![Unique 19th Century Painted Wooden Torah Case (Tik) [WITH] Torah scroll and Ornaments. n/a](/pictures/thumb/42292.jpg?v=1527021864)
Bagdad: ca 1870. Manuscript. 38.5" in height. Hand painted with calligraphy and clad in silver at the top. The wooden case is decorated with floral motifs below the pounded silver at the top (keter torah "crown") and its base. A dated inscription in Hebrew is painted onto the front accompanied..... More
![Statut de Kalisz (Statut de Kaliski) [THE STATUTE OF KALISZ]. Arthur Szyk](/pictures/thumb/44855.jpg?v=1650666848)
Paris: F. Bruchman for Editions de la Table Ronde, 1932. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/50 (estimated extant). Copy "#156 of 500" (planned). Folio. Complete with 48 leaves (47 leaves, plus 1 blank). 15 x 12.5". Blue buckram boards with red label printed in gilt pasted on the spine. Illustrated paper bookplate..... More
[Toledo]: 1572. Manuscript. Small folio. 12 1/4 x 8 1/4". 8 double-sided vellum manuscript leaves originally bound together (now unbound), hand painted and decorated in blue, red and gilt, at various points throughout the text. The first page is hand-painted and decorated along the edge and includes a large decorative..... More
Kielce: NP, 1946. First edition. Broadside. The sheet is a 15'' x 12 1/4" broadside printed and distributed on July 5th, immediately following the infamous Kielce Pogrom on July 4th 1946. The appeal for calm and peace in the city was called for by a named group of seven local..... More
Jerusalem: 1929. Broadsides. These proclamations, which would have been posted publicly at the time, specifically discuss the violence that broke out, starting on Friday August 23 1929, in Jerusalem, and the massacres and unrest that took place in the following days in Hebron and elsewhere in Palestine. The Hebron massacre..... More
France: U.S. Seventh Army, 1945. Hardcover. Collection of five items documenting the April 4th 1945 Passover Seder organized in France for the Jewish soldiers by U.S. Seventh Army Lieutenant Colonel Chaplain Max A. Braude. 1) Braude's typed letter, addressed to "Darling" and dated Friday Afternoon 23 March 1945 enthusiastically recounts..... More
![The Szyk Haggadah, Premier Edition [WITH AN ADDITION BOX OF SZYK MATERIAL]. Arthur Szyk](/pictures/thumb/46649.jpg?v=1631921573)
Burlingame, CA: Historicana/Irvin Unger, 2008. Limited Premier Edition. Hardcover. 1/85. 95pp. [1]. Housed in a red cloth clamshell box, with blue leather and gilt lettering on the front cover. Haggadah bound in gorgeous blue and red leather with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Also housed in the clamshell..... More
London: Printed for and by L. Alexander, 5566 [1806]. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 5pp. [5 un-numbered pages], leaves 1-6, 4pp., leaf 7, 4pp., leaves 8-14, 2pp., leaf 15, 2pp., leaves 16-20, 2pp., leaf 21, [5 pages], 3pp., 3pp., 2pp. Interleaved throughout the pagination with a total of 8 un-numbered plates..... More
(London): Office of the U.S. Special Counsel, 1945. Softcover. Small thin folio.13x8". 10pp. Original mimeographed and stapled pages. This important historical document is a direct translation from Rudolf Kastner's sworn affidavit, recorded September 13, 1945 in London, providing a detailed account of the events relating the Holocaust in Hungary, the..... More
![Be-Gerush Kafrisin (Exile in Cyprus) [SCARCE ALBUM OF 26 LINOCUTS, SIGNED & INSCRIBED]. n/a](/pictures/thumb/48695.jpg?v=1630954433)
Cyprus: n.p., ca. 1948. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/120. Elephant folio. 19x14.5". Unpaginated. 29 single-sided printed leaves. Half tan cloth over illustrated tan paper boards, with black lettering on the front cover. The work is an extremely scarce album containing a total of 26 plates of b/w linocut prints created..... More
London: Facsimile Editions, 1989. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500 copies. The Rothschild Miscellany was commissioned by Moses ben Yekuthiel Hakohen in 1479. It was a time when the Jews in Italy came into contact with all sectors of society and many adopted the way of life of the gentile aristocracy. They..... More
Budapest: Stemmer Ödön/ Omike Mübarátok Köre, 1924. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/300. Quarto. 10.5 x7.5". 115pp. [1]. Dark green soft leather-covered stiff wrappers, with gilt-stamped illustration on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt. #17 from a limited first edition of 300 copies, numbered and..... More
Wels, Austria: NP, 1945. First edition. Pamphlet. Large quartos. 16, 16, 16, 20, 26, 4, 2pp. Mimographed staple-bound typescript pamphlets. First issue reproduced in facsimile. This scarce weekly journal was produced by liberated Hungarian holocaust survivors at the Alpenjäger camp in Wels, Austria, in the summer of 1945. Printed in..... More
Budapest: NP, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Folio. Unpaginated. [16]pp. Original printed wrappers. Extremely rare document published by the Jewish community of Pest for commemorating Raoul Wallenberg's life saving activities during the Holocaust in Hungary. This work contains an official letter to Wallenberg dated July 2, 1945, and the extract of..... More
Facsimile Editions, n/d. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 1/360. Smooth, dark-brown calf with 23-carat gold-tooled edges and cover medallion (Jacob's Dream framed by a escutcheon of bees from a former owner, the Barberini family); gold and blind-tooling on spine. Companion volume bound in white vellum. Seated within leather-edged slip-case covered in..... More
N.P. Published by the Bricha movement, circa 1948. Softcover. Oblong quarto. 9.5x13.5". Unpaginated. Housed in a custom brown leather over marbled paper clamshell box, with gilt lettering on the spine. Original photo-illustrated tan paper wrappers, with black lettering. Signed by Ephraim Dekel in pen, in Yiddish, at the top of..... More
Bordeaux: Pierre Calamy, [1721]. First edition. Hardcover. 24mo (6 1/4 x 4"). 88, 8pp. Modern half calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Modern endpapers and fly leaves. Woodblock frontispiece and title page. Decorative headpieces. Rare "Almanach des Dieux" (Almanach of the Gods) for the year..... More
![The Ganze Megillah (Scroll of Esther) [SIGNED]. Avner Moriah, Izzy Pludwinsky, calligrapher](/pictures/thumb/43036.jpg?v=1503966640)
Jerusalem: Avner Moriah, 2017. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Oblong Folio. 15x21.5". Beige clamshell box. Illustrated ceramic tile with gilt overlays and gold-brown lettering, mounted in a debossed cutout on the front cover. The box houses an illustrated leporello of the Book of Esther. This "Ganze Megilah", contains the entire..... More
Jerusalem: Artworks Israel, 2003. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/360. Two volumes housed in a light beige cloth slipcase. 1.Haggadah: Small folio. 59 unpaginated double-sided unopened French fold leaves. Brown leather boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Illustrated debossed cutout on the front cover. Black ribbon marker. 2. "English Translation..... More
Budapest: 1944. Remarkable collection of four documents related to the attempts to save the Hungarian Jews: 1.) Immigration-certificate to Palestine issued by the department of foreign citizens at the Swiss consulate in Budapest. Certificate in the name of Petö Róbert and his family. Document bearing the stamp of the Swiss consulate..... More
Berchtesgaden: NP, 1937. Original document. Loose leaf. Quarto. Remarkable one page order by Adolf Hitler on official, printed letterhead, blind-stamped with German Eagle and Swastika. The text of the document: "I release the Professor Dr. Friedrich Brie, based on article 4 of the academy-teacher-law of January 21st, 1935 – RGBL..... More
Israel: 1945. Hardcover. Oblong octavos. 8 1/4x 12 3/4". A combined total of 415 single-sided leaves (mostly unpaginated). Bound in modern 3/4 brown cloth over tan mottled paper boards. Notebook #1: 60 unpaginated leaves. Notebook #2: 37 unpaginated leaves. Notebook #3: 61 paginated leaves. Notebook #4: 34 paginated leaves. Notebook..... More
Warsaw: "Ksiazka ! Sztuka" Publishers, 1919. First trade edition. Softcover. Oblong Octavo. Unpaginated (32pp.). Original illustrated light brown string bound wraps with brown lettering on cover, illustrations on front and back cover. Illustrated title page. Rare satirical illustrations of anti-German work by Szyk with powerful lyrical text by Szyk's close..... More
Cincinnati: Bloch & Co., 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 263pp. Period burgundy cloth boards with blind-stamped tooling and ruling on the covers, gilt lettering and tooling on the spine. Edges of book block gilt. Published as the final piece of his magnum opus project for American-Jewish liturgy titled "Minhag America"..... More
Avignon: Antoine Offray, 1781. Original document. Broadside. Elephant folio (14 6/8 x 34 6/8"). Large engraved seal (3 6/8 x 2 6/8") of the Avignon archdiocese at upper margin. Broadside framed in a 17 1/2 x 37 1/2" wooden frame manufactured by Mori, in Hollywood. This original 18th-Century anti-Semitic broadside..... More