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20 Curiosities including a satirical Bolshevik Talmud, a
book of Jewish thoughts in Arabic and the first English
edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
1. M ONTEFIORE , S IR M OSES . - L ETTER FROM S IR M OSES
M ONTEFIORE T O J ERUSALEM R ABBIS REGARDING F UNDS
COLLECTED IN THE USA FOR DISTRIBUTION IN P ALESTINE
[Ramsgate] 1873.
Letter written in Hebrew on Sir Moses Montefiore Holy Land letter head.
The letter is written by a secretary but signed in Hebrew by Sir Moses
Montefiore. It is numbered 7410. The letter has been put in a mount with
an English translation. It is addressed to four rabbis: Rabbi Abraham
Ashkenazi, Chcham Bashi [Chief Rabbi of Palestine]; Rabbi Moses
Viniste; Rabbi Osher Mannikshaft and Rabbi Jacob Jehuda Leib Lewe.
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“...... Accept herewith my letter with the enclosed sum of £17 6.0
(seventeen pounds and six shillings) which I received from the
wealthy Mr Rosenwald of the Holy Congregation of Baltimore in
the United States. It is his wish that the mentioned sum be
distributed to the poor brethren who live in the Holy Land. The
enclosed donation was collected in the following manner from the
Congregation ‘Shevet Achim’ £8, from the Community ‘Sheerit
Yisrael’ £2 and 6 shillings and from ‘Chizuk Emunah’ £7.”
[ref: 16964 ]
£1,400
2. C ATALOGUE OF A NGLO -J EWISH H ISTORICAL E XHIBITION ,
1887. R OYAL A LBERT H ALL , AND OF S UPPLEMENTARY
E XHIBITIONS H ELD AT T HE P UBLIC R ECORD O FFICE ,
B RITISH M USEUM , S OUTH
K ENSINGTON M USEUM London
William Clowes and Sons 1887
Original printed wrappers 22cm, xxi
+(3) + 208 pp. Spine is worn away at top
and bottom. Some soiling but overall a
good copy. An important and early
exhibition relating to the Jews in
England, and containing Jewish
ceremonial objects from other countries,
including items from the Strauss
Collection The exhibition was divided
into 4 sections . (1) Historic Relics and
Records. (2) Jewish Ecclesiastical Art
(including Synagogue, Home and
Personal) (3) Antiquities and (4) Coins
and Medals and the supplementary
exhibitions. Each section has an
introduction. The first public display of Jewish ceremonial art was the
exhibition of 82 objects from the Strauss Collection in Paris in 1878 and
some of these were included in this exhibition. [ref: 16975 ]
£275
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3. H AGGADAH S HEL P ESACH I M O TIOT K EDOLOT Amsterdam
Yochanan Levi Ubeno Benyamin Rofe, 1815
Original paper covered boards. 18cm, 40 leaves, some illustrations.
Interestingly the illustrations are all decorated first letters of paragraphs.
Tear to corner of title page with no loss of text. Some foxing and
staining. Yudlov 550, Yaari 386
[ref: 16974 ]
£350
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4. T HE J EWISH P ERIL :
P ROTOCOLS OF THE L EARNED
E LDERS OF Z ION London Eyre &
Spottiswoode Ltd 1920
First English edition. Original grey
wrappers, 95 pp. One of the most
notorious works of Anti-Semitism from
the 20th Century and a blueprint for all
subsequent works of Anti-semitism.
Originally published in Russian at the
beginning of the 20th Century. It accuses
the Jewish people of attempting to gain
world domination through control of the
press and financial manipulation.
[ref: 16971 ]
£395
5. M E TAL P LATE
WITH
IMAGE IN RELIEF OF THE
G REAT S YNAGOGUE T EL
A VIV .
A circular metal plate 32 cm
in diameter. It has an image
of the Great Synagogue Tel
Aviv. Circa 1940s or 1950s .
[ref: 16970 ]
£295
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6. D AILY M AIL - W EDNESDAY D ECE MBER 3 1947: A RABS
WRECK , BURN , LOOT , AND STAB IN J ERUSALEM - HOLY
WAR DECLARED - W ORLD CALL TO M OSLEMS London,
advance edition 1947
Browned and somewhat frayed to edges and fragile. This was just after
the UN vote on the Partition of Palestine which led to the founding of the
State of Israel. [ref: 9434 ]
£95
7. D ALI , S ALVADOR , M EZUZAH C ASE
A bronze Mezuzah Case designed by Salvador Dali. Dali's monogram is
on the Mezuzah case and on the original box. The Mezuzah Case
measures 215 mm
[ref: 4927 ]
£475
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8. G OLDSCHMIDT ,
L AZARUS . T HE E ARLIEST
I LLUSTRATED
H AGGADAH , P RINTED BY
G ERSHOM C OHEN AT
P RAGUE Discovered and
described by Lazarus
Goldschmidt London
Bromlea Book Sales Ltd
1940
Original blue cloth with gilt
lettering to spine. 29cm, 61 pp.
text, vii plates of facsimiles of the
Haggadah. Top edge gilt, tissue
guards for illustrations. The
Prague Haggadah is one of the
rarest and most sought after
Hebrew books. This book offers an account of the discovery that there
were two editions of the Prague Haggadah. Goldschmidt bought this
defective copy of the Haggadah to complete the copy he had in his
possession only to discover that this was a different and hitherto
unknown edition of the Prague Haggadah. Number 114 of 200 copies.
Some marking or staining and fading to cloth, overall a good copy
otherwise. Translated from the German manuscript Immanuel
Goldschmidt [ref: 16965 ]
£125
9. H ERTZ , C HIEF R ABBI J
H F ILE - FIKR AL Y AHUDIY
[B OOK OF J EWISH
T HOUGHTS ] Cairo Dār
Majallatī li-al-Ṭabʻ wa-alNashr [1920]
Original printed wrappers, 20cm,
445 pp. A copy of Chief Rabbi
Hertz’s famous book in Arabic!
Originally published in 1917 for the
use of Jewish soldiers in the British
army and greatly expanded in
subsequent years. This edition is in
Arabic and published in Cairo
which had a significant Jewish
population at the time.
[ref: 16966 ]
£250
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10.
K UP PERSTIEN (C OOPERS TIEN ), L EIB [H OLOCAUST ]
M EGILLAT S TRUMA [S CROLL , S TORY OF THE S TRUMA ] Tel
Aviv Organisation of Oleh Rumania B’Eretz Yisrael 1942
Original wrappers, Text in Hebrew, 134 pp. At the end there is a letter in
English addressed to Sir Harold MacMichael, the High Commissioner of
Palestine. The Struma was a ship carrying about 780 Jewish refugees
from Roumania to Mandatory Palestine. It is believed to have been
torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, and there was only one survivor.
[ref: 16976 ]
£125
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11. L EVINE , T HE
R EV E PHRAIM
T HE H ISTORY OF
THE N EW W EST
E ND S YNAGOGUE
1879-1929 1929
Original wrappers,
21.5cm, 45 pp plus plates
(1 internal view of the
synagogue and 5 pages of
portraits of officiants
etc). Some minor soiling
and wear to wrappers
overall a very good copy.
[ref: 10458 ] £85
12. L UZZATTO , S D V IKUACH A L C HO CHMAT H A K ABBALAH
V AL K IDMAT S EFER H A Z OHAR - D IALOGUES S UR L A
K ABBALE E T L E Z OHAR ET SUR L’A NTIQUITE D E LA
P ONCTUATION E T D E L’A CCENTU ATION D ANS L A L ANGUE
H EBRAIQUE A Polemic on the Kabbalah and the Age of the
Zohar. Gorice (Gorizia) Seitz 1852
Half leather over cloth, wear ad marking to boards and spine. Text in
Hebrew with 8 French pages. Title in Hebrew and French. 137 + (1) + 8
pp. Samuel David Luzzatto (1800 – 1865) was one of the most
prominent contributors to the Science of Judaism in the 19th Century.
This is a polemic on the age of the Zohar which traditionally had been
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attributed to Rabbi Yochan Ben Zackai but more recently attributed to
the 13th Century Moses De Leon. [ref: 16972 }]
£175
13. M ELAMED , A BRAHAM B EN S HLOMO
Z ECHARYIA . - M ASECHET A DMONIM
M IN T ALMUD B OLSHOVE ,
T RACTATE R E DS FROM THE
B OLSHEVIK T ALMUD , T ALMUDIC
PARODY OF R USSIAN C OMMUNISM
FROM 1923 Tel Aviv 1923
Modern cloth, 22cm, 48 pp. The pages are
browned. A clever parody of Communism in the
form of a Talmudic Tractate. The parody is
dedicated to Dovid Ben Rav Shlomo Zalman
who was killed by the Communists in 1920. He
requested that he be hung first so as not to
witness the executions of his companions.
The 'Mishnah' begins 'All are Red. There is no difference between Red
and White, apart for the name alone. Rabbi Yarkan says the Yerokin
(Greens) are included. 'Rashi' says that the Gemara will explain who
the Yerokim are. On 3a, for example, we see that 'the Whites call 'Zhid!'
loudly, while the Reds say it quietly.' i.e., they are both antisemitic.
See http://onthemainline.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/tractate-redstalmudic-parody-of.html [ref: 16967 ]
£275
14.[S OVIET J EWRY ] (R. J UDAH L EI B L EWIN , E DITOR )
S IDDUR HA -S HALOM WITH H AGGADAH FOR P ASSOVER
Moscow 1968
479 pp., 237:161 mm. A very good copy bound in the original cloth
boards. Second edition of the siddur first composed by Rabbi Solomon
Schliefer, former rabbi of Moscow. Rabbi Schliefer had received
permission from the authorities to print - for the first time under the
Soviet regime - a Jewish prayer book (3,000 copies) – arguably as
consolation for signing, under pressure, a statement of several
prominent Soviet Jews against the "aggression" of Israel during the Sinai
Campaign, published in Izvestiya (Nov. 29, 1956).
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The siddur consisted of photostated pages from pre-revolutionary prayer
books, from which any reference to wars and victories (e.g., in the
Hanukkah benedictions) were omitted. Perhaps sardonically. Schliefer
called it Siddur ha-Shalom (Peace Prayer Book) instead of the customary
Siddur ha-Shalem, (Complete Prayer Book).
In 1957, when Rabbi Solomon Schliefer inaugurated the yeshiva in the
Moscow Great Synagogue, and was officially regarded as the ‘Rosh
Yeshiva.’ However, he appointed Rabbi Lewin as the principal.
Several months after Rabbi Schliefer's death, Rabbi Lewin was appointed
his successor, both as rabbi of the Great Synagogue and as the Rosh
Yeshiva. (see bio note below). He did his best to fulfill his difficult task to serve as semiofficial spokesman and apologist for the Soviet policy in
matters of Judaism and at the same time to be a genuine spiritual leader
to his congregation and refrain from acts and statements blatantly
contradicting Jewish interests and the real sentiments of Soviet Jewry.
The item for sale is R. Lewin's 1968 second edition of the Siddur HaShalom which was produced after a similar compromise between him
and the Russian authorities in the wake of the 1967 Israeli - Arab war.
[Reference: R. Judah Leib Levin (1894–1971), Russian rabbi. Born in
Yekaterinoslav, where his father, Eliezer Shemuel, was rabbi, Lewin
studied at the Slobodka yeshiva. During World War I he became rabbi of
the Ukrainian town Grishino (now Krasnoarmeisk, Ukraine), and later,
for a short period, rabbi of his native Yekaterinoslav. Because of the high
taxes imposed on religious clergy and conflicts with the leaders of the
congregation he gave up the rabbinate and, returning to Krasnoarmeisk,
engaged in the work of a religious scribe for various Jewish
communities, particularly in Georgia] [ref: 16968 ]
£175
15. [S OVIET J EWRY ] (R. J UDAH L EIB L EWIN , E DITOR )
S IDDUR HA -S HALOM WITH H AGGADAH FOR P ASSOVER
Montreal Vaad Ha’Ir D’Montreal 1970
479 pp + 31 year calendar., 170:120 mm., Some wear and soiling to
covers, some scribbling on endpapers, and inner hinges shaken. A third
edition of the siddur first composed by Rabbi Solomon Schliefer, former
rabbi of Moscow. See full description of item above. This little
known edition was printed in Montreal in 1970 as a sign of solidarity
“with our brethren in the Soviet Union”. It is the same as the previous
item except it is physically about half the size and has a 31 year calendar
at the end. [ref: 16969 ]
£175
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16.
S CHILLER , S M- (S CHILLER -S ZINESSY )
"B EFÖRDERT DAS W OL DES
V ATERLANDES !" : P REDIGT
ÜBER J EREMIAS 29,7 ZUR
G EBURTSFEIER S R . M AJESTÄT
... K ÖNIGS F ERDINAND V.,
K AISERS VON O ESTERREICH ,
ETC . AM ‫ פסח חג אסרו‬5606 (19.
A PRIL 1846) /
Leipzig Fritzsche 1846
Wrappers, 20cm, 15 + (1) pp. Text in
German. Worldcat lists 2 copies Yale and
Bibliotheca Albertina (Univ of Lepizig).
Foxed. The sermon relates to the verse
in Jeremiah which is seen as source for
the prayer for the king or rulers of the
land Jews inhabit. The author later
became the Jewish Reader in Talmudic
and Rabbinic Literature at the University
of Cambridge. [ref: 16940 ]
£175
17. W ISTRICH , R OBERT S. M USLIM
A NTI -S EMITISM : A C LEAR AND
P RESENT D ANGER New York The
American Jewish Committee 2002
Original wrappers, 23 cm., 57 p., text in
English, illustrated with examples of antisemitic propaganda in Arab media. Robert
Wistrich was one of the most prolific writers
on anti-Semitism. Very good condition.
[ref: 16953 ]
£25
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18.
L ORD A NNAN .
A NTI -S EMITISM - Z IONISM T HE L INK . A R EPORT OF THE
1984 L ONDON AND O XFORD
S YMPOSIUM .
London Centre for Contemporary
Studies 1984
Original wrappers, 21cm, 32 pp, very
good condition.
[ref: 8328]
£25
19.
B OARD OF D EPU TIES OF
B RITISH J EWS O PINIONS OF F OREIGN
E XPERTS ON THE J EWISH M ETHO D OF
S LAUGHTERING A NIMALS - P AMPHLET
NO 2
London The Board of Deputies of British Jews c
1914
Original wrappers, 25cm 39pp. Marked proof confidential. Contains quotations from 457
foreign experts. The full texts from which these
quotations were taken was in a German booklet
published in 1908 by Dr Hirsch Hildersheimer.
Good. [ref: 7095]
£120
20.
J ÜDISCHEN G EMEINDE
L UZERN . - G EBETS O RDNUNG IN DER S YNAGOGE
DER J ÜDISCHEN G EMEINDE
L UZERN
Luzern D. Lande 1946
Original wrappers, 21.5cm, 21 pp, very
good condition. Text in German and
Hebrew. [ref: 7110]
£65
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