Illustrated Esther scroll. [Eretz Israel, ca. mid-20th century].
Ink on thin parchment. Sephardic Stam script (unskilled). 23 columns. With dozens of naive illustrations, in watercolor (and other media), depicting various scenes from the Megillah narrative and the history of the Jewish people. The illustrations were added after the Megillah was penned, above and below the columns, in the intercolumnar spaces and in the column describing the hanging of the ten sons of Haman.
Scroll height: approx. 24.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Tears and wear. Stains.

"Abraham binding his son Isaac", color lithograph by Moshe ben Yitzchak [Shah] Mizrachi [Tehrani]. Jerusalem, [1902].
A large lithograph, designed as a domed structure divided into two horizontal sections, with a different scene in each, accompanied by captions drawn from the Bible and the Midrash. Seen in the lower section are Abraham with "a knife in his hand and saying to the two lads stay here with the donkey", Isaac with "the wood on his shoulder and the fire in his hand", the two lads and the donkey. Seen in the upper section is Isaac bound on the altar and Abraham raising the knife to slaughter him. Above them, an angel grasps the knife in one hand and points at the ram, caught in a rose bush. Around the dome appears the verse "…Do not stretch forth your hand to the lad, nor do the slightest thing to him…". The border reads "Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac / and the binding of Yitzchak on behalf of his descendants may You remember it today with compassion" and the year. Signed in the plate, within a medallion, at the bottom left corner: "Moshe son of Yitzchak Tehrani, resident of Jerusalem".
47.5X60.5 cm. Fair-poor condition. Closed and open tears with damage to the print, most reinforced with large pieces of paper pasted to verso. Many creases. Stains. Pieces of tape on verso. Some pieces of paper pasted to margins on recto.

A family photograph of the Slonim family of Hebron and Jaffa. [ca. 1910-1915].
Presumably taken by photographer Shlomo Narinsky.
Mounted on cardboard, blind-stamped: "Tzalmon photography studio, Jaffa".
Seen in the photograph: R. Mordechai Duber Slonim of Hebron; his son, R. Shneur Zalman Slonim, Chabad rabbi of Jaffa; and his grandson, R. Menachem Mendel Shmuel Slonim of Jaffa.
Photograph: 12X17 cm. Mount: 25X20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears and damage to mount.

Archive of hundreds of family photographs of the Meyer and Auerbach families, relatives of the father and mother of R. Yissachar Meyer, dean of Yeshivat HaNegev. Germany and Eretz Israel, [late 19th century – mid-20th century (and several more recent photographs)]
Some 500 photographs documenting the history of both families, beginning from the late 19th century in Germany, until their immigration to Eretz Israel and their lives there in the mid-20th century. The photographs depict R. Yissachar Meyer as a child in Germany, as a boy and young man in Eretz Yisrael; his father, Yaakov Meyer; his mother, Leah Meyer née Auerbach; his sisters Yehudit, Shoshana and Ayala Meyer; his grandfathers and grandmothers, including Aharon and Helen (Hindche) Auerbach from Hamburg, R. Yissachar Seligmann and Mathilda Meyer from Ronsburg, his great-grandparents, Meyer and Yittel Meyer née Selig; and many other family members; photographs of the tombstones of family members; photographs and postcards documenting the synagogue in Regensburg, where his grandfather R. Yissachar Seligmann Meyer served as rabbi, and more.
Yaakov Meyer, father of R. Yissachar Meyer, emigrated from Germany to Eretz Israel before his family, with the intent of setting himself up and bringing his family over shortly thereafter. During his stay in Eretz Israel, he took ill and was hospitalized in Egypt, where he passed away. Leah Meyer and her four children immigrated to Eretz Israel via Amsterdam after his passing, in 1938, and settled in Petach Tikva.
R. Yissachar Meyer (1927-2010), founder and dean of Yeshivat HaNegev in Netivot. Born in Hamburg, he immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1938 together with his three sisters. He began studying in the Lomzha yeshiva in 1941, and was later one of the first group of students in the Ponovezh yeshiva. Upon the instructions of his teacher, R. Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, he was sent to Casablanca, where he founded a yeshiva for higher studies and an Orthodox seminary for girls. After serving as lecturer in the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Kfar HaRoeh, he moved to Netivot in the early 1960s, with a group of Dati-Leumi students, with whom he founded the Azata yeshiva, formally known as Yeshivat HaNegev. Within a few years, the yeshiva grew and numbered some two hundred students. A large community later developed in Netivot, led by R. Yissachar Meyer, and schools were established for boys and girls. In his final years, R. Yissachar Meyer and his disciples founded branches of the yeshiva in Sderot and Moshav Zru'a, around which communities of G-d fearing, Torah Jews developed.
Many photographs have handwritten captions on the verso, in Hebrew or German. Most photographs are pasted to album leaves and some have handwritten captions and dates in German on the leaves. A few of the photographs which were taken or reprinted in Eretz Israel bear photographers' stamps, including "Photo Frankfurter" and "Tzalmaniah L. Eisenberg" in Petach Tikva and "Photo Aharonsohn Brothers" in Bnei Brak. Some of the photographs from Germany also bear photographers' stamps.
Size and condition vary. Overall fair condition. Damage, creases, tears and stains to many photographs.
Enclosed: postcard sent by R. Yissachar Meyer to his family from Safed, during his stay in the Margalit guesthouse. 1947. German.