Auction of Judaica focusing on printed books and handwritten documents and other manuscripts. Divided into categories as follows:
Religious Hebrew books take up the first third of the auction. Highlights are: The first edition of two parts of the Shulchan Aruch (Venice, 1565, Lots 37 and 38) a large fragment of the Tanach Constantinople, 1522 (lot 5); and several Zhitomir / Slavita imprints.
Also appearing are Rabbinic manuscripts and letters from such luminaries as Yehuda Aszod (lot 57); Avraham Azulai (lot 73); Reuven ibn Yahya (lot 78); Moshe Provencal (lot 87); Ya’akov Toledano (lot 90), etc.
The personal silver Kiddush cup of the Ribnitzer Rebbe (lot 56) will of course attract much attention.
The sale highlight is lot 94: An exceptional illuminated manuscript that has never before appeared at public auction. A Passover Hagadah created by the celebrated artistic-scribe Eliezer Sussman Mezeritsch, Frankfurt, 1833.
The next section (lots 108-178) represents Judaica stemming from across the globe, including Australia, Brazil, China, the German-speaking lands, Gibraltar, Poland, Russia, etc. Also included is much on Holy Land travel, the Land of Israel and Zionism.
The section of Antisemitica / Holocaust includes an exceptional illuminated manuscript (lot 208) devoted to the Polish Jews of Częstochowa. Also of importance is a recently uncovered diary from 1945 of a young Hungarian Jewess who survived Auschwitz (lot 205); and a large archive of personal documents of a German-Jewish doctor who spent the years 1939-47 in Shanghai.
General Judaica (lots 209-245) includes the first edition of Bartolocci’s first ever bibliography of Hebrew books (Rome, 1675, lot 209); a unique copy of the Edgardo Mortara’s autobiography, personally signed by him (lot 226); and the first edition of one of the rarest works of Spanish-Jewish literature, Moses Almosnino’s Extremos y Grandezas de Constantinopla (Madrid, 1638, lot 231).
The penultimate section of the sale (lot 241-267) are illustrated books and graphic art including several fine books from the magnificent hand of Arthur Szyk, including two original drawings by him (lots 258, 259).
The final section of the sale are fine books that stem from the library of the late Charles Wuorinen, being English & Continental Early Printed Books (lots 268-291).
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LOT 15:
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Start price:
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Estimated price :
$600 - $900
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
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(CHASSIDISM).
(Chabad). HaKriah VehaKedusha. Monthly periodical issued by Agudas Chassidei Chabad, under the authority of the (Friediker) Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Volume I - V, 61 numbers (all published), bound together in one volume. Text in Yiddish, with supplement in English (commencing from issue no. 7).
Ex-library, some wear, earlier pages closely shaved and brittle. Modern boards, Folio. Sold not subject to return.
Brooklyn, New York, Kehot, 1940-45.
Complete set of all 61 issues of this periodical, focusing on the Torah and broader world, from the outlook of the Chabad mindset.
HaKriah VehaKedusha is historically important for an insight into the very beginnings of Chabad in the United States.
Publication began just as soon as the Lubavitcher Rebbe moved into 770 Eastern Parkway in time for Rosh HaShanah 1940. He had earlier found sanctuary in America, arriving from war-torn Europe in March, 1940.
At this time, and throughout the five years of publication - the duration of World War II - the Rebbe (The Raya”tz, R. Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn) was insistent this was the era of “L’Alter L’Teshuva L’Alter L’Geula” (“Immediate repentance [leading to] immediate redemption.”).
For an encapsulated history of HaKriah VehaKedusha from a Chabad internal source (S.D. Avtzon), see: https://crownheights.info/chabad-news/737866/weekly-story-hakriah-vhakedusha/
