(CARLEBACH, SHLOMO).

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 274

(CARLEBACH, SHLOMO).

Singular musician and teacher (1925-1994). Floor-plan pencil-written in German and Hebrew in a child's hand, depicting the layout of the synagogue in Baden, the seating arrangements of the Carlebach Family and a list of "Kibudim:" The chazan for Musaph is noted as Shlomo ("Slaumele") and his twin brother Eli-Chaim ("Elele") is to be chazan for Ein Kamocha. Others mentioned are: Mannes Wikler, Bubi and Fredi Schabes, Sini and Heini Fruchter, Beno and Saki Liberman, Bunjo and Mosi Milrom. Written on the reverse of a folio-sized form of the Israel. Cultusgemeinde, Baden

Est: $500 - $700
Born in Berlin in 1925, Shlomo Carlebach and his family moved in 1931 to Baden, a spa town a few mile south of Vienna, before leaving for Switzerland in 1933 and ultimately settling in New York City in 1939