Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH & MEGILOTH). The Holy Bible - Chamishah Chumshei Torah.

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 77
(BIBLE

Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH & MEGILOTH). The Holy Bible - Chamishah Chumshei Torah.

Commentaries of Rashi and Targum Onkelos. Colored title page. Special blue crushed morocco, tooled in silver including owner’s name: “Mr. S. Kramarsky.” Slip-case. 8vo

Munich: Vaad Hatzala 1947

Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $250
Issued by the Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee for the Sherith Hapleita - survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. With introductory pages in Hebrew and English superimposed over colored Stars and Stripes, dedicating the Bible to President Harry S. Truman. See A.J. Karp, Library of Congress Catalogue p.34 (illustrated) Accompanied by three prayer-books belonging to the Kramarsky Family (one, American Jewish Soldiers and Sailors edition, 1943) x-ref Holoc.