Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
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![Liste der öst. Ung. Unterthanen im Saffed [List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed], handwritten notebook (12 wri](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/19_1.jpg "\"List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed\" – Safed, 1885 – Signa")
![Liste der öst. Ung. Unterthanen im Saffed [List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed], handwritten notebook (12 wri](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/19_2.jpg "\"List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed\" – Safed, 1885 – Signa")
Liste der öst. Ung. Unterthanen im Saffed [List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed], handwritten notebook (12 written pages). Safed, May 29, 1885. German.
Booklet containing a list of 147 Jewish subjects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, residents of Safed during the late 19th century. The last page is stamped with an official stamp of the "Austria Kollel" ("Kollel Österreich") in Safed, and bears signatures and stamps (in Hebrew and Latin letters) of three of the heads of the Kollel: "M.[Moshe] Zeiger Charag in Safeth" (1824-1909), representative of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager of Vizhnitz in the Kollel, grandfather of the artist Yosef Zvi Geiger (1870-1944); Berisch Lüstman, representative of Lviv's Jews in the Kollel; and Jacub Fridfertig, representative of the "Vizhnitz Kollel" in the "Austria Kollel."
Underneath appears an official inked stamp of the Austro-Hungarian consular agency in Safed, alongside the handwritten signature of the consular agent, Josef Miklasiewicz (1825-1907.)
[12] written pages (+ [4] blank pages), 29 cm. Good condition. Vertical fold line. Minor marginal tears. Stains and inscription to blank pages.
1. Small broadside announcing the results of the elections for the "Eretz Israeli Assembly" ("HaKenessia HaEretz-Yisraelit") (1903). Resembling a parliament, the "Eretz Israeli Assembly" was led by Menachem Ussishkin, challenging Herzl and the Zionist congress; the organization was disbanded after two years of activity.
2-3. Regulations leaflet and an official letter by the "First Assembly of Representatives" (1920): • A letter sent to the Tachkemoni school, on behalf of the central elections committee in Jaffa, stressing the importance of the coming elections. Printed; bearing a "Zion" postage stamp. • "Regulations for the Gatherings of the Assembly of Representatives of the Jews of Palestine", a leaflet containing 36 clauses, regulating the activity of the Assembly (Luncz Press, ca. 1920.)
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Fold lines, stains and creases. Minor marginal tears. Tear along horizontal fold line of the broadside (item 1).
• Roughly 45 invitations and notices – most of them printed and signed by the secretaries and directors of the Jewish National Council – sent to Rabbi Moshe HaMeiri Ostrovsky, representative of the Mizrachi organization: notice of an appointment with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, an urgent invitation to a meeting with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, invitations to meetings regarding issues of security in the moshavot, aliyah and absorption, establishment of the Jewish Agency, and more. Among the signatories: Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and David Yellin.
• Delegate's card (no. 8) for the First Assembly of Representatives of the Jews in Palestine, issued to Rabbi Ostrovsky. Marked with the inked stamps of the directorate of the Jewish National Council (David Yellin, Dr. Jacob Thon, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi), with discount coupons for the purchase of train tickets.
• "Rules and Regulations for the Elections to the Assembly of Representatives of the Jews in Palestine, " printed broadside issued in time for the first elections held (in 1920) by the Jewish Yishuv. Tel Aviv: Ahdut Press, [ca. 1920]. With information regarding the right to vote, the right to submit candidacy, special privileges for soldiers of the Jewish Legion, and more.
• "Circular to the Haredi Communities in Palestine!", printed broadside issued by the "Council of Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] Delegates" – an announcement of their impending withdrawal from the Jewish National Council. Nisan, 5682 [1922].
• Entrance ticket to the "Founding Assembly" in Jaffa (June 17, 1918), hand signed by Dr. Jacob Thon (the Founding Assembly gathered three times in the course of the First World War, and was the Palestine Jewish community's representative body in dealings with the British. Following its third meeting, the "Assembly of Representatives" was established).
• And more.
Approx. 60 items. Size and condition vary.
Milon HaLashon Ha-Ivrit BaZman Hazeh, Hibro Eliezer Ben Yehuda [Dictionary of the Hebrew Language of This Time, by Eliezer Ben Yehuda] Booklets "Gimel" and "Daled" (out of the six booklets printed in this edition). Jerusalem: Hashkafah, [ca. 1902]. Hebrew.
Between 1900 and 1905, Eliezer Ben Yehuda printed a series of thin booklets that were sold to subscribers. These booklets represent his early attempts of publishing a full unabridged dictionary of the Hebrew language. These attempts did not last long; in the end, only six such booklets were actually printed, which were together titled "Mahadura Kama" ("First Edition").
These are two of the six booklets. They contain entries for words beginning with the Hebrew letters "aleph-vav-bet" through "aleph-vav-het" (Booklet "Gimel") and "aleph-het" through "aleph-yud-nun" (Booklet "Daled"). With original covers, printed in Hebrew and French. A printed (Hebrew) note appears at the beginning of Booklet "Gimel": "The present booklet has been so delayed on account of my journey to Russia on business related to the dictionary."
Booklet "Gimel": 79-122 pp., 26.5 cm. Booklet "Daled": 123-166 pp., 27.5 cm. (Two additional leaves appear at the beginning of the scanned copy of Booklet "Daled" kept in the National Library of Israel: pp. 23-26 of the Introduction.) Good-fair condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. Tears (mostly minor) to edges. Cover and a number of other leaves detached in Booklet "Daled"; several leaves uncut at top edges. Open tears and pinholes to edges of covers. Strip of paper to edge of one cover. Missing spines.
![Die Boden- und Düngungsverhältnisse in Palästina [The Soil- and Fertilization Conditions in Palestine], by Fritz Keller. J](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/23.jpg "\"The Soil- and Fertilization Conditions in Palestine\" – Agricultural G")
Agricultural guidebook concerning the soil conditions and fertilization requirements in Palestine, by the agronomist Fritz Keller – a member of the German Templer Society, and the founder of an agricultural school in the Templer colony Wilhelma. Through the school, as well as through this guidebook, Keller aspired to introduce modern, scientifically based, agricultural methods, and thus strengthen the local industry and the Christian settlement project in Palestine.
17 pp., 18 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Minor creases. Several minor tears to edges (open tear to edge of first leaf). First and last page partially stuck to cover. Tear along spine. Piece of paper pasted to upper spine. Ex-library copy – inked stamps to front cover and several leaves, sticker to cover, pen notations to inner front cover and first page.
Rare. Not in NLI; One copy in OCLC.
1. "Protocol of a Meeting of the council of the Federation of the Jewish Colonies, Judea,
with the participation of members of the leadership of the Jewish National Council." [1922].
Seven-page document (mimeograph copy of typewritten original), ending with a note handwritten and signed by Menashe Meirovitch.
7 ff., 27.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Fold lines. Stains. Tears, including open tears, and punch holes (with damage to text). Lengthy tear to last sheet (with minor damage to handwritten note by Meirovitch).
2-6. Five letters from Menashe Meirovitch, Chairman of the Federation of the Jewish Colonies, Judea, to the council of the moshava Be'er Ya'akov. Handwritten and printed letters, all hand signed by Meirovitch. Four letters dated 1922.
Letters dealing with administrative matters, including calls to attend a meeting of the council, to support the Federation, and to cooperate with collective associations; concerning the growing and packaging of tobacco; and more.
[5] ff., size and condition vary. Fold lines. Stains. Tears and punch holes, with damage to text.
7. Handwritten letter from the council of the moshava Be'er Ya'akov to the chief secretary of the Farmers' Federation, Tel Aviv, December 1947.
The letter addresses the issue of the severing of the connection between the moshava Be'er Ya'akov and Tel Aviv, and the difficulties in getting to Rishon LeZion from the moshava on account of the security situation.
[1] f., 30.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Punch holes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
1-3. Three postcards from Heinrich Loewe to his children (Hebrew; addresses in square script, partly with diacritics). One postcard with greetings from two "halutzim" from the Moshava Rehovot (published by "Y. Ben-Dov of Bezalel, " with a picture of the moshava), and another postcard with an added letter in German, addressed to his wife (and with a portrait picture of Loewe). Mailed from Berlin, Memel, and Port Said, second and third decades of the 20th century.
4. Russian undivided postcard: letter sent by the "halutz" David Yizre'eli (Rubin) from Katerynoslav to the Moshava Menahemia in 1905 with a promise to immigrate to Palestine (Yizre’eli did indeed arrive in Menahemia that same year, and began working in the orchards alongside co-worker David Grün, who later changed his name to David Ben-Gurion).
5-10. Six postcards sent by immigrants and Zionist activists (some with pictures from Palestine and some with pictures of the senders); Jaffa, the Moshava Kinneret, Kovno (Kaunas), Basel, and other places; including one official postcard from the 22nd Zionist Congress (Basel, 1946).
Approx. 9X14 cm. Condition varies. Stains, some abrasions, and minor blemishes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
![Palästina Wirtschaftsatlas [Economic Atlas of Palestine] edited by Davis Trietsch. "Second, expanded edition".](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/26_1.jpg "\"Economic Atlas of Palestine\" – Davis Trietsch – Berlin, 1926 – Origin")
![Palästina Wirtschaftsatlas [Economic Atlas of Palestine] edited by Davis Trietsch. "Second, expanded edition".](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/26_2.jpg "\"Economic Atlas of Palestine\" – Davis Trietsch – Berlin, 1926 – Origin")
![Palästina Wirtschaftsatlas [Economic Atlas of Palestine] edited by Davis Trietsch. "Second, expanded edition".](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/26_3.jpg "\"Economic Atlas of Palestine\" – Davis Trietsch – Berlin, 1926 – Origin")
Palästina Wirtschaftsatlas [Economic Atlas of Palestine] edited by Davis Trietsch. "Second, expanded edition". Berlin: Orient, [1926]. German.
Thirty color-printed plates (four of them folding) comprising a variety of maps and charts providing much information about Palestine and its Jewish population: the historical borders of Palestine, concentration of population, population density and growth, employment, immigration, industry, import and export, and more. Complete copy (with list of plates), in the original portfolio.
Nine of the plates were also included in Trietsch's "Atlas of the Jewish World" (see next lot).
David (Davis) Trietsch (1870-1935), editor, writer and Zionist activist, born in Germany, member of the Zionist General Council and of the democratic faction in the World Zionist Organization (an oppositional faction in the Zionist Organization which introduced an alternative to Herzl's ideas). He was coeditor of the journals Ost und West and Palästina, authored the annual Palästina Handbuch and was one of the founders of the Jüdischer Verlag publishing house.
Trietsch dedicated a considerable part of his time to the question of Jewish settlement. In the 1890s, he conceived the idea of settling Jews in Cyprus, and subsequently promoted the settlement in Cyprus as an alternative to the 1903 Uganda Scheme (a proposal he vehemently opposed). Trietsch later supported the Jewish emigration to Palestine, and suggested planned commercial and industrial development of the country and the establishment of garden cities. This atlas was published as part of his efforts to promote the settlement in Palestine. Trietsch himself settled in Palestine in 1932.
[1] f. (list of plates), [30] loose plates. Approx. 25X38 cm to 38X75 cm. Good condition. Marginal creases. Minor stains. Minor tears to edges of some plates. Stains and tears to portfolio.
![Atlas der jüdischen Welt [Atlas of the Jewish World] edited by Davis Trietsch. Berlin: Orient, [1926]. German.
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![Atlas der jüdischen Welt [Atlas of the Jewish World] edited by Davis Trietsch. Berlin: Orient, [1926]. German.
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![Atlas der jüdischen Welt [Atlas of the Jewish World] edited by Davis Trietsch. Berlin: Orient, [1926]. German.
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![Atlas der jüdischen Welt [Atlas of the Jewish World] edited by Davis Trietsch. Berlin: Orient, [1926]. German.
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![Atlas der jüdischen Welt [Atlas of the Jewish World] edited by Davis Trietsch. Berlin: Orient, [1926]. German.
Sixteen co](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/27_5.jpg "Davis Trietsch – The Rare \"Atlas of the Jewish World\" – Berlin, 1926 –")
Atlas der jüdischen Welt [Atlas of the Jewish World] edited by Davis Trietsch. Berlin: Orient, [1926]. German.
Sixteen color-printed plates (three of them folding) comprising maps, charts and tables providing much information about the Jewish settlement in Palestine and the Jewish population worldwide (particularly in the United States, the British Empire and Latvia).
Complete copy (with list of plates), in the original portfolio.
Rare. Only one copy listed in OCLC (copy with 15 plates; date given in listing – 1925).
[1] f. (list of plates), [16] loose plates. Approx. 25X38 cm to 38X75 cm. Good condition. Minor marginal creases. Minor marginal tears to one plate. Stains to portfolio; minor tears to spine.
• Additional plate enclosed: partial proof print, in black, of the map showing the Jewish settlement in Palestine (German inscription on top). The complete map, printed in black and red, is included in this atlas (and in Trietsch's "Economic Atlas of Palestine"; see previous item).
72X41 cm. Fold lines. Minor stains and blemishes.
David (Davis) Trietsch (1870-1935), editor, writer and Zionist activist, born in Germany, member of the Zionist General Council and of the democratic faction in the World Zionist Organization (an oppositional faction in the Zionist Organization which introduced an alternative to Herzl's ideas). He was coeditor of the journals Ost und West and Palästina, authored the annual Palästina Handbuch and was one of the founders of the Jüdischer Verlag publishing house.
Trietsch dedicated a considerable part of his time to the question of Jewish settlement. In the 1890s, he conceived the idea of settling Jews in Cyprus, and subsequently promoted the settlement in Cyprus as an alternative to the 1903 Uganda Scheme (a proposal he vehemently opposed). Trietsch later supported the Jewish emigration to Palestine, and suggested planned commercial and industrial development of the country and the establishment of garden cities. He himself settled in Palestine in 1932.
Three booklets with maps of Tel Aviv:
1-2. "Tel-Aviv and Surroundings, " two booklets with the map of Tel Aviv prepared by architect Leo Sheinfeld – the "Sheinfeld Map" – which is considered to be the first map of the city after it became an autonomous municipality (with township status). Tel Aviv: Ittin-Shoshani, 1924 (maps dated 1923/1924.) Hebrew, Yiddish, German and English.
In the early 1920s, the British authorities ordered the separation of Tel Aviv from Jaffa, and Tel Aviv was granted autonomous municipal jurisdiction (township status). The boundary line between Tel Aviv and Jaffa crossed from Shlush st. to the beach, and so, Neve Tzedek, Ohel Moshe, Achva, Machane-Yehuda, Machaneh-Yosef, and additional neighborhoods, were annexed to Tel Aviv. The boundaries of the municipal jurisdiction of Tel Aviv were finalized in 1923.
The present booklets feature two different versions of the Sheinfeld map (prepared at the request of the city's engineer, Yehuda Magidovitch); the maps mark the neighborhoods, lots and streets within the municipal boundaries of Tel Aviv. The maps (folding plates) slightly differ from one another in color, design, and marked boundaries of several lots. One map is dated 1923, and the other 1924. The booklets include short essays on the city's history, a review of local businesses and pictures of important buildings.
Booklet I: 16, 8 pp. (text in Hebrew, Yiddish and English) + folding map.
Booklet II: 10, 14 pp. (text in Hebrew, German and English) + folding map.
Booklets: 24 cm. Maps: 65X40 cm. Maps in overall good condition – creases and some stains to one of the maps; marginal tear to both maps. Booklets in fair-good condition: stains, including dampstains. Tears to covers and edges of several leaves. Detached cover and leaves in booklet II. Spine of booklet I reinforced with paper. Pen inscriptions, inked stamps and stickers.
3. "Special addition to Yoman Kol Tel Aviv". Tel Aviv: HaTechiyah, [1935]. Hebrew.
An addition to "Yoman Kol Tel Aviv" (Tel Aviv directory), printed on the event of the second Maccabiah. The booklet includes a schematic folding map of the city, rich information about the Maccabiah and various advertisements.
13, [3] pp. + folding map. Booklet: 16.5 cm; map: 46X16.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Inked stamps on cover. Some leaves unopened.
![Madrich Sach-Rachok [Telephone Guide], published by the "Palestine Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones." Jerusalem: Je](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/29.jpg "Early Palestine Telephone Directory – Jerusalem, 1926 – Rare")
One of the first telephone directories to have been published in Mandatory Palestine. The directory includes hundreds of telephone numbers of government ministries and organizations, banks, businesses and private individuals, in various cities across the country – from Metula in the north to Beersheba in the south.
The introduction comprises rules and instructions for proper use of the telephone device; 20 pages at the end of the directory detail various services offered by the "Palestine Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones, " and list the tariffs of post, telegraph and telephone services.
Many pages of the directory feature advertisements by businesses across the country.
The section of the directory devoted to Jerusalem is headed by the telephone numbers of the British High Commissioner's secretary and staff, followed by the numbers of various governmental ministries.
The directory lists telephone numbers of Zionist leaders and prominent personalities in Mandatory Palestine, including: Meir Dizengoff, Menachem Ussishkin, Judah Leib Gordon, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Daniel Auster, Mordechai Eliash, Nasib Abacrius Bey, and others.
Inked stamps of Yosef Zvi Geiger (1870-1944) of Safed. Ownership inscription of Tobias Ungar of Safed (English) [presumably, rabbi Tuvia Ungar, descendant of rabbi Moshe Ungar (5580- 5658), son-in-law of the "Divrei Chaim" of Sanz, owner of the "Mobiloil" company in Safed.]
VI-XXVI, 37-43, [2], 28-35, [2], 18-27, [2], 16, [1], V, [1] pp., 27.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes. Inscriptions and stamps. Cover slightly worn; minor tears to spine.
Rare. Directory not listed in OCLC, nor in the NLI catalogue.
1. "Krovetz LePurim 5694 – Official Newspaper of the Purim Celebration Committee, " edited by Aharon Ze'ev Ben Yishai. 1934. Second Year.
Booklet published on the occasion of the Purim celebrations in Tel Aviv. It contains practical information, as well as holiday poems, prose pieces, articles, jokes, etc.
The booklet's title "Krovetz" is borrowed from the name of a traditional piyyut, recited by some Ashkenazi communities in the Shacharit prayer of Purim.
Front cover features a color illustration of a dancing Purim mask, spinning gragers.
10, [3], 12-54, [2] pp. (including cover), approx. 33 cm. Good condition. Minor creases and stains (mainly to cover). Tears to spine.
2. Advertising poster for the annual "Adloyada" parade in Tel Aviv. [Tel Aviv:] Strod, 1935.
Poster in bright red and yellow, depicting a Purim mask, a grager and a flag, resembling the cover design of the above-mentioned "Krovetz."
67X97 cm. Good-fair condition. Fold lines. Stains. Tears (some open), restored. Poster mounted on thin, acid-free paper.