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Auction 60 · Lot 336

A varied miscellany of manuscripts, documents, letters and ephemera. Scholarly, communal, political, etc. All in Hebrew and Yiddish.

Estimate
$1,000–$2,000
Hammer price
$3,300

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author

(MANUSCRIPTS).

Place

v.p

Publication

18th - 20th centuries

summary

Should be seen. A wide variety of materials. From the collection of a scholarly collector. Manuscript material includes: A catalogue of the library of Nachum Sokolow; Takanoth Nikolsburg, Ginzei Nistaroth (copy of manuscript originally written in Safed, 1585 copied in 1860); copy of work Kether Torah sent by David Frankel to Moses Lutsky; letter written to Solomon Plesner, 1841; letter written to R. Samuel Heller (1863); Hamitpah, Cracow, 1914 no 28; copy of Maaseh Ta’atuim (polemic against R. Nathan Adler of Frankfurt); Anti-Chassidic tract including copy of Cherem against Chassidim issued in Vilna, Brody and Cracow. Printed material includes: Hanachah Histadruth HaZionith Odoth Eretz Yisrael, 1919 (Draft of Zionist position on establishment of Jewish homeland); Receipt of payment for volumes of Metz Shas, 1773; Title page of first edition Siddur R. Yaakov Emden, etc.
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