Auction 77 - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial
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Auction 77 - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial
March 15, 2021
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Babylonian Talmud. Shanghai, 1942-1946. Published by students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai.
Complete set of the Babylonian Talmud, printed in Shanghai between 1942 and 1946 by students of the Mir yeshiva who escaped to the Far East during the Holocaust.
Reduced photocopy edition of the Romm Vilna Talmud.
19 volumes. Approx. 26 cm. Brittle paper in approx. half the volumes. Overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains in one volume. Marginal wear and tears to some leaves. Open tear to one leaf in Bava Metzia volume, affecting text. Stamps and handwritten ownership inscriptions. New, matching bindings.
Tractate Yevamot was not printed in Shanghai.
Complete set of the Babylonian Talmud, printed in Shanghai between 1942 and 1946 by students of the Mir yeshiva who escaped to the Far East during the Holocaust.
Reduced photocopy edition of the Romm Vilna Talmud.
19 volumes. Approx. 26 cm. Brittle paper in approx. half the volumes. Overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains in one volume. Marginal wear and tears to some leaves. Open tear to one leaf in Bava Metzia volume, affecting text. Stamps and handwritten ownership inscriptions. New, matching bindings.
Tractate Yevamot was not printed in Shanghai.
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The Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah
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Auction 77 - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial
March 15, 2021
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $3,750
Including buyer's premium
Babylonian Talmud – complete set. Munich-Heidelberg, 1948. "Published by the Union of Rabbis in the American Occupation Zone in Germany".
After WWII, the demand for Talmud and holy books by surviving Jews congregated in the DP camps exceeded the few copies that were available for the refugees. From 1946, the "Union of Rabbis" in Germany, with the assistance of the American army and the JDC began to print the Talmud for survivors. This is the first complete Talmud edition printed after the Holocaust.
Two title pages in each volume. The first title page was especially designed to commemorate the printing of the Talmud on the scorched soil of Germany – at the top is an illustration of a Jewish town; and at the bottom is an illustration of barbed wire fences and a labor camp.
19 volumes. Approx. 39 cm. High-quality paper in most volumes; dry paper in several volumes. Good condition. A few stains. Glosses in several volumes. Original front and back boards, with new leather spines (the books were rebound). Minor damage and wear to edges and corners of original boards.
After WWII, the demand for Talmud and holy books by surviving Jews congregated in the DP camps exceeded the few copies that were available for the refugees. From 1946, the "Union of Rabbis" in Germany, with the assistance of the American army and the JDC began to print the Talmud for survivors. This is the first complete Talmud edition printed after the Holocaust.
Two title pages in each volume. The first title page was especially designed to commemorate the printing of the Talmud on the scorched soil of Germany – at the top is an illustration of a Jewish town; and at the bottom is an illustration of barbed wire fences and a labor camp.
19 volumes. Approx. 39 cm. High-quality paper in most volumes; dry paper in several volumes. Good condition. A few stains. Glosses in several volumes. Original front and back boards, with new leather spines (the books were rebound). Minor damage and wear to edges and corners of original boards.
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The Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah
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Auction 77 - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial
March 15, 2021
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
A small presentation Bible given to the head of the Judenrat of the Lodz Ghetto, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, mounted with a silver plaque made by a Jewish silversmith in the ghetto. Lodz Ghetto, December 1941.
An incomplete copy of the Bible (Berlin: Daniel Ernst Jablonski, 1710), presumably re-bound in the ghetto and presented to Rumkowski. A silver plaque mounted on the front board, with an engraved dedication: "Exalted President C.M.R. [Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski], Bible, Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 8th Tevet 5702 [December 1941]". Engraved above the dedication are two Stars of David and a seven-branched menorah, whose candles send beams of light to the words "Exalted President". The dedication and illustration are surrounded by a narrow olive branch border, the lower left corner imitating a fold. Additional handwritten dedication on front endpaper: "As an eternal keepsake, from Tzvi Peretz".
Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski (1877-1944) headed the Judenrat of the Lodz Ghetto throughout its entire existence. Rumkowski is considered one of the most controversial figures in the history of the Holocaust and as the head of the ghetto instituted an extreme personality cult. Among his roles, Rumkowski was responsible for providing lists of people to be sent to the extermination camps. In 1944, he was sent with the last inmates of the ghetto to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where he was murdered, presumably, that same day.
The Yad VaShem collection of artifacts contains several unique silver artifacts made by Jewish silversmiths in the Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust, some of which were gifted to Rumkowski.
Incomplete copy of the Bible, missing the books Bereshit, Devarim and Yeshaya. Several other leaves are missing and several leaves are bound out of order. The book was re-bound in a cloth-covered binding, with a shoelace bookmark. Approx. 10.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor damage. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Open tears to several leaves (repaired with tape and paper). Ownership inscription on the last leaf of Malachi (blank).
An incomplete copy of the Bible (Berlin: Daniel Ernst Jablonski, 1710), presumably re-bound in the ghetto and presented to Rumkowski. A silver plaque mounted on the front board, with an engraved dedication: "Exalted President C.M.R. [Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski], Bible, Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 8th Tevet 5702 [December 1941]". Engraved above the dedication are two Stars of David and a seven-branched menorah, whose candles send beams of light to the words "Exalted President". The dedication and illustration are surrounded by a narrow olive branch border, the lower left corner imitating a fold. Additional handwritten dedication on front endpaper: "As an eternal keepsake, from Tzvi Peretz".
Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski (1877-1944) headed the Judenrat of the Lodz Ghetto throughout its entire existence. Rumkowski is considered one of the most controversial figures in the history of the Holocaust and as the head of the ghetto instituted an extreme personality cult. Among his roles, Rumkowski was responsible for providing lists of people to be sent to the extermination camps. In 1944, he was sent with the last inmates of the ghetto to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where he was murdered, presumably, that same day.
The Yad VaShem collection of artifacts contains several unique silver artifacts made by Jewish silversmiths in the Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust, some of which were gifted to Rumkowski.
Incomplete copy of the Bible, missing the books Bereshit, Devarim and Yeshaya. Several other leaves are missing and several leaves are bound out of order. The book was re-bound in a cloth-covered binding, with a shoelace bookmark. Approx. 10.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor damage. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Open tears to several leaves (repaired with tape and paper). Ownership inscription on the last leaf of Malachi (blank).
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