Large collection of c. 600 Broadsides, documents, etc. Mostly in Hebrew, also Yiddish, English, Arabic, Hungarian and German

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 185
(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Large collection of c. 600 Broadsides, documents, etc. Mostly in Hebrew, also Yiddish, English, Arabic, Hungarian and German

20th-century:

Est: $4,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $3,000
Rich historical archive containing many pamphlets, posters and announcements. All pertain to the social, religious, economic and political fabric of pre- and post-1948 Israel. Materials range from the secular Keren ha-Yesod, the Orthodox Agudath Israel, and the ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta. A miscellaneous selection: A special selichah and prayer for the second day of Rosh Hashanah composed in 1948 by Chief Sephardic Rabbi Benzion Uziel; a Pulsa de-Nura (Death Incantation) issued against Gershon Agron, Mayor of Jerusalem (1955-1959), claimed efficacious; Memorial Service for U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Sephardic Chief Rabbi Isaac Nissim (1963); Memorial Service by Chief Aschkenazic Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman for Sir Winston Churchill (1965); a call by extreme secular elements to administer capital punishment to two yeshiva students guilty of firebombing “Eros,” a sex-boutique in Tel-Aviv; a ticket on the special Haifa-Jerusalem train that conveyed the late Satmarer Rebbe, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum upon his visit to Eretz Israel, 7 Tammuz 1955; unused stationery of The Great Hurva Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem with Chief Rabbi A.I. Kook as President (1920s); a broadside issued by the Eidah Chareidith of Jerusalem welcoming Rabbi Mordecai Savitsky, Chief Rabbi of Boston, and his brother-in-law R. Bernard Poupko of Pittsburgh. An important source for much original historical research.