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
Large Collection of Posters – Jerusalem, Ca. 1888-1948
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Huge assorted collection of printed posters relating to Eretz Israel and various public affairs, printed in Jerusalem ca. 1888-1948.
The posters include:
1. Beit Yaakov Lechu VeNelchah – appeal to support Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov yeshiva, with printed signatures of five treasurers and rabbis of the yeshiva. [Jerusalem, ca. 1888]. Yiddish.
Not recorded by Sh. Halevy or in the NLI catalog.
2. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai Beit Midrash – printed leaf, with the song Bar Yochai Nimshachta Ashrecha by kabbalist R. Shimon Lavi, and Bar Yochai KiNehora DeShimsha by R. David de Medina. Engraving of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai Beit Midrash [including the lamp formerly on the grave of R. Yochanan HaSandlar, presently broken]. Jerusalem, 1889.
Sh. Halevy, no. 641.
3-5. Gezerat Irin. Jerusalem, 1889. 3 copies. Decrees of R. Chaim of Volozhin, R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, R. Akiva Eger and others, forbidding changing donations dedicated to R. Meir Baal HaNes to other causes. Confirmation by R. Shmuel Salant.
Not recorded by Sh. Halevy.
6. Al Titnu Domi Lachem, call for assistance to the Tiberias community, from Tiberias Assistance Division of Agudat Yisrael. Jerusalem, [1934].
Bibliographically unknown. Not recorded in NLI catalog.
7. Letters of warning by R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld and R. Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook not to change or stop donations to Eretz Israel funds. Letters in Hebrew and Yiddish, with English on verso (4 pages on one double leaf). Jerusalem, 1931.
8. Hodaah LaKahal, from the Vaad HaKlali Knesset Yisrael, on distribution of meals to the needy. Jerusalem, 1938.
9. Azharah Chamurah, prohibition to pay Kofer HaYishuv money to the Jewish National Counsel. Jerusalem, [1938]. Hebrew and Yiddish.
10. Hachishu LeEzrat Achim, call for assistance to refugees, from the Council for Assistance to Refugees of Jerusalem of Agudat Yisrael and the Edah HaCharedit, with printed letter from R. Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky. Jerusalem, [ca. 1948].
Bibliographically unknown. Not recorded in NLI catalog.
11-33. Posters on various affairs: sermons, funerals, kashrut and halachic issues, dedications of Torah scrolls, public controversies and protests, and more.
33 posters. Varying size and condition.
Jerusalem – Early Broadsides and Signed Letters
Jerusalem – Early Broadsides and Signed Letters 