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38 ITEMS INCLUDING ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS IN HEBREW AND ENGLISH,

20TH CENTURY EPHEMERA INCLUDING HOLOCAUST AND

PALESTINE MANDATE ITEMS

1. REISINGER, DAN - POSTER - MIPHAL HAPYAS Tel Aviv, Government Printers 1953

Backed on archival linen - measures 70 x 50 cm [and 80 x 59 including backing] Dan Reisinger [1934 – 2019] was one of Israel’s leading graphic designers he designed the iconic Soviet Jewry poster “Let My People Go” which became a symbol of the Soviet Jewry movement. [ref: 19793] £950

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2. AMERICAN ZIONIST BUREAU. - BRITISH STATESMEN ON THE PALESTINE LAND TRANSFERS REGULATIONS (CMD. 6180)

Washington DC, American Zionist Bureau [1940] Transcripts from the House of Commons speeches by Philip J. Noel-Baker MP, Rt. Hon. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Major V. A. Cazalet, Rt. Hon. Josiah Clement Wedgwood, Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery, J. McGovern MP, Rt. Hon. Sir William A. Jowitt. Original wrappers, 23cm, 36 pp, fading to edges of cover and spine, bottom left corner of front cover and first few pages worn away not affecting text. [Note this is not the actual document Cmd 6180 but comments on the document.] [ref: 5352] £280

3. WATERS, M.P. HAGANAH - JEWISH SELF DEFENCE IN PALESTINE London, Newman Wolsey Limited Original wrappers, 18.5cm, 62 pp, creasing to front cover, otherwise very good condition. MP Waters was a pseudonym for Moshe Pearlman. There are several editions of this before and after the establishment of the State Israel. The later ones describing the transition of the Haganah into the IDF. [ref: 10996] £95

4. THE PALESTINE INFORMATION CENTRE. CRISIS IN PALESTINE THE TASK OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION. HAS THERE BEEN A BREACH OF FAITH? London H. J. Ryman Ltd. 1936 Original wrappers, 21 cm, 15 pp. Includes a small map of Palestine in 1936 in the text. Mild yellowing appropriate for age. Otherwise good condition. From an Arab perspective. Severely critical of the Royal Commission Report which was known as the Peel Commission which it sees as favouring the Jews. [ref: 18062] £275

5. FOREST OF FREEDOM COMMITTEE A TRIBUTE TO THE LIVING, A MEMORIAL TO THE DEAD. AN EVERLASTING RECORD OF ALL JEWISH MEN AND WOMEN FROM GT. BRITAIN WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE WAR EFFORT.

London, Forest of Freedom Committee c 1946 An advertisement and order form. 19cm, unpaginated 4 pp, very good condition. Striking blue and white print on front cover, depicting a worker in a forest, with the sun shining over the trees. The forest is in honour of all men and women who participated in the war effort in the Army, Navy, Air Force Merchant Navy ATS, WRNS etc. [ref: 5477] £75

6. ABRAHAMS, A - BACKGROUND OF UNREST PALESTINE JOURNEY 1944 Manchester, Galil Publishing Co., Ltd [1945] Original wrappers, 18.5cm, 47 pp, overall good condition. There is some rusting to staple and there is some dis-colouration to bottom edge of rear wrapper. Highly critical of the British Administration from a Jewish perspective - highlights strict censorship, black market created by the Government and the anti-semitism of some of the British officials. [ref: 5464] £160

7. KAZNELSON, BERL - REACTION V PROGRESS IN PALESTINE

London, Palestine Labour Studies Group 1937 Original wrappers, 20cm, 25 pp, good condition. [Palestine Labour Studies No. 2] Originally delivered as a speech at the Jewish Workers’ Circle in October 1936. “Comrades! I come to England not …. To conduct a propaganda campaign but as a Fraternal Delegate of the Palestine Workers’ Movement to the Conference of the British Labour Party.” [ref: 9241] £125

8. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. - PALESTINE ZIONIST EXECUTIVE- ERETZ-ISRAEL FOR JEWISH TOURISTS Jerusalem, Department of Trade and Industry, Palestine Zionist Executive, 1922. Original wrappers, 20cm, 32 pp, with fold out map of Palestine. Overall good condition, with two advertisements at the back for Palestinian Jewish companies. Ex library. [ref: 7094] £250

9. THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE. JEWS AND ARABS IN PALESTINE - SOME CURRENT QUESTIONS

London The Jewish Agency for Palestine 1936 Original wrappers, 22cm, 32 pp, very good condition. Deals with a range of issues relating to the Arab in Palestine including the Arab increase under the Mandate, Arab Economic Development, Jewish Land purchase and several other issues. [ref: 7093] £150

10. RECEPTION IN THE GRAND HOTEL ON WEDNESDAY, 1ST APRIL 1925 AT 7:30PM. UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY JEWISH SOCIETY AND THE GLASGOW CENTRAL ZIONIST ORGANISATION TO CELEBRATE THE OPENING OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY IN JERUSALEM [Glasgow] [Glasgow, University of Glasgow] 1925 A programme for the reception in Glasgow celebrating the opening of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 18cm., unpaginated, text in English, it lists the toasts to be given. The front cover is illustrated by the Star of David and by the University of Glasgow's stamp. Crease through the middle, but overall good condition. [ref: 13800] £125

11. JOSEPH, BERNARD (DOV YOSEF - 1899 - 1980)- MINUTE OF AN INTERVIEW WITH SIR CHARLES TEGART ON SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1939 - MARKED ‘CONFIDENTIAL’

Jerusalem? 1939 5 pp Typescript fullscap 33cm Bernard Joseph immigrated to Palestine in 1918. He was a member of the Jewish Agency and became the Military Governor of Jerusalem in the 1948 war. Sir Charles Tegart was a colonial policeman, first in India and then in Palestine. The discussion relates to the building of some new Jewish Settlements, and additionally there is some discussion of Partition, and how to bring the Jews and Arabs closer together. [ref: 18301] £180

12. KESSLER, L . HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF JEWISH COLONISATION IN PALESTINE - A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE WEST LONDON ZIONIST ASSOCIATION London, The English Zionist Federation 1918 Original wrappers, 21.5cm, 20 pp, very good condition, some slight wear to covers. [ref: 18302] £125

13. PEIRSON, MRS. ANNIE. THE HOMELAND OF THE JEWS - THE PROMISED LAND New York, The Metchik Press,

1928 Preface by Professor Selig Brodetsky. Original wrappers, 19cm, 10 pp. The pamphlet contains biblical texts referring to the Promised Land. Very good condition. [ref: 20030] £60

14. RABAN, ZEEV. - ERETZ YISRAEL, ESER TEMUNOT [10 PICTURES] Tel Aviv Sinai 1950s

10 beautiful illustrations by Zeev Raban 18 x 25 cm, in an oblong book with a typical Bezalel binding with a copper plate illustrating Kever Rachel on the front cover. [ref: 19796] £100

15. [ FORD, HENRY ] - THE INTERNATIONAL JEW: THE WORLD’S FOREMOST PROBLEM BEING A REPRINT OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES APPEARING IN THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT FROM MAY 22 TO OCTOBER 2, 1920

Dearborn, Michigan, The Dearborn Publishing Co. 1920 Original grey wrappers, 19cm, 235pp. The first printing of these articles collected into a single book. One of the most notorious Anti-Semitic works of the 20th Century. Overall good condition. This later was re-issued in green wrappers as volume one of a 4 volume set issued over the next couple of years. [ref: 19987] £250

16. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF RABBI. MEMORIAL PRAYER FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE MASS MASSACRES OF JEWS IN NAZI OCCUPIED LANDS TO BE RECITED ON TISHA B'AV AFTER THE READING OF THE LAW, ON SUCCEEDING SABBATHS AFTER THE PRAYER FOR THE KING AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. London Office of the Chief

Rabbi 1942 Original wrappers, 21.5cm, unpaginated 3 pp. Parallel text in Hebrew and English. Prayers to be recited for the Jews being massacre by the Nazis. [ref: 5465] £100

17. BAHYA BEN JOSEPH IBN PAKUDA. TORAT CHOVOT HALVOVOT [Germany?] Naftali Binyamin Eckstein 1940s Cloth, 312+286pp, text in Hebrew with a Yiddish translation and commentary, gilt ornament on cover. There is a striking dedication to the parents of the publisher who were murdered in Bergen Belsen and Plaszow (outside Krakow). Yellowing to pages, otherwise very good. Produced for use by the Shearet HaPletah (the Survivors) [ref: 19988] £125

18. OLEVSKI, RAFAEL AND DAWID ROSENTAL AND PAUL TREPMAN. - UNDZERE CHURBAN IN BILD, OUR DESTRUCTION IN PICTURES Bergen Belsen Undzere Shtima (Our Voice) December, 1946

Oblong folio, conservation case-bound using fully acid free materials.

The decorative color wrapper at the front has been inset to prevent any damage. Published under the auspices of the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the British Zone. The text is in English, Yiddish, Hebrew and German and each language has its own title page. Printed on card. Contains 115 photographs showing the Nazi attacks on the Jews. Each page contains 3 or 4 pictures. The introduction of the book poignantly describes its purpose: "The incentive to produce this collection gave us our deepest desire to show the world the crimes of Germany, to give expression to the throttled cry of pain of the Jews. The desire to bring back our memories of Jewish Settlements which were drowned in torrents of Jewish Blood. May the world have this knowledge and ponder on it. When words are too weak and too poor to convey the destruction and extermination of Jewish life, may these pictures found by accident on arrested SS Soldiers, speak for themselves of the bestiality which will forever bring shame on humankind" Yiddish inscription on Yiddish title page [ref: 19129] £450

19. GANZFRIED, RABBI SHLOMO [Holocaust] KITZUR SHULCHAN ARUCH - ABREVIATED CODE OF JEWISH LAW

Munich, American Joint Distribution Committee, 1948 Original paper wrappers paper, 20cm. 132 + 132 pp. Text in Hebrew. Historic Holocaust item, produced for the Shearet HaPleateh (Survivors) after the war for use in the DP camps. [ref: 19989] £150

20. SCHIFFER, FEIWLA (FEIWEL). TOLDOT NAPOLEON, MIYOM LAIDOTO (DEN 15TH AUGUST, 1789) AD YOM MOTO (DEN 5TH MAY 1821) Warszawa (Warsaw) J Lebensohna 1857 Original boards, 67 + 60 pp. Text in Hebrew There is an imprimatur of the Censor J Tugendhold – A Hebrew biography of Napoleon. [ref: 20025] £150

21. BIBLIA HEBRAICA SINE PUNCTIS ... AD LEUSDENIANAM EDITIONEM ADORNATA Amsterdam, 1701

Recent leather binding, 15cm, 306 leaves + (4 pp). An un-pointed edition, based on Leusden. Preliminary matter includes engraved title, Hebrew title, Latin title, preface (Amsterdam , 1 October 1701), and Hebrew verses; 6 ff. Text 293 ff; followed by notes and table. Darlow and Moule 5139 Vinograd 734. This edition that was favoured by those performing the Goral HaGra. This ritual, attributed to the Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman), is conducted by randomly opening a bible and linking the verses on the page to the matter at hand. The purpose of the ceremony is to find answers to a question of great importance. If there is no hint in the verse, one skips to the next verse that begins with the last letter of the previous verse. (see NLI blog re Rav Aryeh Levine identification of the bodies of 12 fallen Israeli soldiers using this ritual) [ref: 20031] £500

22. TEFILLAH BAAD NITZACHON TZVAATAINU TZVAOT CHAYAL RUMANIA AL SDE HAMILCHAMA [PRAYER FOR OUR ARMY’S VICTORY, ROMANIAN ARMY ON THE BATTLE FIELD. RUGACIUNE PENTRU IZBANDA ARMATELOR RMANE PE CAMPUL DE RAZBOIU

Societatea “Caritatea” 48 x 56 cm Text in Hebrew and Romanian. 38 prayers to be said for the for the victory of the Romanian Army in the First World War. Amongst the verses “Strengthen Our King Ferdinand the First and Queen Maria and Crown Prince Karl and the whole family .... Expand the borders of our country and may all our sons come home.” In Hebrew and Rumanian. To be said after Kriat HaTorah on Mondays and Thursday and on Shabbat. There is a long list of names in manuscript on the reverse. Rare unrecorded. [ref: 20011] £750

23. ABENDANA, ISAAC. DISCOURSES OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL POLITY OF THE JEWS, ETC VIZ OF THEIR JUDICATURE; LAWS CONCERNING TITHES; INSTITUTION OF THE PRIESTHOOD; THEIR LITURGY; THEIR SCHOOLS; THEIR FEASTS, FAST, COINS, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. London, Printed for Samuel Ballard at the Blue Ball in Little Britain 1706. Modern paper covered boards with cloth backstrip, 18cm, vi + 200 pp Ex library. Roth Magna B11:9 [ref: 19994] £350

24. BY A LADY - AN APPEAL TO THE FEMALES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ON BEHALF OF THE LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE JEWS. MORE ESPECIALLY WITH REFERENCE TO THE DEGRADED SITUATION OF THE POOR JEWESSES.

London, B.R Goakman c.1811 Original wrappers, 21cm., 10pp., text in English, disbound, overall good condition. It calls for women to show Christian charity to destitute Jewish women, to give funds in order for an Asylum to be built for these Jewish women. Asks for money, time and talents to be given to the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews. [ref: 13791] £250

25. BUNN, RABBI NATAN BEN YITZCHAK YAACOV - SHICKCHAT LEKET Amsterdam, Emmanuel Attias 1700 More recent cloth, 16cm, 35 leaves. Text in Hebrew. Vinograd 707. [ref: 19997] £250

26. HOROWITZ, CHAIM BEN YEHOSHUA - NACHALAT CHAIM

Wilhemsdorf Zvi Hirsch Ben Chaim M’Furth 1722 19cm (x 15 small quarto) 28 leaves, text in hebrew, Vinograd 122 [ref: 19998] £185

27. LIVORNO COMMUNITY KOL RINA Livorno, 1789. Modern cloth, new end-papers, Vinograd 283. A liturgical text. Text in Hebrew, 52 pp [ref: 19996] £250

28. NOBEL, JOSEF. - DIE ORGELFRAGE

Mainz Joh. Wirtz, 1897. Original wrappers, 20cm, 27pp, ex-library. Text in German Gothic script, vertical crease, covers soiled, minor pen and pencil markings inside. Response of the rabbi of Halberstadt to the issue of using organs in liturgy. Worldcat lists only five copies in USA and Israel [ref: 11016] £125

29. KRAUSS, SAMUEL ZUR. ORGELFRAGE [THE ORGAN QUESTION] VON DR. SAMUEL KRAUSS, PROFESSOR AN DER ISREALITISCHEN THEOLOG. LEHRANSTALT IN WIEN. [BY DR. SAMUEL KRAUSS, PROFESSOR AT THE JEWISH FACULTY IN VIENNA]. Wien (Vienna) Wiener Jüdisches Organisationskomitee 1919 Original Wrappers, 23cm, 32 pp. Aged toning to wrappers. Some browning to pages commensurate with age. Overall condition very good. [ref: 17009] £95

30. BENAYAHU, MEIR COPYRIGHT, AUTHORIZATION AND IMPRIMATOUR FOR HEBREW BOOKS PRINTED IN VENICE

Jerusalem Machon Ben Zvi/Mossad Harav Kook 1971 Original cloth, dj. 8vo, 396 pp facsimiles. Text in Hebrew. A little wear to dj, overall very good condition. [ref: 11087] £75

31. WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY EAST END STORY: THE HISTORY AND LIFE OF EAST LONDON FROM ROMAN TIMES TO 1920: CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF LIFE IN THE EAST END APRIL 26 - JUNE 18, 1949 London, Whitechapel Art Gallery 1949 Original wrappers, 21.5cm, 47pp, text in English, very good condition. Not in Gross Catalog of Catalogs. [ref: 12121] £60

32. TATTERSALL, MISS M A S . JEWISH COOKERY BOOK COMPILED FOR USE IN THE COOKERY CENTRES UNDER THE SCHOOL BOARD FOR LONDON

London Wertheimer, Lea and Co [1895] First edition? Original red cloth boards, 18.5 cm, 128 pp. Some minor wear and soiling to cloth, overall a very good copy. There is staining to a couple of pages not affecting text. Worldcat lists 8 copies 5 in the USA and 3 in the UK [ref: 20033] £200

33. WOLF, LUCIEN, ED.- LADY MONTEFIORE'S HONEYMOON: AN UNPUBLISHED DIARY

London Jewish Chronicle Office 1902 Original wrappers, 24cm., 20pp., text in English, wrappers detached and chipped creased and with tears, pages are loose there is an illustration of a miniature of a youthful Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore together. Reprinted from The Jewish Chronicle, with corrections and additions. An introduction by Lucien Wolf [ref: 13787] £200

34. SEDER HAGGADAH SHEL PESACH - SERVICE FOR THE TWO FIRST NIGHTS OF PASSOVER ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF GERMAN AND POLISH JEWS London, S Solomon 1849 Modern cloth, 21cm, 1 + 26 + 6 pp. Text in Hebrew with an English translation. Previous owner’s name neatly stamped on front free-endpaper. Lehmann 13 - Yudlov 928, Yaari 683 [ref: 20078] £225

35. NEWMAN, AUBREY (EDITED AND PREPARED BY). THE JEWISH EAST END 1840-1939 - PROCEEDINGS

London, The Jewish Historical Society of England 1981 Orig paperback, 21cm, xi + 358 pp [2 pages maps] A very good copy. Minor staining to wrapps. Proceedings of the conference held on 22nd October 1980 jointly by the Jewish Historical Society of England and the Jewish East End Project of the Association For Jewish Youth [ref: 16855] £50

36. WARSON, H. (EDITOR) - THE STEPNIAN. THE MAGAZINE OF THE STEPNEY JEWISH LADS’ CLUB BOUND VOLUME CONTAINING ISSUES VOL X, 5,6, VOL XI, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 VOL XII, 1, 2, 3. FROM OCTOBER 1934 - OCTOBER 1937.

London 1934-1937 Cloth 21.5 cm. Approx 22 pp per issue with some illustrations. Original wrappers bound in. A rare magazine for Jewish youth. It ran from 1901 - 1962. See no 143 in Josef Fraenkel - Exhibition of the Jewish Press in Great Britain, 1823-1963. [ref: 19984] £150

37. REVEREND HENRY PHILLIPS SILVERMAN - THE TERCENTENARY OF THE OFFICIAL FOUNDING OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF JAMAICA B. W. I. 5415-5715 1655-1955. A PANORAMA OF JAMAICA JEWRY BY THE REVEREND HENRY PHILLIPS SILVERMAN, H. C. F., SPIRITUAL LEADER OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF JAMAICA, B. W. I. ART EDITOR: H. CLAUDE DESOUZA Kingston, Jamaica 1955 Original wrappers 28 cm. 19 pp Illustrated. It provides a short historical survey of Jamaican Jewry. [ref: 17562] £150

38. SERVICE PRAYER BOOK FOR THE SOLEMN DAYS FOR JEWISH MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN FORCES PRAYER FOR NEW YEAR AND DAY OF ATONEMENT: SERVICE EDITION FOR AUSTRALIAN SAILORS, SOLDIERS AND AIRMEN. [IN THE HEBREW IT SAYS KITZUR (ABBREVIATED) ORDER OF PRAYER. ]

Sydney 1945 3rd edition. Original wrappers, 17cm, 84 + 86 pp Text in Hebrew and English. Poignant item with prayer for those on active service. Uncommon. [ref: 18728] £250