev Shalom" community of Baltimore, Maryland, until his death. His eldest daughter was the social activist and educator Henrietta Szold.
36 pp, approx. 21.5 cm. good condition. A few stains. Minor creases. Tiny tears along the edges of the leaves. Stains and small tears along the edges of the cover.
Not in OCLC.
A sermon for the inauguration ceremony of a synagogue, by rabbi and scholar Benjamin Szold (1829-1902). Szold studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva and at the Rabbinical Seminary in Breslau. In 1859, he immigrated to the USA and served as the rabbi of the "Ohev Shalom" community of Baltimore, Maryland, until his death. His eldest daughter was the social activist and educator Henrietta Szold.
36 pp, approx. 21.5 cm. good condition. A few stains. Minor creases. Tiny tears along the edges of the leaves. Stains and small tears along the edges of the cover.
Not in OCLC.
Category
Jewish Communities
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $2,800
Sold for: $4,250
Including buyer's premium
Broadside for teaching the Hebrew alphabet, with blessings, verses of prayer and a chapter of Psalms. Frankfurt an der Oder, [1794].
Printed in the center of the broadside are the letters of the Hebrew alphabet with various diacritical marks. Printed around them, in frames, are the verses and blessings which open the morning prayer, several other blessings, Psalms 23 and words of praise for the neat typeface, meant to make the study easier for children (Yiddish). The leaf is decorated with woodcuts depicting Moses and Aaron.
In most cases, due to their constant use, these broadsides did not survive and the few that did survive are mostly torn and stained (see enclosed letter from the British Museum of London).
Approx. 35X42 cm. Good condition. Several stains. Pinhole in the upper part of the leaf. Vertical fold line. Ink corrosion in the margin.
Printed in the center of the broadside are the letters of the Hebrew alphabet with various diacritical marks. Printed around them, in frames, are the verses and blessings which open the morning prayer, several other blessings, Psalms 23 and words of praise for the neat typeface, meant to make the study easier for children (Yiddish). The leaf is decorated with woodcuts depicting Moses and Aaron.
In most cases, due to their constant use, these broadsides did not survive and the few that did survive are mostly torn and stained (see enclosed letter from the British Museum of London).
Approx. 35X42 cm. Good condition. Several stains. Pinhole in the upper part of the leaf. Vertical fold line. Ink corrosion in the margin.
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