(Bar-Mitzvah Scrap-book)

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Place

(New York

Publication

1906)

Description

Commemorating the Bar-Mitzvah of Ralph V. Tarshis of Brooklyn, New York. Various printed and illustrated mementos on elegant card applied to larger sheets. Includes: formal invitation (in Hebrew and English); photographs of the boy in his earlier years and his parents; original poems in Hebrew and English (with acrostic verses) celebrating the event; menu. Replete with quotations from Jewish literature and Shakespeare

summary

A uniquely charming and erudite keepsake

pp.(18 ). Original stiff wrappers tied with ribbon, photograph of the young man clad in Tefillin and Talith on upper cover. Gutter starting. 4to

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