(RABBINIC PORTRAITS).

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 352

(RABBINIC PORTRAITS).

“Die Grossen, Gelehrten Rabbiner Jsraels. The great learned rabbis of Israel.” Featuring bust portrait vignettes of the great Ashkenazic and Sephardic rabbis from the 12th to 19th centuries, with a larger, central image of Maimonides; the whole topped by ‘Crown of Torah.’ Hebrew (and some German) captions which include respective rabbi’s name and other information including: city, position, magnum opus and date of death. Repairs along borders with some loss. 15.75 x 20.5 inches.

Breslau, c. 1900:

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $600

A most uncommon selection of 40 rabbinic portraits from the more well-known and celebrated (the Vilna Gaon, R. Yonasan Eybeschutz and the Chassam Sofer) to the less commonly depicted (Rabbis Naftoli Hirsch Katzenellenbogen, Yedidya Tia Weil of Karlsruhe and David HaCohen de Azevedo). See A Mirror of Jewish Life: A Selection from The Moldovan Family Collection (Tel Aviv, 1999) no. 5.