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(7), 446, (6).  \n  * bound with:  solomon de olivera\u2019s calendario. pp. 16, with all three folding tables. (1726). \n  \n contemporary gilt-ruled straight-grain red morocco uniform straight-grain morocco, spine neatly repaired, all edges gilt and gauffered. 8vo. housed in custom clamshell box.  \n vinograd, amsterdam 1292.  \n  \n amsterdam, for samuel rodrigues mendes, moses sarfati and david gomes da silva, 1726.","he":"תנ״ך. \n \n  \n \n \n (עברית, חומש והפטרות). תיקון סופרים - quinque libri mosis. \n \n \n  \n \n \n שישה כרכים כרוכים בכרך אחד. שער תחריט בסגנון רוקוקו מאת ברנרד פיקאר, המתאר פוטי התומכים בספר תורה פתוח ובכתר מעליו, ומתחתיהם וינייטות המתארות סצנות מקראיות מחייהם של שמואל, משה ודוד. בכרך הראשון שער דפוס בספרדית ובעברית. לספר ההפטרות שער תחריט נפרד מאת פיקאר. דף (7), 446, (6). \n \n \n  \n \n \n כרוך עם: לוח השנה (calendario) מאת שלמה די אוליביירה. עמ' 16, עם שלוש הטבלאות המתקפלות בשלמותן. 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ציר אחד הכרכים מתחיל להיפתח. 8vo עבה. \n \n \n  \n \n \n וינוגרד, רעדלהיים 71. \n \n \n  \n \n \n רעדלהיים, וולף היידנהיים, 1818\u201321. \n \n \n  \n \n \n המהדורה הראשונה מתוך ארבע מהדורות של החומש שהוציא היידנהיים בין השנים 1818\u20131821. \n \n \n  \n \n \n וולף היידנהיים (1757\u20131832), תלמידו של ר׳ נתן אדלר בפרנקפורט, קנה לו שם כאחד המדקדקים וחוקרי המסורה הקפדניים והמדויקים ביותר, וכן כאחד המדפיסים העבריים המעולים ביותר. \n \n \n  \n \n \n עותק נאה במיוחד."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"10","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123021/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":2500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":2600,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T17:05:19.051Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$3,000 - $5,000","currency":"USD","id":123021,"category":{"en":"Hebrew Printed Books","he":"ספרים מודפסים בעברית"},"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":600,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123022/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123022/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"bible.  \n    \n  *  (chumash & haphtaroth). ein hasofer. prepared by wolf heidenheim. with commentary ezrath hasofer and vavei ha\u2019amudim. including sabbath day prayers. complete in five volumes.  \n  \n  * with:  with another copy, complete in one volume.  \n  \n  * and:  (chumash & haphtaroth). another edition prepared by wolf heidenheim: torath moshe. with commentary minchah chadashah by meir kalov. complete in five volumes.  \n  \n together, three sets, two differing editions, in a total of eleven volumes. contemporary and modern bindings. 8vo.  \n  \n vinograd, r&ouml;delheim 71 and 75. \n  \n r&ouml;delheim, wolf heidenheim, 1818-21.","he":"תנ״ך. \n \n  \n \n \n (חומש והפטרות). עין הסופר. הוכן על־ידי וולף היידנהיים. עם הפירושים עזרת הסופר וווי העמודים. כולל תפילות ליום השבת. שלם בחמישה כרכים. \n \n \n  \n \n \n עם: עותק נוסף, שלם בכרך אחד. \n \n \n  \n \n \n וכן: (חומש והפטרות). מהדורה נוספת שהוכנה על־ידי וולף היידנהיים: תורת משה. עם הפירוש מנחה חדשה מאת מאיר קלוב. שלם בחמישה כרכים. \n \n \n  \n \n \n יחד, שלוש מערכות, בשתי מהדורות שונות, בסך הכול אחד־עשר כרכים. כריכות מקוריות ומאוחרות. 8vo. \n \n \n וינוגרד, רעדלהיים 71 ו־75. \n \n \n  \n \n \n רעדלהיים, וולף היידנהיים, 1818\u201321."},"estimateMax":1800,"lotNumber":"11","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123022/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":600,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":650,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T17:05:49.106Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,200 - $1,800","currency":"USD","id":123022,"category":{"en":"Hebrew Printed Books","he":"ספרים מודפסים בעברית"},"estimateMin":1200},{"startPrice":30000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123023/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123023/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123023/005/005.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123023/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123023/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"bible.  \n  \n (hebrew). chamishah chumshei torah [-end] \n  \n with nikud and cantillation points. four parts in one volume. four divisional titles. opening word of each book within decorative woodcut border. a fine wide margined copy.  \n  the estelle doheny copy.  \n    \n 530 leaves including all blanks as issued. burn hole in last six leaves affecting some text; 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(10), 87, 97. contemporary calf, rubbed. large 4to. \n  \n munkacz, kohn and klein, 1899. \n  \n r. salomon (shlomo zalman) breuer (1850-1926) married sophie, the youngest daughter of rabbiner samson raphael hirsch (1808-88). after receiving semichah from the kesav sofer in pressburg, r. breuer was appointed rabbi of papa, hungary. in 1890 he succeeded his recently deceased father-in-law as the rabbi of frankfurt\u2019s austrittsgemeinde (secessioned community), thus becoming in essence, the titular head of german orthodoxy.  \n  \n among his sons, rabbi yosef (1882-1980), would lead the frankfurt community after him, later, facilitating its transition to washington heights, new york. another son, isaac (1883-1946), was a fiery ideologue, who, upon moving to jerusalem, served as the first president of the poalei agudath yisroel.  \n  \n the author of this work (1822-99), was rabbi of nanash, hungary, and a prime disciple of the chasam sofer, the yismach moshe and r. chaim sanzer. - rabbi salomon breuer studied in pressburg under the kesav sofer and was thus well acquainted with many of the disciples of the chasam sofer.  \n  \n  lot accompanied by:  four additional volumes, each with stamp of r. yosef breuer (1882-1980).","he":"(ברויאר, שלמה). \n \n  \n \n \n ישראל אפרים פישל סופר. אפסי ארץ על התורה [פירוש על ספרי בראשית ושמות]. \n \n \n  \n \n \n מהדורה ראשונה. מהדורה מוגבלת (ראה הקדמה). שני שערים. השער הראשון בדפוס זהב. \n \n \n  \n \n \n עותקו של הרב ד״ר שלמה ברויאר, עם הקדשת המחבר המוטבעת בזהב על המכסה העליון: ״מנחה שלוחה להרב הגאון הצדיק\u2026 שלמה ברויאר״. וכן עם חותמתו ״dr. s. b.״ בשער. \n \n \n דף (10), 87, 97. כריכת עור מקורית מן התקופה, משופשפת. 4to גדול. \n \n \n  \n \n \n מונקאטש, קאהן וקליין, 1899. \n \n \n  \n \n \n רבי שלמה זלמן (סלומון) ברויאר (1850\u20131926) נשא לאישה את סופי, בתו הצעירה של הרב שמשון רפאל הירש (1808\u20131888). לאחר שקיבל סמיכה מן הכתב סופר בפרשבורג, נתמנה לרב העיר פאפּא שבהונגריה. בשנת 1890 ירש את מקומו של חמיו כרבה של קהילת ה״אויסטריטסגעמיינדע״ בפרנקפורט, ובכך נעשה למעשה למנהיגה הרוחני של האורתודוקסיה הגרמנית. \n \n \n  \n \n \n מבין בניו, רבי יוסף ברויאר (1882\u20131980) הנהיג אחריו את קהילת פרנקפורט, ולאחר מכן עמד בראש העברתה לוושינגטון הייטס שבניו יורק. בן נוסף, יצחק ברויאר (1883\u20131946), היה אידאולוג לוחמני, ולאחר עלייתו לירושלים שימש כנשיא הראשון של פועלי אגודת ישראל. \n \n \n  \n \n \n מחבר הספר (1822\u20131899) היה רבה של נאנאש שבהונגריה, ומתלמידיהם המובהקים של החתם סופר, הישמח משה ורבי חיים מצאנז. רבי שלמה ברויאר למד בפרשבורג אצל הכתב סופר, ועל כן הכיר היטב רבים מתלמידי החתם סופר. \n \n \n  \n \n \n לפריט מצורפים: ארבעה כרכים נוספים, כל אחד עם חותמתו של רבי יוסף ברויאר (1882\u20131980)."},"estimateMax":900,"lotNumber":"72","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123083/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":550,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T17:43:30.179Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$600 - 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(lemberg), 1868.  \n  *  chiddushei mahartza on chanukah (moshe shapira). premyshel, 1886. signatures of raphael stern of satmar, 1906 and yisrael aryeh ravitz.  \n  *  si\u2019ach eliezer hachadash, eliezer of yamapol, first admor of skolye. munkatch, 1897. bereishis - vayikra.  \n  *  metzach aharon. aharon walkin, shanghai, 1946.","he":"(חסידות). \n \n  \n \n \n קבוצה של אחד־עשר ספרים מספרייתו של רבי דוד יצחק אייזיק רבינוביץ, \n \n \n האדמו״ר מסקוליה (1898\u20131979). \n \n \n כולל: \n \n \n  \n \n \n לב אהרן, אהרן אבן חיים. ונציה, די גארה, 1609. עם חתימתו של יוסף ויינברגר. חסר. \n \n \n  \n \n \n תהילים מיניאטורי. אמסטרדם, מנדס קויטיניו, בערך 1700. עם תוספות רבות בכתב־יד (תחינות, קרבנות הנשיאים ועוד). \n \n \n  \n \n \n (הגאון מווילנא). מעשה רב. למברג, גרוסמן, 1833. כרוך עם דרכי ישרים (רבי שמעלקא מניקלשבורג), שיר השירים עברית־יידיש, פרקי אבות ועוד. \n \n \n  \n \n \n קינות לתשעה באב, עם פירושי בית לוי ומטה לוי. וילנא, מאן וזימל, 1844. עם חותמות הירש בן זיסמן. \n \n \n  \n \n \n שולחן ערוך הרב, כרך ג׳ (עירובין ויום טוב). יוזפוף, וואקס, 1855. חתימת שרגא פייבל בן ברוך הלוי. \n \n \n  \n \n \n מדרש תלפיות, אליהו הכהן. טשערנוביץ, אקהרדט, 1860. \n \n \n  \n \n \n קול יעקב על חמש מגילות. ורשה, קעלטער, 1865. \n \n \n  \n \n \n בני יששכר, צבי אלימלך מדינוב. 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monsey.","he":"(חסידות). \n \n  \n \n \n מכל קטן של דבש שנתברך על־ידי: \n \n \n  \n \n \n האדמו״ר רבי ישעיה יעקב פורטוגל מסקולען. \n \n \n רבי מרדכי צבי שטיינר מבית מרדכי. \n \n \n האדמו״ר רבי ישראל רוזנבוים מסטניסלב \u2014 מונסי."},"estimateMax":400,"lotNumber":"85","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123096/view","tags":["usjudaica_amulets","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":100,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":100,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T17:52:57.834Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$200 - $400","currency":"USD","id":123096,"category":{"en":"Hebrew Manuscripts & Autograph Letters","he":"כתבי יד עבריים ומכתבים חתומים"},"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":100,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123097/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(chassidism).  \n  \n (grand rebbe of tosh, 1921-2015). r. meshilem feish segal lowy.  \n  \n matbe\u2019ah kodesh - 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american coin (25 cents) blessed by  the spinka rebbe  and received directly from his hand, chanukah, 1993.  \n  \n admor shmuel tzvi horowitz, the spinka rebbe of williamsburg, affectionately known as \"reb hershele spinker\" was the son of admor avrohom abish horowitz, the rebbe of krula.","he":"(חסידות). \n \n  \n \n \n מטבע קודש \u2014 מטבע אמריקאי (25 סנט) שנתברך על־ידי האדמו״ר מספינקא והתקבל ישירות מידו, חנוכה תשנ״ד [1993]. \n \n \n  \n \n \n האדמו״ר רבי שמואל צבי הורוביץ, האדמו״ר מספינקא בוויליאמסבורג, שנודע בחיבה בשם ״ר׳ הערשעלע ספינקער״, היה בנו של האדמו״ר רבי אברהם אביש הורוביץ, האדמו״ר מקרולה."},"estimateMax":400,"lotNumber":"87","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123098/view","tags":["usjudaica_amulets","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":100,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":125,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T17:54:03.092Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$200 - $400","currency":"USD","id":123098,"category":{"en":"Hebrew Manuscripts & Autograph Letters","he":"כתבי יד עבריים ומכתבים חתומים"},"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":450,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123099/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(chassidism).  \n  \n matbe'ah kodesh. \n struck from coins received from:  \n  \n 1. r. yoelish of satmar. 2. r. itzikel of pshevorsk. 3. r. yankele of pshevorsk. 4. r. moshe aryeh freund ('ateres yehoshua.') 5. the noam eliezer of skulen. 6. r. chanina avrohom leitner of montevideo.","he":"(חסידות). \n \n  \n \n \n מטבע קודש. \n \n \n הוטבע ממטבעות שהתקבלו מאת: \n \n \n  \n \n \n רבי יואליש מסאטמר. \n \n \n רבי איציקל מפשעווארסק. \n \n \n רבי יענקלה מפשעווארסק. \n \n \n רבי משה אריה פריינד (בעל ״עטרת יהושע״). \n \n \n בעל ״נועם אליעזר״ מסקולען. \n \n \n רבי חנינא אברהם לייטנר ממונטווידאו."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"88","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123099/view","tags":["usjudaica_amulets","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":450,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":450,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T17:54:33.155Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,000 - 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from the word kavanah, or meditations.  \n  \n the founder of this method of prayer, the venerated yemenite mystic r. shalom sharabi (the rasha\u2019sh, 1720-77) is said to have been the reincarnation of the ar'i z\u2019l. the rasha\u2019sh led the extraordinary kabbalistic circle in jerusalem known as beth el, where, among his many disciples was the great r. chaim yoseph david azulai (chid'a).  \n  \n this particular siddur is most desired by kabbalists to this day, guiding the mystic how to focus upon the secret intentions sourced within the holy names and the depths of prayer found through the mystic wisdom of kabbalah.","he":"(קבלה). \n \n  \n \n \n שלום (מזרחי) שרעבי. \n \n \n  \n \n \n תפילות ראש השנה ויום הכיפורים [סדר תפילות לימים הנוראים]. \n \n \n  \n \n \n מיוסד על כתבי הקבלה והכוונות של האר״י ז״ל ורבי חיים ויטאל. \n \n \n  \n \n \n כתב־יד עברי, נכתב ביותר מיד אחת בדיו שחורה, באותיות מרובעות עבריות לסירוגין עם כתב מזרחי רהוט. הערות מאוחרות בעיפרון לאורך הספר. \n \n \n  \n \n \n עמ' (218), מלבד דפים חלקים. מעט בלאי. הערות מאוחרות בעיפרון. \n \n \n  \n \n \n (ירושלים, סוף המאה ה־19). \n \n \n  \n \n \n סידור הרש״ש כולל אינספור כוונות קבליות, רבות מהן מסודרות בצורות דיאגרמטיות. דפים שלמים בסידור מוקדשים לכוונות על מילה אחת בלבד. מאחר שנדרש זמן רב לשליח הציבור לכוון בכל אחת מן הכוונות, התפילה באופן זה מתארכת מאוד. העוסקים בדרך תפילה זו נקראים ״מכוונים״ \u2014 מלשון כוונה. \n \n \n  \n \n \n מייסד שיטת תפילה זו, המקובל התימני הנערץ רבי שלום שרעבי (הרש״ש, 1720\u20131777), נחשב לגלגולו של האר״י ז״ל. הרש״ש עמד בראש חבורת המקובלים הנודעת ״בית אל״ בירושלים, ובין תלמידיו היה גם רבי חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי (החיד״א). \n \n \n  \n \n \n סידור זה נחשב עד היום לאחד המבוקשים ביותר בקרב מקובלים, בהיותו מדריך למתפלל כיצד לכוון בסודות השמות הקדושים ובעומקי התפילה על־פי חכמת הקבלה."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"89","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123100/view","tags":["usjudaica_manuscripts","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":1500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":9500,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T17:55:28.117Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$3,000 - 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(36), excluding blanks. lightly browned. later blind tooled morocco boards, gutter split, rebacked, rubbed. sm. 8vo. \n  \n n.p. 18th-century. \n  \n also includes (ff. 35a-36b) a mystical commentary by menachem azariah of fano on the verse: \n יִֽחְי֣וּ מֵתֶ֔יךָ נְבֵֽלָתִ֖י יְקוּמ֑וּן.  \n (isaiah 26:19).  \n  \n both r. yoseph gikatilla and r. menachem azariah of fano were profound kabbalists whose works include some of the most detailed, yet lucid, systematic expositions of kabbalistic concepts. \n gershon scholem (kithvei yad bekabbalah) has no record of any other manuscript of these works.","he":"ג׳יקטיליה, יוסף. \n \n  \n \n \n ספר הניקוד וסוד החשמל \n \n \n [ביאור המשמעות המיסטית של הנקודות; וחיבור על האנרגיה האלוהית כפי שנתגלתה במראות הנביא יחזקאל]. \n \n \n  \n \n \n כתב־יד עברי בכתב אשכנזי רהוט מן המאה ה־18. דיו חומה על נייר. \n \n \n  \n \n \n ספר הניקוד: דפים 1א\u201326ב. \n \n \n סוד החשמל: דפים 27א\u201334ב. \n \n \n דף (36), מלבד דפים חלקים. השחמה קלה. כריכת מרוקו עם הטבעה עיוורת מאוחרת, פיצול בשדרה הפנימית, שוקם והוכנס מחדש לכריכה, משופשף. 8vo קטן. \n \n \n  \n \n \n ללא מקום דפוס, המאה ה־18. \n \n \n  \n \n \n כולל גם (דפים 35א\u201336ב) פירוש קבלי מאת רבי מנחם עזריה מפאנו על הפסוק: \n \n \n ״יִחְיוּ מֵתֶיךָ נְבֵלָתִי יְקוּמוּן״ \n \n \n (ישעיהו כ״ו:י״ט). \n \n \n  \n \n \n רבי יוסף ג׳יקטיליה ורבי מנחם עזריה מפאנו היו מגדולי המקובלים, וחיבוריהם נמנים עם ההצגות השיטתיות, המפורטות והבהירות ביותר של מושגי הקבלה. \n \n \n גרשם שלום (כתבי יד בקבלה) אינו רושם שום כתב־יד אחר של חיבורים אלו."},"estimateMax":1800,"lotNumber":"90","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123101/view","tags":["usjudaica_manuscripts","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":700,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":1700,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T17:55:58.167Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,200 - $1,800","currency":"USD","id":123101,"category":{"en":"Hebrew Manuscripts & Autograph Letters","he":"כתבי יד עבריים ומכתבים חתומים"},"estimateMin":1200},{"startPrice":3000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123102/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123102/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123102/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123102/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"alfasi, yitzchak  \n    \n  (ri\u2019f).  halachic code on talmud tractates baba metzi\u2019ah and baba bathra.  \n  \n hebrew manuscript written in a square oriental hand, with some marginal notes. 13 leaves, 25 long lines. wide margins.  \n five leaves with margins defective and repaired, some corners dog-eared, minor stains. sassoon boards with sassoon ms \u20181136\u2019 at foot. 8.6 x 11 inches (22 x 28 cm). \n  \n oriental, 13th-century. \n  \n  provenance:   \n  \n i. david solomon sassoon (1915-85).  \n see ohel dawid: descriptive catalogue of the hebrew and samaritan manuscripts in the sassoon library (1932) vol. ii, p. 1081.  \n  \n ii. sotheby's london, seventy-six important hebrew and samaritan manuscripts from the library of the late david solomon sassoon, 21st june, 1994, lot 12.  \n  \n isaac ben jacob alfasi (1013-1103) was the most important rabbinic codifier prior to maimonides. he is referred to as the 'rif' derived from the initials of 'rabbi isaac fasi' (fasi, being his residence in fez). he was born at qual' at hammad in algeria and later settled at fez where he remained until 1088 when forced to flee to spain.  \n maimonides refers to him as \"the great rabbi, our teacher isaac, of blessed memory.\u201d","he":"אלפסי, יצחק \n \n  \n \n \n (רי״ף). קובץ הלכות על מסכתות בבא מציעא ובבא בתרא. \n \n \n  \n \n \n כתב־יד עברי בכתב מזרחי מרובע, עם מספר הערות שוליים. 13 דפים, 25 שורות ארוכות בכל עמוד. שוליים רחבים. \n \n \n חמישה דפים עם פגמים בשוליים שתוקנו, מספר פינות מקופלות, כתמים קלים. כריכת ששון עם סימון כתב־יד ״1136״ בתחתית. 8.6 &times; 11 אינץ׳ (22 &times; 28 ס״מ). \n \n \n  \n \n \n מזרח, המאה ה־13. \n \n \n  \n \n \n פרובננס: \n \n \n  \n \n \n i. דוד שלמה ששון (1915\u20131985). \n \n \n ראה: ohel dawid: descriptive catalogue of the hebrew and samaritan manuscripts in the sassoon library (1932), כרך ב׳, עמ' 1081. \n \n \n  \n \n \n ii. סותביס לונדון, seventy-six important hebrew and samaritan manuscripts from the library of the late david solomon sassoon, 21 ביוני 1994, פריט 12. \n \n \n  \n \n \n רבי יצחק בן יעקב אלפסי (1013\u20131103) היה גדול פוסקי ההלכה קודם לרמב״ם. הוא נודע בכינוי ״רי״ף״ \u2014 ראשי תיבות של ״רבי יצחק פאסי״ (על שם העיר פאס שבה התגורר). נולד בקלעת חמאד שבאלג׳יריה ולאחר מכן השתקע בפאס, שם חי עד שנת 1088, אז נאלץ להימלט לספרד. \n \n \n הרמב״ם מכנה אותו: ״הרב הגדול, רבינו יצחק זכרונו לברכה.״"},"estimateMax":9000,"lotNumber":"91","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123102/view","tags":["usjudaica_manuscripts","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":3000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":9500,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T17:56:51.014Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$6,000 - $9,000","currency":"USD","id":123102,"category":{"en":"Hebrew Manuscripts & Autograph Letters","he":"כתבי יד עבריים ומכתבים חתומים"},"estimateMin":6000},{"startPrice":30000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123103/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(bible).  \n  \n single manuscript leaf. exodus (shemoth) chap. 22, verses 4-29. written in hebrew on vellum. large and fine square script with nikkud, small masorah inserted between the columns.  formerly in the cairo genizah.  \n  \n remains of three columns, 17 lines in each.  \n stains, scuffs and folds, with damage to all outer edges, else good and sound condition. early 20th-century conservation including infilling with paper and setting within silk.  \n 335 x 377 mm. \n  \n oriental (persia?), 9th / 10th century. \n  \n  a relic of a monumental early medieval manuscript of the hebrew bible; and, with the exception of the dead sea scrolls -  one of the oldest extant witnesses to the text.  \n  \n exhibited:  \n  \n xvi congress of the international organization for the study of the old testament. faculty of law library, university of oslo, 29 july - 7 august 1998.  \n  \n  provenance:  \n  \n i. the cairo genizah.  \n  \n repository of the jewish community located in the ben ezra synagogue of fustat, was established in 882 ad. in the 12th century the synagogue was the place of worship of moses maimonides. the synagogue\u2019s storehouse of obsolete texts fell into disuse and was forgotten until renovations to the building in 1891 opened the hoard and released some leaves onto the antiquities market.  \n in 1896 the british collector e.n. adler visited the community and acquired some fragments. in the meantime a leaf from the long-lost hebrew version of ecclesiasticus had found its way via the early bible hunters, agnes lewis and margaret gibson, to the cambridge scholar solomon schechter. he mounted a rescue mission later the same year and obtained the remaining 140,000 fragments for cambridge university. \u201cthe discovery captivated public imagination in europe in a way comparable only to the opening of tutankhamen's tomb in 1922.\u201d \n  \n ii. david solomon sassoon (1915-85); acquired in december 1922 (doubtless in the markets of cairo).  \n see d.s. sassoon, ohel dawid: descriptive catalogue of the hebrew and samaritan manuscripts in the sassoon library (1932) vol. i, pp. 27-8. \n  \n iii. sotheby's london, seventy-six important hebrew and samaritan manuscripts from the library of the late david solomon sassoon, 21st june, 1994, lot 1.  \n  \n iv. the sch&oslash;yen collection, ms 1858/3.  \n see https://www.schoyencollection.com/palaeography-collection-introduction/aramaic-hebrew-syriac/4-6-6-hebrew-square/ms-1858-3  \n  \n v. sotheby\u2019s london, the history of script: sixty important manuscript leaves from the schoyen collection, 10th july 2012, lot 11 (lot sold: &pound;43,250).  \n  \n  text:  \n  \n the leaf rivals in date, or even predates, the earliest hebrew biblical codices of the 9th or 10th century, such as the surviving parts of the aleppo codex (c. 920, now jerusalem, shrine of the book), the damascus pentateuch (c. 1000, also jerusalem, hebrew university), the st. petersberg codex (dated 1008/09, now national library of russia, ms. b19a), british library (or. 4445, pentateuch only, 10th-century), and the near complete 9th- or 10th-century codex, also ex-sassoon, sold sotheby\u2019s, 5th december 1989, lot 69, (for &pound;2,035,000).  \n these are the earliest witnesses to the format of the text as selected by aaron ben-asher (d. c. 960) in tiberias, modern palestine. the resulting text was accepted by maimonides as the most accurate, and remains in use until today.","he":"(תנ״ך). \n \n  \n \n \n דף כתב־יד בודד. ספר שמות, פרק כ״ב, פסוקים ד׳\u2013כ״ט. כתוב בעברית על קלף. כתב מרובע גדול ונאה עם ניקוד, ומסורה קטנה משולבת בין הטורים. לשעבר בגניזת קהיר. \n \n \n  \n \n \n שרידים משלושה טורים, 17 שורות בכל טור. \n \n \n  \n \n \n כתמים, שפשופים וקיפולים, עם פגיעות בכל השוליים החיצוניים, אך מלבד זאת במצב טוב ויציב. שימור מראשית המאה ה־20, כולל השלמות נייר והטמעה בתוך משי. \n \n \n 335 &times; 377 מ״מ. \n \n \n  \n \n \n מזרח (פרס?), המאה ה־9 / 10. \n \n \n  \n \n \n שריד מונומנטלי של כתב־יד מקראי מוקדם מימי הביניים; ומלבד מגילות ים המלח \u2014 אחד העדים הקדומים ביותר ששרדו לנוסח המקרא. \n \n \n  \n \n \n הוצג ב: \n \n \n  \n \n \n הקונגרס ה־xvi של הארגון הבינלאומי לחקר התנ״ך (iosot), ספריית הפקולטה למשפטים, אוניברסיטת אוסלו, 29 ביולי \u2013 7 באוגוסט 1998. \n \n \n  \n \n \n פרובננס: \n \n \n  \n \n \n i. גניזת קהיר. \n \n \n  \n \n \n מחסן כתבי הקודש של הקהילה היהודית בבית הכנסת בן עזרא בפוסטאט, שנוסד בשנת 882 לספירה. במאה ה־12 שימש בית הכנסת כמקום תפילתו של הרמב״ם. מחסן כתבי היד יצא מכלל שימוש ונשכח, עד ששיפוצים שנערכו בשנת 1891 חשפו את האוצר וגרמו להפצת חלק מן הדפים בשוק העתיקות. \n \n \n בשנת 1896 ביקר האספן הבריטי א״נ אדלר בקהילה ורכש מספר קטעים. באותה עת הגיע דף מן הנוסח העברי האבוד של ספר בן סירא, דרך החוקרות אגנס לואיס ומרגרט גיבסון, אל החוקר שלמה שכטר מקיימברידג׳. שכטר יצא באותה שנה למסע הצלה והשיג עבור אוניברסיטת קיימברידג׳ את יתרת 140,000 הקטעים. ״הגילוי שבה את דמיונו של הציבור האירופי באופן שניתן להשוותו רק לפתיחת קבר תות ענח׳אמון בשנת 1922.״ \n \n \n  \n \n \n ii. דוד שלמה ששון (1915\u20131985); נרכש בדצמבר 1922 (ככל הנראה בשווקי קהיר). \n \n \n ראה: ד״ש ששון, אוהל דוד: קטלוג תיאורי של כתבי היד העבריים והשומרוניים בספריית ששון (1932), כרך א׳, עמ' 27\u201328. \n \n \n  \n \n \n iii. סותביס לונדון, seventy-six important hebrew and samaritan manuscripts from the library of the late david solomon sassoon, 21 ביוני 1994, פריט 1. \n \n \n  \n \n \n iv. אוסף שויין, כתב־יד 1858/3. \n \n \n ראה: \n \n \n https://www.schoyencollection.com/palaeography-collection-introduction/aramaic-hebrew-syriac/4-6-6-hebrew-square/ms-1858-3 \n \n \n  \n \n \n v. סותביס לונדון, the history of script: sixty important manuscript leaves from the schoyen collection, 10 ביולי 2012, פריט 11 (נמכר ב־&pound;43,250). \n \n \n  \n \n \n הטקסט: \n \n \n  \n \n \n דף זה מקביל בתאריכו \u2014 ואולי אף קדום יותר \u2014 לכתבי היד המקראיים הקדומים ביותר מן המאה ה־9 או ה־10, כגון שרידי כתר ארם צובה (בערך 920, כיום בהיכל הספר בירושלים), חומש דמשק (בערך 1000, האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים), כתר סנקט פטרבורג (מתוארך 1008/09, כיום בספרייה הלאומית של רוסיה, כתב־יד b19a), כתב־היד של הספרייה הבריטית or. 4445 (חומש בלבד, המאה ה־10), וכן הקודקס הכמעט שלם מן המאה ה־9 או ה־10, אף הוא מאוסף ששון, שנמכר בסותביס ב־5 בדצמבר 1989, פריט 69 (&pound;2,035,000). \n \n \n  \n \n \n אלו הם העדים הקדומים ביותר לנוסח המקרא כפי שנקבע בידי אהרן בן אשר (נפטר בערך 960) בטבריה. נוסח זה התקבל בידי הרמב״ם כמדויק ביותר, והוא הנוסח הנהוג עד ימינו."},"estimateMax":90000,"lotNumber":"92","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123103/view","tags":["usjudaica_manuscripts","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":30000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":57500,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T17:58:55.375Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$60,000 - $90,000","currency":"USD","id":123103,"category":{"en":"Hebrew Manuscripts & Autograph Letters","he":"כתבי יד עבריים ומכתבים חתומים"},"estimateMin":60000},{"startPrice":25000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123105/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123105/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123105/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123105/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"moshe ben maimon  \n  \n  (ramba\u2019m / maimonides).  mishneh torah - sepher mishpatim & sepher kinyan [code of jewish law]. \n  \n hebrew manuscript,  yemenite semi-cursive hand written in black ink on paper.  \n text comprises: sepher mishpatim and sepher kinyan, lacking only hilchoth melachim 3:9-5:5, 7:3-12:12; and hilkhoth mechira 1:1-12:8, 28:7- 30:2.  \n ff. 116. corners rounded, few wormholes, some staining and occasional expert paper repairs with minimal loss of text. modern blind-tooled morocco, with slipcase. sm. folio. \n  \n yemen, 14th century.  \n  \n  provenance:  \n  \n i. the brilliant maimonides scholar, r. yosef kapach (1917-2000).  \n  \n ii. sold at sotheby\u2019s new york, important judaica, 4th december, 2014, lot 101.  \n  \n moses maimonides (1135\u20131204) was the most illustrious figure in judaism in the post-talmudic era. referred to as ramba'm (an acronym for rabbi moses ben maimon), maimonides, was born in cordoba, spain but was forced to flee in 1148 as a result of religious persecution. maimonides eventually settled in egypt, where he was named court physician to al-qadi al-fadil. in 1177 he was recognized as the official head of the fostat jewish community. it was during this exceptionally productive period of his life he wrote the two monumental works upon which his fame chiefly rests, the mishneh torah (c. 1180) and the guide to the perplexed (c. 1190).  \n  \n the yemenite origin of this manuscript is significant as maimonides maintained a special relationship with the jews of yemen. when a false messiah arose, existentially threatening the survival of the yemeni jewish community, they turned in their hour of need to maimonides, who replied in a consolatory epistle entitled iggeret teiman. this literary tour de force not only inspired the jews to withstand the current crisis; it left an indelible impression on the yemenite jews and afforded maimonides a nearly saint-like status in their eyes. this led, even in maimonides lifetime, to widespread promulgation and copying of the sage\u2019s written works among yemenite jews.  \n these early yemenite manuscripts provide us with the most authoritative and most accurate versions of the rambam\u2019s words.  \n  \n the late rabbi yosef kapach was one of the foremost leaders of the yemenite jewish community, first in yemen and later in israel. he is best known for his editions and translations of the works of maimonides, primarily his restoration of the mishnah torah from ancient manuscripts. his personal collection of antique manuscripts of maimonides\u2019 works, from which this volume emanates, is legendary.","he":"משה בן מימון \n \n  \n \n \n (רמב״ם / מיימונידס). משנה תורה \u2014 ספר משפטים וספר קניין [קודקס הלכתי]. \n \n \n  \n \n \n כתב־יד עברי בכתב תימני חצי־רהוט, בדיו שחורה על נייר. \n \n \n הטקסט כולל: ספר משפטים וספר קניין, וחסרים ממנו רק הלכות מלכים ג׳:ט׳\u2013ה׳:ה׳, ז׳:ג׳\u2013י״ב:י״ב; וכן הלכות מכירה א׳:א׳\u2013י״ב:ח׳, כ״ח:ז׳\u2013ל׳:ב׳. \n \n \n דף 116. פינות מעוגלות, מספר חורי תילוע, כתמים ותיקוני נייר מקצועיים קלים עם חיסרון מזערי בטקסט. כריכת מרוקו מודרנית עם הטבעה עיוורת, עם קופסת מגן. פוליו קטן. \n \n \n  \n \n \n תימן, המאה ה־14. \n \n \n  \n \n \n פרובננס: \n \n \n  \n \n \n i. גדול חוקרי הרמב״ם, רבי יוסף קאפח (1917\u20132000). \n \n \n  \n \n \n ii. נמכר בסותביס ניו יורק, important judaica, 4 בדצמבר 2014, פריט 101. \n \n \n  \n \n \n רבי משה בן מימון (1135\u20131204) היה הדמות היהודית החשובה ביותר בתקופה שלאחר חתימת התלמוד. הרמב״ם \u2014 ראשי תיבות של רבי משה בן מימון \u2014 נולד בקורדובה שבספרד, אך נאלץ לברוח בשנת 1148 בעקבות רדיפות דתיות. לבסוף השתקע במצרים, שם נתמנה לרופא החצר של אל־קאדי אל־פאצ׳ל. בשנת 1177 הוכר כמנהיגה הרשמי של קהילת פוסטאט היהודית. בתקופה פורייה זו כתב את שני חיבוריו המונומנטליים שעליהם נשען עיקר פרסומו: משנה תורה (בערך 1180) ומורה נבוכים (בערך 1190). \n \n \n  \n \n \n למוצאו התימני של כתב־יד זה חשיבות מיוחדת, שכן לרמב״ם היה קשר ייחודי עם יהודי תימן. כאשר קם משיח שקר שאיים על עצם קיומה של הקהילה התימנית, פנו יהודי תימן אל הרמב״ם בשעת מצוקתם, והוא השיב להם באיגרת תנחומים הידועה בשם איגרת תימן. חיבור מזהיר זה לא רק חיזק את רוחם לעמוד במשבר, אלא גם הותיר רושם עמוק ובל יימחה על יהודי תימן, עד שהרמב״ם זכה אצלם למעמד כמעט קדוש. בעקבות זאת נפוצו והועתקו כתביו של הרמב״ם בהיקף נרחב בקרב יהודי תימן כבר בימי חייו. \n \n \n כתבי־יד תימניים מוקדמים אלו מספקים לנו את הנוסחים הסמכותיים והמדויקים ביותר לדברי הרמב״ם. \n \n \n  \n \n \n רבי יוסף קאפח המנוח היה מן המנהיגים הבולטים של יהדות תימן, תחילה בתימן ולאחר מכן בארץ ישראל. הוא נודע בעיקר בזכות מהדורותיו ותרגומיו לכתבי הרמב״ם, ובמיוחד בזכות מפעלו לשחזור נוסח משנה תורה מתוך כתבי־יד עתיקים. אוספו האישי של כתבי־יד קדומים של חיבורי הרמב״ם, שממנו הגיע כרך זה, נחשב לאגדי."},"estimateMax":40000,"lotNumber":"94","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123105/view","tags":["usjudaica_manuscripts","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":25000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":40000,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:04:37.859Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$30,000 - $40,000","currency":"USD","id":123105,"category":{"en":"Hebrew Manuscripts & Autograph Letters","he":"כתבי יד עבריים ומכתבים חתומים"},"estimateMin":30000},{"startPrice":25000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123106/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123106/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123106/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123106/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(karaitica).  \n  \n kiddush leil shimmurim (karaite haggadah). [egypt, c. 14th century].    \n  * with:   \n hallel leshabbat hagadol (karaite liturgy for shabbat before passover). [egypt, c. 17th century].  \n  \n together, two manuscript volumes:  \n  \n  * kiddush leil shimmurim:   \n 10 leaves. written in 19 lines per page in black, red, and brown ink in oriental hebrew semi-cursive and square scripts, headings in red ink. partially vocalized, sometimes deviating from normative, and apparently according to local pronunciation. a single survived quire [no. xii] from a codex (here ff. 1-9) of which the 10th leaf has been lost, + a single leaf (here f. 10) is the 10th leaf of quire xiii from the same codex. the original codex was constructed of quires composed of 5 bifolia or 10 folios, as usual in the orient; fol. 10v bears the number of the quire in hebrew letters under the catchword. oriental-arabic paper with laid-lines (of different thickness in fol. 1, of which the other half of bifolia is lacking, and the rest of folios) and single chain-lines, at intervals of 25 mm. (f. 1) and 30 mm. (ff. 2-10). soiled; losses to margins and corners; leaves strengthened at gutter. title page with owner's note added, probably in the 17th century. modern vellum, title gilt; black cloth slipcase. (110 x155 mm).  \n  \n  * hallel leshabbat hagadol :  \n 32 leaves. written in 21 lines per page in black, red, and brown ink in oriental hebrew semi-cursive and square scripts on seventeenth century venetian paper, instructions in judeo-arabic. vocalizations, colophon and decorative flourishes to some headings in red ink. catch-words at foot of verso. undated colophon, f.31r-31v; additional text in another hand, f.32r-v. modern foliation in pencil. stained, edges worn, corners rounded. modern vellum, title gilt; black cloth slipcase. (110 x160 mm).  \n  \n the karaites are a jewish sect which came into being toward the middle of the ninth century and whose original doctrine is characterized primarily by its denial of the talmudic-rabbinic tradition. over the ensuing centuries, however, karaites also developed a tradition of their own, described by them as sevel hayerushah (burden of inheritance). the karaite alternative tradition has, over the centuries, occasionally come close to rabbinic tradition.  \n  \n the two manuscripts of the present lot reflect two discrete points in the timeline of the development of karaite tradition surrounding the holiday of passover.  \n  \n the manuscript of hallel for the sabbath before passover, according to the rite of near eastern (oriental) karaites, represents a parallel but significantly different version from that of the karaites of byzantium, crimea and eastern europe. this version of the hallel for shabbat hagadol is exceedingly rare, having never been printed. it includes rare liturgical poems, some totally unknown, and others recorded only in a single manuscript in the firkowich collection in st. petersburg. according to karaite religious teacher r. aaron ben elijah of nicomedia (d. 1369) in his work sefer gan eden, the sabbath before passover, which occurs more or less on the 10th of nissan (the date upon which the biblical israelites prepared the paschal lamb in egypt), has the status of a holiday, necessitating the recitation of the hallel.  \n  \n in addition to the concatenation of biblical verses and unique liturgical poems that make up the hallel, the manuscript includes a section (22v-24v) called ha\u2019atidot, describing the vision of the future according to the hebrew prophets (the parallel item in the byzantine version is called hanehamot); ff.26r-27v: kedushah, culminating in a declaration of principles of faith and a credo, testifying to the beliefs of the karaite faith in its near eastern version, differing dramatically from the byzantine version by virtue of its liberal use of islamic terminology. the manuscript closes with a poem by a non-karaite poet, solomon ibn gabirol (d. c.1058), and a prayer for atonement, written by a later owner of the manuscript, abraham levi, the son of the honorable r. samuel of blessed memory.  \n  \n kiddush leil shimurim (kiddush for the night of vigils, ) is a haggadah for passover according to the rite of the communities of near eastern karaites, probably from egypt or the holy land, with judeo-arabic instructions. it is parallel to, but textually different, than the haggadah according to the rite of karaites of byzantium, crimea and eastern europe, called hallel haqatan. the present manuscript was once part of a larger codex which would have contained a collection of different works. in addition to the karaite haggadah, which is nearly complete, the present manuscript includes a fragment of a very rare poetical work by moses ibn ezra, entitled he\u2019anaq.  \n  \n the karaite haggadah, different of course from the rabbinic, is also in itself not homogenous. there are deep differences between the version and the practice of the near eastern karaite communities and those of the byzantium, crimea and lithuania, in manuscript and the printed editions where it is titled hallel haqatan. however, the present manuscript contains unique versions and practices of the ancient near eastern karaites, which have not been entirely preserved in the text of later oriental karaites, who adapted aspects from the byzantine karaites\u2019 rite.  \n  \n the text of the original near eastern version, more or less similar to that found in the present manuscript, has been preserved in a few fragments in the second abraham firkowich collection, in the russian national library, st. petersburg and in a single complete manuscript, now in the collection of the karaite community of ramla, produced by abraham cohen shami (meaning that he was originally from syria or palestine), probably in egypt, in 1716.  \n  \n notable differences between the present haggadah manuscript on the one hand and both rabbanite and other karaite haggadot on the other, include the absence of any mention here of maror (bitter herbs), the inclusion of which, these early near eastern karaites maintained, was dependent on the offering of a paschal sacrifice and therefore no longer in effect after the destruction of the temple.  \n  \n but perhaps the most remarkable textual emendation found in this haggadah is a blessing which reads: \u201cmay the merciful one let us die for the sake of his faith!\u201d this extraordinary supplication brings to mind the islamic ideal of martyrdom, the istishhad, further evidence of the strong influences of the surrounding majority culture on this small group of near eastern karaite jews of the 14th century.  \n  \n the near eastern rite of these two manuscripts has yet to be the subject of scholarly research.  \n  \n  provenance:  \n sotheby\u2019s new york, important judaica, 4th december, 2014, lot 103.","he":"(קראים). \n \n  \n \n \n קידוש ליל שימורים (הגדה קראית). [מצרים, בערך המאה ה־14]. \n \n \n  \n \n \n עם: \n \n \n  \n \n \n הלל לשבת הגדול (ליטורגיה קראית לשבת שלפני פסח). [מצרים, בערך המאה ה־17]. \n \n \n יחד, שני כרכי כתב־יד: \n \n \n  \n \n \n קידוש ליל שימורים: \n \n \n  \n \n \n 10 דפים. כתובים ב־19 שורות לעמוד בדיו שחורה, אדומה וחומה, בכתב חצי־רהוט מזרחי ובכתב מרובע עברי; הכותרות בדיו אדומה. מנוקד בחלקו, לעיתים בניקוד החורג מן המקובל, כנראה לפי ההגייה המקומית. שריד מקונטרס אחד [מס׳ xii] מתוך קודקס, הכולל כאן דפים 1\u20139, כאשר הדף העשירי של הקונטרס חסר; בנוסף, דף בודד (כאן דף 10) הוא הדף העשירי של קונטרס xiii מאותו קודקס. הקודקס המקורי הורכב מקונטרסים בני חמישה בי־פוליה או עשרה פוליו, כמקובל במזרח; בדף 10ב מופיע מספר הקונטרס באותיות עבריות מתחת למילת הסיום. נייר מזרחי־ערבי עם קווי שִׁתּוּת וקווי שרשרת במרווחים של 25 מ״מ (בדף 1) ו־30 מ״מ (בדפים 2\u201310). מלוכלך; חסרים בשוליים ובפינות; הדפים חוזקו באזור הקיפול הפנימי. בדף השער נוספה הערת בעלים, ככל הנראה במאה ה־17. כריכת קלף מודרנית עם כותר מוזהב; קופסת מגן מבד שחור. (110 &times; 155 מ״מ). \n \n \n  \n \n \n  \n \n \n הלל לשבת הגדול: \n \n \n  \n \n \n  \n \n \n 32 דפים. כתובים ב־21 שורות לעמוד בדיו שחורה, אדומה וחומה, בכתב חצי־רהוט מזרחי ובכתב מרובע עברי, על נייר ונציאני מן המאה ה־17; ההוראות בערבית־יהודית. ניקוד, קולופון ועיטורים דקורטיביים אחדים בדיו אדומה. מילות תפיסה בתחתית העמודים. קולופון בלתי מתוארך בדפים 31א\u201331ב; תוספת טקסט בכתב־יד אחר בדף 32א\u2013ב. מספור מודרני בעיפרון. כתמים, שחיקה בשוליים ופינות מעוגלות. כריכת קלף מודרנית עם כותר מוזהב; קופסת מגן מבד שחור. (110 &times; 160 מ״מ). \n \n \n  \n \n \n הקראים הם זרם יהודי שנוצר באמצע המאה התשיעית, ועיקר תורתו בראשיתה היה שלילת המסורת התלמודית־רבנית. עם זאת, במהלך הדורות פיתחו גם הקראים מסורת עצמאית, שכונתה בפיהם ״סבל הירושה״. מסורת קראית זו התקרבה לעיתים אל המסורת הרבנית. \n \n \n  \n \n \n שני כתבי־היד שלפנינו משקפים שתי נקודות שונות בהתפתחות המסורת הקראית סביב חג הפסח. \n \n \n  \n \n \n כתב־היד של ״הלל לשבת הגדול״, לפי מנהג הקראים המזרחיים, מייצג נוסח מקביל אך שונה באופן משמעותי מזה של קהילות קראי ביזנטיון, קרים ומזרח אירופה. נוסח זה נדיר ביותר ומעולם לא נדפס. הוא כולל פיוטים נדירים, חלקם בלתי ידועים לחלוטין ואחרים מוכרים רק מכתב־יד יחיד באוסף פירקוביץ׳ שבסנקט פטרבורג. לפי רבי אהרן בן אליהו מניקומדיה (נפטר 1369) בספרו ״גן עדן״, לשבת שלפני פסח, החלה סמוך לי׳ בניסן \u2014 יום הכנת קרבן הפסח במצרים \u2014 יש מעמד של חג, ולכן נאמר בה הלל. \n \n \n  \n \n \n בנוסף לליקוט פסוקי המקרא והפיוטים הייחודיים המרכיבים את ההלל, כולל כתב־היד גם את מדור ״העתידות״ (דפים 22ב\u201324ב), המתאר את חזון העתיד על־פי נביאי ישראל; וכן קדושה (דפים 26א\u201327ב) המסתיימת בהצהרת עיקרי אמונה וקרדו המעידים על תפיסת האמונה הקראית המזרחית, השונה באופן ניכר מן המסורת הביזנטית בשל השימוש הרב במונחים אסלאמיים. כתב־היד נחתם בפיוט מאת שלמה אבן גבירול ובתפילת כפרה שנכתבה בידי בעלים מאוחר בשם אברהם לוי בן ר׳ שמואל ז״ל. \n \n \n  \n \n \n ״קידוש ליל שימורים״ הוא הגדה של פסח לפי מנהג הקהילות הקראיות במזרח הקרוב, ככל הנראה ממצרים או מארץ ישראל, עם הוראות בערבית־יהודית. הוא מקביל להגדה הקראית של ביזנטיון, קרים ומזרח אירופה הנקראת ״הלל הקטן״, אך שונה ממנה בנוסח. כתב־היד שלפנינו היה בעבר חלק מקודקס גדול יותר, שכלל חיבורים נוספים. מלבד ההגדה הקראית, הכלולה כמעט בשלמותה, מצוי כאן גם קטע נדיר מיצירה פיוטית של משה אבן עזרא בשם ״הענק״. \n \n \n  \n \n \n ההגדה הקראית שונה כמובן מן ההגדה הרבנית, אך גם בתוכה קיימים הבדלים עמוקים בין נוסחי קהילות המזרח לבין אלו של ביזנטיון, קרים וליטא. כתב־היד שלפנינו משמר נוסחים ומנהגים ייחודיים של הקראים הקדומים במזרח הקרוב, אשר לא נשתמרו במלואם במסורות המאוחרות יותר. \n \n \n אחד ההבדלים הבולטים הוא היעדר מוחלט של אזכור למרור, שכן הקראים המזרחיים הקדומים סברו שאכילתו תלויה בקיום קרבן הפסח, וממילא בטלה לאחר חורבן הבית. \n \n \n  \n \n \n אולי התוספת המפתיעה ביותר בהגדה היא הברכה: ״יהי רצון מלפני הרחמן שימיתנו על אמונתו!״ \u2014 תחינה יוצאת דופן המזכירה את אידיאל השהאדה האסלאמי, ומשקפת את השפעת התרבות המוסלמית הסובבת על קהילה קראית קטנה זו במזרח הקרוב במאה ה־14. \n \n \n המנהג המזרחי המשתקף בשני כתבי־יד אלו טרם זכה למחקר אקדמי מקיף. \n \n \n פרובננס: \n \n \n  \n \n \n sotheby\u2019s ניו יורק, important judaica, 4 בדצמבר 2014, פריט 103."},"estimateMax":50000,"lotNumber":"95","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123106/view","tags":["usjudaica_manuscripts","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":25000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":25000,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:00:40.864Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$30,000 - $50,000","currency":"USD","id":123106,"category":{"en":"Hebrew Manuscripts & Autograph Letters","he":"כתבי יד עבריים ומכתבים חתומים"},"estimateMin":30000},{"startPrice":3500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123107/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(america).  \n  \n sepher tehilim. liber psalmorum hebra&iuml;ce cum notis selectis ex editione frances hare s.t.p. episcopi cicestrensis: et cum selecta lectionum varietate ex ed. vet. test. heb. benj. kennicott s.t.p.  \n  \n  first edition.  title in hebrew and latin. hebrew and latin translation with latin footnotes interspersed with hebrew. marginalia.  \n  \n ff. (2), pp. 495. lightly foxed in places, 19th-century inscriptions. modern gilt-ruled crushed morocco. 12mo. housed in custom solander-box.  \n  \n goldman, hebrew printing in america no. 1; rosenbach 152 (locating only one copy - his own); shaw & shoemaker 17004; sabin 66455.  \n  \n cambridge, new england, hilliard and metcalf, 1809. \n  \n  the first printing of any part of the bible in hebrew in america.  \n  \n this psalter represents the first printing in america of any portion of the bible in hebrew. its appearance sparked a desire to print the complete hebrew bible in the new world, that reached fruition in 1814 (see rosenbach 171).  \n  \n concerning this scarce and important american hebrew psalter, see j. wright, early bibles in america (1894) p. 122."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"96","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123107/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":3500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.129Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$4,000 - 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$2,000","currency":"USD","id":123147,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":50,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123148/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(antisemitica).  \n  \n  lazare, bernard.  antisemitism, its history and causes.  \n  \n  first edition in english.  \n pp. 384. pencil notations. original boards. 8vo. \n  \n new york, the international library publishing co., 1903. \n  \n a foundational, analytical study tracing the roots of anti-jewish sentiment from antiquity to the modern era.  \n  \n bernard lazare (1865-1903) was \u201cthe first french jew to make the transition from an almost self-hating endorsement of total assimilation as a solution to the jewish problem to a full embrace of the cause of zionism. lazare's deserved reputation as the first dreyfusard in the public sphere became magnified by the extraordinary pen of charles p&eacute;guy, who elevated him to the rank of a jewish prophet, \"an incarnation of the essence of the jewish mystique of the jewish prophetic tradition.\u201d  \n see aron rodrigue, rearticulations of french jewish identities after the dreyfus affair, in: jewish social studies volume 2, number 3 (1996)."},"estimateMax":200,"lotNumber":"137","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123148/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":50,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":50,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:22:00.537Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$100 - 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gott fun nekama.  \n buenos aires, talleres gr&aacute;ficos de krasilovsky y pertzovsy, [1930].  \n 25cmx14cm. small tear on the upper margin without paper loss.  \n  \n the undisputed highlight of this collection. broadside promoting the play \u2018god of vengeance\u2019 at the israeli theater in buenos aires. directed and starring maurice schvartz.  \n god of vengeance, written by sholem ash in 1906, is one of the most controversial works of yiddish literature. the story is set in a brothel and includes a lesbian relationship. the play, performed in new york for the first time in 1922, featured the first lesbian kiss on stage in any american theater. subsequently, the play was heavily censored by both civil authorities and the jewish community itself. in 1923 the play was canceled, the theater closed, and the producers charged with obscenity under the new york penal code.  \n maurice shvartz is recognized as one of the greatest actors in yiddish theater. he founded the yiddish art theater in 1918 and participated in more than 150 plays. he also acted on broadway and in hollywood silent films. in 1930, he toured south america. this was his first international tour outside the us.  \n  \n  *  2. teatro col&oacute;n. los eminentes actores lucy y mischa german. madrastras - shtifmamas. buenos aires, talleres gr&aacute;ficos de krasilovsky y pertzovsy, [1930\u2019s].  \n 33cmx16cm. small tear on the center of the upper half, without paper loss. light damp stain on the left margin. a strip of semi-rigid cardboard, about 3 cm wide, glued to the upper edge of the reverse side.  \n  \n this broadside documents a historic crossover between the yiddish popular theater and argentina\u2019s highest cultural institution, the teatro col&oacute;n. the participation of jacobo ficher as conductor highlights the intellectual and musical sophistication of the production. it represents the peak of jewish cultural integration in argentina's \"golden age\" of performing arts.  \n jacobo ficher (1896\u20131978) was a russian-born argentine composer, violinist, and conductor who became a cornerstone of latin american musical modernism. after emigrating to argentina in 1923, ficher co-founded the grupo renovaci&oacute;n in 1929, an elite collective of composers dedicated to breaking away from academic nationalism and introducing international avant-garde trends (such as polytonality and neoclassicism) to argentina. as a key link between the jewish immigrant experience and erudite modernist circles, ficher\u2019s involvement as a conductor in major yiddish productions at the teatro col&oacute;n underscores the profound intellectual depth and cultural prestige of the jewish theatrical scene in buenos aires at this time.  \n the play also featured performances by lucy and mischa germ&aacute;n, internationally renowned stars in the yiddish theater circuit. with portraits of the actors.  \n  \n  *  3. compa&ntilde;&iacute;a israelita de operetas y comedias stramer [\u2026] el soldado de oro - der goldene soldat.  \n moisesville, druk lanner, 1935.  \n 29cmx21cm. small tear on the margin without paper loss. semi-rigid cardboard glued to the upper edge of the reverse side.  \n  \n \u2018the golden soldier\u2019 was a celebrated yiddish operetta written by isidore lillian with music by the 'father of yiddish operetta, ' joseph rumshinsky. this production stared clara and salom&oacute;n streamer, renowned european artists who emigrated to argentina in the 1930s. the golden soldier was a staple of the international yiddish circuit, linking the vibrant theatrical scenes of new york's second avenue with the thriving jewish community in buenos aires.  \n the lanner press who printed this handbill in mois&eacute;s ville were pioneering printers who provided the essential infrastructure for yiddish cultural life in the pampas. mois&eacute;s ville being the first and most celebrated jewish agricultural colony in argentina.  \n    \n  *  4. teater colon rosarie. molly picon revue.  \n mois&eacute;s ville, imprenta el rel&aacute;mpago, 1932.  \n 29cmx16cm. strip of semi-rigid cardboard, about 3 cm wide, glued to the upper edge of the reverse side.  \n  \n another broadside from the printing presses of mois&eacute;s ville. it announces the presentation of molly picon, the quintessential female star of yiddish theater. \n  \n  *  5. teatro. broadside of a concert starring tzili tecs and leon blumenzon, two local figures of the yiddish theater. along with the pianist sim&oacute;n tenovsky.  \n [buenos aires? 1935].  \n 29cmx21cm. printed on both sides. cardboard, scraps glued to the upper edge of the reverse side."},"estimateMax":2500,"lotNumber":"139","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123150/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":1500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":1700,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:23:10.059Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,500 - $2,500","currency":"USD","id":123150,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":1500},{"startPrice":100,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123151/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(argentina).  \n  \n que&igrave; es el antisemitismo? encuesta mundial [\u201cwhat is antisemitism? a global survey.\u201d]  \n first edition.  \n  \n pp. xiv, 79, (1). browned. original pictorial wrappers, light wear. sq. 8vo.  \n not listed in worldcat. \n  \n buenos aires, asociacion racionalista judia, 1934. \n  \n including writings by: r.g. pacheco, juan lazarte, jose m. lunazzi, m. l. de moura, eugen relgis, k. weisskopf, agustin hamon, l. ch. baudouin, heinrich mann, r. n. c. kalergi, henri barbusse, jean grave, g. duhamel, j. marestan, ch. richet, han ryner, norman angel, r. rolland, k. michaelis, c. j. bjorklund, and upton sinclair."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"140","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123151/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":100,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":225,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:23:48.706Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$200 - 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both by the absurdity of its content and by the lack of any other type of concrete evidence - the accusations were reproduced in other national newspapers and permeated into the imagination of many in latin america.  \n  \n in earlier years hussein triki was part of the \u2018neo-destour\u2019 party in tunisia, which operated with the consent of german authorities during the nazi occupation. he also collaborated with the mufti of jerusalem in producing propaganda work against the allies. after settling in argentina he became closely affiliated with far right nationalistic and antisemitic groups such as the movimiento nacionalista tacuara and the guardia restauradora nacionalista.  \n in 1964 he was expelled from argentina for extreme arabist propaganda by the radical civic union (ucrp) government. from a new base in venezuela, triki continued his campaign of portraying \u2018international zionism\u2019 as an ally of the castro conspiracy in latin america and how jewish civic groups were plotting to subvert political and economic order.  \n  \n  the collection consists as follows:   \n  \n  *  1. naci&oacute;n &aacute;rabe [magazine]. volume 1, numbers 1-15. march, 1963 - august, 1964.  \n numbers 1-12 bound in one volume. numbers 13/14 and 15 separate. \n buenos aires, 1963-1964. \n  \n naci&oacute;n &aacute;rabe was an anti-zionist and anti-semitic publication, edited in argentina by hussein triki. the magazine served as a propaganda platform for the arab league in south america. issue 13/14 first reveals the \u2018victorious star\u2019 conspiracy.  \n  \n  *  2. group of 11 photographs of the typed manifesto of the \u201cestrella victoriosa\u201d clandestine organization. buenos aires, [1964]. most photographs with stamps of naci&oacute;n &aacute;rabe magazine on verso.  \n  \n planning for a coup d\u2019&eacute;tat in argentina, the manifesto calls 1964 to be \u201cthe year of the insurrection, \u201d as they set out here plans to recruit tens of thousands of soldiers and 7,000 militants drawn from the local communist branches. links have been established with masonic lodges and front offices are to be established via bookstores and travel agencies. the document states that the most powerful enemies of estrella victoriosa are the argentine organizations headed by hussein triki, father julio meinvielle and major general enrique rauch. finally the manifesto states that the symbol of their organization is to be a star of david superimposed with a skull against a black background. photographs includes maps of argentina with code names and other markings.  \n  \n * 3. group of seven anti-zionist and anti-semitic publications, all referencing the \u201cestrella victoriosa affair.  \n  \n i. oliva, gilberto h. a la d.a.i.a. carta abierta de los caballeros del pu&ntilde;al y de la rosa. pp. (12). two punch-holes at left margin. (no institutional holdings in oclc-worldcat).  \n buenos aires, julio de 1964.  \n  \n antisemitic pamphlet issued published by brigadier gilberto hidalgo oliva, a close collaborator of triki, and one of the main representatives of the most far right and nationalistic factions of the argentinian military forces. he accuses argentinian jews here of being pro-communist, of robbing argentinian society, working for a foreign state - giving as an example the eichmann kidnapping - and even conspiring to overthrow the argentinian government.  \n  \n ii. oliva, gilberto hidalgo. a los legisladores nacionales. carta abierta. pp. (8). (no institutional holdings in oclc-worldcat).  \n buenos aires, 1964.  \n  \n antisemitic screed to argentinia\u2019s national congress concerning daia, the central representative body of argentine jewry.  \n  \n iii. comando general de las fuerzas de emergencia. el sionismo se dispone a tomar el poder. orden de represi&oacute;n. pp. (4). (only one institutional holding noted in oclc-worldcat). buenos aires, july 23, 1964.  \n  \n a nonexistent emergency command with orders to repress zionist elements in argentina, who are accused of conspiring against the state. concludes with: \u201cfor god and the homeland! against impudent and invading jewish-zionist-communism!\u201d  \n  \n iv. oliva, gilberto hidalgo. los fines del sionismo en la argentina. single page. (no institutional holdings in oclc-worldcat).  \n [buenos aires, 1964].  \n  \n issued by the alianza libertadora nacionalista, a violent argentine fascist organization known for its antisemitism.  \n  \n v. oliva, gilberto hidalgo. dijo el brigadier oliva sobre el sionismo. single leaf. (no institutional holdings in oclc-worldcat).  \n [buenos aires, 1964]. \n  \n 'on zionism, ' issued by the alianza libertadora nacionalista. no institutional holdings in oclc-worldcat).  \n  \n vi. qui&eacute;nes est&aacute;n destruyendo a la naci&oacute;n argentina? single page.  \n [buenos aires, 1960\u2019s].  \n  \n antisemitic pamphlet which accuses the jewish community of seeking to destroy argentina from within. it concludes with the following threat: \u201cwe do not want the fate of the warsaw ghetto for argentines of the israelite faith.\u201d  \n  \n vii. oliva, gilberto hidalgo. el peligro de los polvorines clandestinos del movimiento sionista internacional. pp. (16). punch-holes at left margin.  \n buenos aires, july 23, 1964.  \n  \n press conference concerning the estrella victoriosa organization.  \n  \n  *  4. group of 23 original photographs depicting activities organized in argentina by the representative of the arab league, hussein triki. housed in arab league envelope. \n buenos aires, 1962-1964. \n  \n most depict hussein triki in conferences or related social activities organized by the arab league in argentina. many photographs with stamps of naci&oacute;n &aacute;rabe magazine on verso.  \n  \n  *  5. la liga &aacute;rabe cree mover a los argentinos como peones de su ajedrez. operativo seducción: captar factores de poder (al servicio de que? para que?)  \n [\u201cthe arab league believes it can move argentines like pawns on its chessboard. operation seduction: co-opting power brokers (in whose service? to what end?\u201d)  \n ff. (14). original printed wrappers. (only two institutional holdings noted in oclc-worldcat). buenos aires, 1964.  \n  \n published by the delegación de asociaciones israelitas argentinas. this pamphlet unmasks an arab league propaganda operation against jewish communities in south america. it especially refutes the lies of the representative of the arab league in argentina, hussein triki. with letters of endorsement by several south american politicians, including salvador allende.  \n  \n  this collection is historically significant for  its documentation of a virulent wave of antisemitism and arab league-sponsored propaganda in argentina during the 1960's. it provides a primary-source look at how \"the estrella victoriosa affair\" was used as a conspiracy to destabilize the social standing of the argentine jewish community."},"estimateMax":9000,"lotNumber":"141","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123152/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":5000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":5000,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:24:18.747Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$6,000 - 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information on palestine settlement efforts. 13x19 inches. c. 1947.  \n  \n * 9. club juvenil de la union sionista de cuba. theatre poster; celebrating the 5th anniversary of the zionist youth club of havana. imprenta raigor, cuba. 18x24 inches. c. 1948.  \n  \n  *  10. wizo publication in spanish \u201cen servicio activo.\u201d illustrated. 12 pages. 12x8 inches. c. 1949.  \n  \n  *  11. comite de accion sionista. call to action in support of keren-kayemeth. 11x8 inches. 1949.  \n  \n  *  12. poster by wizo - organizacion mundial de mujeres sionistas in havana. an invitation to an event featuring professor avraham peskin. 8x11 inches. published by imprenta bondar - obrapia 362 (havana). c. 1950.  \n  \n  *  13. chavot hanoar of cuba. a call to support orphans and destitute children in israel. imprenta bondar, havana. 8x11 inches. (two copies). c. 1950. \n  \n  *  14. jewish center of cuba. a call to support the center. imprenta rimsky, havana. 18x7 inches. c. 1950.  \n    \n  *  15. centro israelita de cuba. pamphlet promoting the center and describing its various educational, social and welfare activities. six pages, folded into three. 16x9 inches unfolded. c. 1950. \n  \n  *  16. jewish center of cuba. new year's celebration. imprenta bondar, havana. 12x15 inches. 1951.  \n  \n  *  17. organizacion juvenil sionista 'betar'. movie poster for the kirk douglas film \u201cthe juggler.\u201d 12x19 inches. 1957.  \n  \n  *  18. poster issued by wizo - organizacion mundial de mujeres sionistas in havana. an invitation to the general assembly meeting. 8 &frac12; x 11 inches. 1957.  \n  \n  *  19. another poster issued by wizo - organizacion mundial de mujeres sionistas in havana. an invitation to the general assembly meeting. 8 &frac12; x 11 inches. published by imprenta bondar - obrapia 362 (havana). 1957.  \n  \n  *  20. poster issued by wizo - organizacion mundial de mujeres sionistas in havana. an invitation to celebrations marking the 40th anniversary. 8 &frac12; x 11 inches. 1960.  \n  \n  *  21. poster issued by union sionista de cuba. an invitation to an exposition entitled \"100 years of teodoro herzl.\" 8 &frac12; x 12 &frac12; inches. 1960.  \n  \n the collection consists of a diverse range, including theatrical and cinema posters, invitations to community dances, zionist calls to action, and memorial programs issued by prominent organizations such as the uni&oacute;n sionista de cuba, wizo, the jewish center of cuba, and the youth group betar. they often feature striking graphics from local havana presses and capture the vibrant social and political pulse of a community that balanced a deep commitment to the nascent state of israel with a distinctively cuban cultural identity. \n  \n the historical context of these items is defined by a period of significant growth and subsequent abrupt transition for cuban jewry. following waves of immigration from turkey and eastern europe in the early 1900's and a further influx of refugees fleeing nazi persecution in the 1930's, the community in havana reached a peak of nearly 24,000 individuals. during the years documented here, havana was a hub of jewish activity, featuring synagogues, hebrew schools, and a robust network of zionist and philanthropic institutions. however, the 1959 revolution served as a watershed moment and within just a few years, almost 95% of the jewish population emigrated, largely to the united states and israel, leaving behind a \"lost world\" of institutions, and a culture that these posters now uniquely preserve. \n  \n this collection offers primary source evidence of a vanished demographic landscape. unlike formal histories, the day-to-day cultural life of the community is documented, providing insight into the jewish diaspora in latin america, the evolution of zionist ideology in the caribbean, and the linguistic landscape of a community that navigated spanish, yiddish, and hebrew. indeed it is striking how the initial usage of yiddish slowly morphs into spanish, a balance that changes in time so that by 1960, the very last poster here is entirely in spanish. \n  \n as physical survivors of a displaced community, these posters are artifacts of artistic and social significance, a testament to the vibrancy of cuban jewry and offer a window into a unique socio-political era ."},"estimateMax":12000,"lotNumber":"154","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123165/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":4000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":5500,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:31:25.642Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$8,000 - 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it was not until 1906 that he was fully rehabilitated.  \n  \n see norman l. kleeblatt, the dreyfus affair: art, truth and justice (1987) p. xix and p. 165 and pp. 268-9.  \n  \n  the historic cri-de-coeur: \u201cj\u2019accuse.\" one of the most celebrated newspaper headlines in the history of journalism."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"161","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123172/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":1500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":4000,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:35:24.997Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$2,000 - $4,000","currency":"USD","id":123172,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123173/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(dreyfus affair).   \n  \n cartes postales illustrees. petite brouille no. 3041. \n  \n  \n set of six photographic postcards depicting the rehabilitation ceremony of capt. alfred dreyfus. with original printed wrappers. (paris), 1906. on the afternoon of july 21, 1906, in the courtyard of the &eacute;cole militaire in paris, alfred dreyfus was officially rehabilitated, promoted to major, and decorated with the cross of the legion of honour.  \n this was preceded by dreyfus' twelve year ordeal seeking to clear his name from accusations of treason."},"estimateMax":600,"lotNumber":"162","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123173/view","tags":["uscollectibles_stamps","uscollectibles","uscollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.237Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$400 - $600","currency":"USD","id":123173,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":400},{"startPrice":500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123174/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123174/002/002.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(france).  \n  \n les gens du \u201cbloc\u201d par bruno [pseud. bruno-f&eacute;licien-eug&egrave;ne-sulpice leydet].  \n  \n  *  first series: autour du cabinet. prefaces by edouard drumont and francois coppee. pp. (24).  \n  \n  *  second series: chequards pochards mouchards. preface by henri rochefort. pp. (24). \n  \n together, two volumes. caricature illustrations throughout. original color illustrated wrappers, light wear. oblong folio. \n  \n paris, librarie antisemite 1903, and librarie antijuive, 1903. \n  \n leading nationalist edouard drumont (1844-1917) founder in 1889 of the french anti-semitic league was a foremost member of the anti-dreyfusards. similarly writers francois coppee (1842-1908) and victor henri rochefort, marquis de rochefort-lu&ccedil;ay (1831-1913) took leading roles in the dreyfus affair. \n  \n * autour du cabinet (1903): this first series focuses on the cabinet of prime minister &eacute;mile combes. the narrative depicts government ministers as bumbling, or sinister puppets who are \"selling out\" the country.  \n  \n * ch&eacute;quards, pochards, mouchards (1904): the title translates to \"check-receivers, drunkards, and spies.\" this second series broadens the attack to the entire ruling \"bloc des gauches.\" \n  \n  \n both volumes caricature such targets as alfred dreyfus, emile zola, joseph reinach, jean jaur&egrave;s, abbe combes, theodor herzl, etc. they were published by paris\u2019s librairie antijuive (antisemitic bookstore) which served as a hub for radical right-wing propaganda."},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"163","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123174/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.241Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$800 - $1,200","currency":"USD","id":123174,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":800},{"startPrice":500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123175/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(france).  \n  \n journal de paris. numbers 356, 358, 359 and 360. four individual issues. each of four-pages. unbound. sm. 4to. paris, 22nd, 24th, 25th, 26th december, 1789. each with content relating to the civil status of jews in revolutionary france. \n these issues of the journal de paris coincide with critical sessions held on december 22\u201324,1789, during which the national assembly debated whether non-catholics should be granted the rights of active citizens. it was in this context that stanislas marie ad&eacute;la&iuml;de, the comte de clermont-tonnerre stated:  \n \"jews should be denied everything as a nation, but granted everything as individuals.\"  \n  \n the debates recorded in these issues eventually led to the decree of january 1790 that granted full citizenship to sephardic (portuguese and spanish) jews, while the status of ashkenazi jews remained adjourned until 1791."},"estimateMax":900,"lotNumber":"164","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123175/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.246Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$600 - $900","currency":"USD","id":123175,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":600},{"startPrice":500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123176/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(france).  \n  \n journal en vaudevilles. no. iii [only, of 12]. pp. 16. stained. unbound. 8vo. 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(new york, 1944). the dinner was held in new york\u2019s waldorf-astoria hotel on june 5th, the evening prior to d-day.  \n  \n includes greetings from the president of the fund, lt. edward a. norman from \u201csomewhere in england\u201d who writes: \u201cmy experiences in the war zone further convinces me that as the victorious end of the war draws closer, it is evident that palestine is destined to play an important role in the gigantic task of enabling the oppressed jews of europe to reconstruct their lives.\u201d  \n  \n the american fund for palestinian institutions helped finance institutions in palestine, acting as a philanthropic bridge for development projects.  \n see: https://www.jta.org/archive/edward-norman-dead-founded-american-fund-for-israe l-institutions"},"estimateMax":1000,"lotNumber":"166","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123177/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":500,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:37:55.206Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$700 - $1,000","currency":"USD","id":123177,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":700},{"startPrice":200,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123178/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(germany).  \n  \n royal edict.  \n pp. 3. unbound. folio. \n  \n  \n (berlin), 1710. \n    \n  prussian plague edict restricting jewish trade during the berlin epidemic of 1710.  \n  \n issued in berlin (c&ouml;lln an der spree) on 24th december 1710, during the severe outbreak of plague that affected berlin and large parts of brandenburg-prussia.  \n  \n the text notes that his royal majesty in prussia had previously forbidden jews from itinerant trading and roaming the countryside (\u201chausiren und herumblauffen auf dem lande.\u201d) owing to the dangerous conditions caused by contagion, the decree states that the ruler now finds it necessary to extend these measures further, explicitly citing the fear that disease might be carried from one place to another. on this basis, the order prohibits jews from engaging in any form of trade in rural areas for the duration of the emergency.  \n  \n the edict was issued under the reign of frederick i of prussia and forms part of the broader body of plague legislation enacted in berlin and its surroundings during this crisis. it documents how existing restrictions on jewish mobility and economic activity were intensified in times of epidemic, and provides a clear, dated example of prussian public-health regulation intersecting with the legal status of jews in the early eighteenth century."},"estimateMax":600,"lotNumber":"167","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123178/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":200,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":2200,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:39:34.584Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$400 - $600","currency":"USD","id":123178,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":400},{"startPrice":500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123179/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(germany).  \n  \n  manuscript  issued by charles vi, holy roman emperor, concerning jews residing in the imperial city of friedberg, hesse.  \n  \n carl der sechste von gottes gnaden zw&ouml;lfter r&ouml;mischer kayser zu allen zeiten mehrer des reichs. liebe getre&uuml;e. es ist e&uuml;ch vorhin bekannt, welcher gestalten im de&uuml;tschen.kayserthumb uhralten herkommens seye, da&szlig; 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(8), 81, (1). [vinograd, amsterdam 2480]. \n  \n amsterdam, david proops, 1820. \n  \n protests the dramatic changes introduced by the hamburg temple to traditional synagogue practices, and decries such refoms as: the presence of an organ for musical accompaniment, the abolishment of the recitation of the amidah and other standard formula to the prayers, converting aschkenazic custom to sephardic, praying in the vernacular and while bareheaded, mingling genders during services, and most dramatically - radically removing all prayers seeking the messianic redemption."},"estimateMax":400,"lotNumber":"170","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123181/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":100,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":850,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:44:01.997Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$200 - $400","currency":"USD","id":123181,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":100,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123182/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123182/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(germany).  \n    \n  dietz, alexander  stammbuch der frankfurter juden\u2026frankfurter j&uuml;dischen familien von 1359-1849, nebst einem plane der judengasse  \n [\u201cbook of genealogy of frankfurt jewry\u2026 frankfurt jewish families from 1349-1849, includes map of jews\u2019 street.\u201d]  \n  \n foldout map in red and green. also with chapters on frankfurt\u2019s rabbis and physicians.  \n pp. (12), 481. original printed boards, lower corner of upper cover torn away. 4to. \n  \n frankfurt a/ main, j. st. goar, 1907. \n    \n  * with:  festschrift zum 75 jahrigen bestehen der realschule mit lyzeum der isr. religionsgesellschaft frankfurt am main. pp. 175, 59 + plates. 1928.  \n  \n  * and:  friedrich thieberger. judisches fest, judischer brauch. berlin, 1936.  \n  \n  * and:  group of eight reference works on german-jewish history. 1980\u2019s-2000\u2019s."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"171","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123182/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":100,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":175,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:44:51.026Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$300 - 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the majority of which were broadsides, and all issued in very few copies.  \n see a. m. habermann, \u201cthe hebrew press in corfu\u201d in: perakim be\u2019toldoth ha\u2019madphisim ha\u2019ivri\u2019im (1978) pp. 337-42, no. 6 - without seeing a copy and quoting the bookseller david frankel\u2019s catalogue of greek prints, no. 32."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"173","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123183/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":700,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.254Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,000 - $1,500","currency":"USD","id":123183,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":3000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123184/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123184/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(holocaust).  \n  \n safe conduct pass of szaja and eta szymonowicz of rubiezewicze (rubizevitch), poland. bearing visas for travel from lithuania to cura&ccedil;ao (or other overseas dutch territory), with transit through japan.  \n  \n issued by japanese consul in kaunas (kovno),   chiune sugihara , with his manuscript endorsement and original signature. and by acting dutch consul in kaunas,             jan zwartendijk,  with his endorsed stamp and original signature. \n  \n document of polish citizenship issued by the polish interests section of the british legation in kaunas. also with stamps and signatures of british consul in kobe and egyptian consul in tokyo permitting travel to palestine via british colonial territories in burma and egypt.  \n one printed page containing manuscript entries, verso with stamped endorsements and original signatures, and additional page with further stamps and signatures.  \n texts in french, polish, english and japanese. photograph of shimanowitzs on first page. \n folded and taped, some loss. 8 x 11.5 inches. \n  \n kanaus (kovno), lithuania, august 8th, 1940 / august 9th, 1940 / september 25th, 1941. \n  \n  rare, original travel document issued by japanese diplomat chiune sugihara and dutch diplomat jan zwartendijk.   \n  this single paper allowed the jewish bearer to escape an otherwise certain death in lithuania.  \n  \n chiune (sempo) sugihara served as vice-consul of the empire of japan in lithuania, based in kaunas. during world war ii, he helped thousands of jews leave the country by issuing transit visas for travel to japan. most of these jews were refugees from nazi-occupied western poland, or soviet-occupied eastern poland, as well as residents of lithuania.  \n  \n in the fall of 1939, after leaving his position as deputy foreign minister in manchuria, sugihara was posted to kaunas to serve as japan\u2019s consul with orders to monitor soviet and german troop movements in the baltic region. in the summer of 1940, lithuania was officially annexed by the soviet union as a constituent soviet republic and all foreign diplomats were ordered expelled. jewish refugees present in kaunas were terrified, as now, in addition to their trauma having escaped from nazism, the threat of communist control arose. possibilities for escape were few: all of western europe was now occupied by the nazis, thus any possible gateway to palestine and the american continent was closed. any remaining possible option required diplomatic permits \u2013 visas \u2013 to cross international borders.  \n  \n agonized by the plight of the jewish refugees and with the support of l. p. de decker, the dutch ambassador to the three baltic states, who resided in riga (latvia), the part-time acting dutch consul in kaunas, jan zwartendijk, agreed to help by providing documentation for travel to the caribbean island of cura&ccedil;ao. yet such a journey would require passage through a destination accessible from where those fleeing currently were. chiune sugihara aware that these jewish applicants were in danger the longer they stayed in lithuania - and with no evidence of support from his foreign ministry - began issuing transit visas, for travel eastward, through japan. soon he was ordered by tokyo to cease issuing such paperwork, yet so troubled was sugihara by the frightening situation of the jews, he chose to disobey the order all the while receiving warnings from his superiors of personal prosecution. on the 4th september 1940, the soviets forcibly closed the japanese legation, yet even from the very train that was to transport him out of lithuania, sugihara continued to issue visas - often single documents suitable that saved an entire family.  \n  \n eleven months later the small window of escape was indeed gone. lithuania was occupied by germany and the majority of the jews that remained in the country were swiftly murdered by the nazis and their local collaborators.  \n  \n in 1985, the state of israel honored chiune sugihara (1900-86) with the title \u201crighteous among the nations\u201d for his actions, the only japanese national to be so titled. later, in 1997, jan zwartendijk (1896-1976) the dutch consul in kaunas, was posthumously honored as \u201crighteous among the nations.\u201d  \n  \n by breaking diplomatic protocol, the selfless actions of these two diplomats based in lithuania in the summer of 1940 enabled thousands of desperate jews the possibility of surviving the murderous nazi onslaught against european jewry.  \n  \n  it is estimated that some 40,000 jews (survivors and their descendants) are alive today due to the issue by zwartendijk and sugihara of this \u201cvisa for life.\u201d  \n  \n the holders of this particular safe pass rabbi shaya shimanowitz (1908-98) and his wife ettel shimanowitz (nee briskman, 1917-2010) survived the war years and eventually settled in new york where they raised children and grandchildren. a talmid of the mir in poland, rabbi shimanowitz later became the long-serving rosh yeshiva of yeshivas rabbeinu yaakov yosef (rjj)."},"estimateMax":7000,"lotNumber":"174","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123184/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":3000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":6000,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:46:43.469Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$5,000 - 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(london), martin lawrence, (1934). secondary title-page: \u201cappaling facts. letters from german concentration camps.\u201d many of the early anti-nazi publications were published by communist and socialist anti-fascist parties. this pamphlet describes conditions in nazi concentration camps. those imprisoned and brutalized included political prisoners, communists and jews.  \n  \n \"glance through this book \u2013 then read it carefully. then see that the terrible facts in it are as widely known as you can make them. \n for these things are happening now\u2026 beatings, torturing, murder, hideous mental and physical cruelty, destruction of the working class movement - all these things are happening\u201d (introduction)."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"176","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123186/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":250,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":250,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:47:40.974Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$300 - 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(paris), 1942. issued by the institut d'&eacute;tude des questions juives (ieqj) whose goal was to put anti-semitic propaganda \"under a french label\".  \n this anonymous text is written in a crude dehumanizing style, seeking to portray jews as an inferior people and a cancerous danger within french society. \n  \n the r&eacute;volution nationale ideology of the vichy regime sought to present anti-semitism as a legitimate social science in order to provide it with more authority among french intellectuals."},"estimateMax":700,"lotNumber":"181","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123191/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":300,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.269Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$500 - $700","currency":"USD","id":123191,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":250,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123192/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123192/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123192/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123192/004/004.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(holocaust).  \n  \n  two postcards sent from auschwitz to the united states.  \n  \n autograph postcards signed, each written by josef (israel) abramowicz (of vienna) to his sister-in-law, mina feldman, of belmont avenue, winchendon, mass.  \n  \n written in german. addressed on verso, retaining postage stamps.  \n  \n auschwitz (boczna 3), january 28th 1941  \n and sosnowitz, june 29th 1941. \n  \n in these two postcards, josef (israel) abramowicz writes to his sister-in-law mina feldman (1899\u20131968) of winchendon, massachusetts.  \n the first postcard, dated january 28, 1941, and sent from auschwitz (lager 3), abramowicz reports receiving a postcard from latvia stating that his children, bernhard and szmulek had obtained permission to emigrate to the united states to join mina, and he expresses his deep gratitude for her assistance. \n the second postcard, dated june 29, 1941, and sent from the sosnowiec ghetto (a subcamp of auschwitz), abramowicz reports that he received word that his children reached kobe, japan, but that he has no further news since. \n  \n  cataloguer\u2019s note:  \n  \n \u201ci have not been able to determine the fate of the writer and his family; there are many individuals with the same name listed in ancestry, arolsen, ushmm, and similar databases. for the family of the sister-in-law, mina feldman, i located us census entries from 1930 and 1940 for her own family (she also had a son named samuel, and her husband was named bernhard as well), as well as her obituary (1968). however, it remains unclear whether her two nephews ultimately made it to the united states. while several individuals with such names appear in the records under varying circumstances, the available evidence does not presently allow for a definitive identification.\u201d"},"estimateMax":700,"lotNumber":"182","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123192/view","tags":["usjudaica_manuscripts","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":250,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.271Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$500 - $700","currency":"USD","id":123192,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":250,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123193/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123193/002/002.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(holocaust).  \n  \n plan von litzmannstadt mit strassenverzeichnis [\u201cmap of litzmannstadt (lodz) with street index.\u201d] prepared by erwin thiem. large 4-color map (scale 1:20,000) with text in german. on verso is a comprehensive listing of all street names throughout the city. the area of the jewish ghetto has been erased of street-names and replaced by a series of 105 individual letters or numbers comprising \u201cstrasse getto norden\u201d (small portion in white, in central upper area of map). worn with small tears along creases. 37 x 27.5 inches (94 x 70 cm). litzmannstadt (lodz), s. seipelt, 1942. when german forces occupied the central polish city of lodz in september 1939, it had a population of 672,000, over one-third of whom were jews. the reich annexed lodz directly into the warthegau region and renamed it litzmannstadt after general karl litzmann, who had led german forces in the area in 1914. the germans intended to racially \u201cpurify\u201d the city, central to which was the segregation and removal of its jewish community who were henceforth cast with a doomed future. the present map clearly displays how the nazis radically restructured lodz\u2019s demographic infrastructure as a way to exclude the city\u2019s jews."},"estimateMax":700,"lotNumber":"183","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123193/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":250,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.279Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$500 - $700","currency":"USD","id":123193,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":800,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123194/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123194/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123194/002/002.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(holocaust).  \n    \n  (zolt&aacute;n hirsch) \u201czoli.\u201d  kis ember nagy elete - &ouml;n&eacute;letrajz) [\u201cthe great life of a small man - an autobiography.\u201d]  \n  \n  first edition.  hungarian text. one of only 100 copies. photographic illustrated plates. inscribed and signed by the author in hungarian on title-page. \n pp. 159. original gilt-titled patterned boards. sm. 8vo.  \n  \n (budapest, 1942). \n  \n  accompanied by:   \n   roli zoli.  mechanical toy  representing a tin clown on a red motorcycle. along with original box. (hungary, 1950\u2019s). \n  \n zolt&aacute;n hirsch (1885-1944), popularly known as \u201czoli\u201d issued this book (and personally sold copies of it in the streets of budapest) after he was expelled from the f&eacute;nyes (formerly beketow) circus due to the anti-jewish decrees imposed in hungary that strictly limited the number of jews permitted in the workforce. as expected, these blatant anti-semitic rules affected numerous doctors, lawyers, engineers, journalists - but in this case, it affected zoli, a circus performer, born a dwarf, who become tremendously popular throughout hungary.  \n  \n zoli was arrested for illegal book-peddling and for wearing a yellow star that did not comply with nazi requirements on the grounds of being too small. his witty defense that the badge was proportionate to his size was rejected by the authorities. zoli was imprisoned, and eventually deported - together with the majority of the hungary\u2019s jewish population - and murdered in auschwitz.  \n  \n see:  \n anna k&eacute;rchy, from showbiz to the concentration camp: the fabulous, freakish life of hungarian jewish dwarf performers, zoli hirsch and the ovitz family, in: exploring the cultural history of continental european freak shows and enfreakment (cambridge 2012) p. 211-32.  \n see also: http://www.theescapeactshow.com/blog/past-zoltan-hirsch  \n and https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1414520548391010304  \n  \n an autobiography of a hungarian-jewish circus clown, acrobat and comedian, who later perished in auschwitz."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"184","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123194/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":800,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.286Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,000 - 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1945. an encyclopaedic reference work: maps\"] by jan laskowski of the central commission for the investigation of nazi crimes in poland. \n  \n  the seven maps:  \n    \n  *  1:   hitlerowskie obozy na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945. [\u201cnazi camps in poland in the years 1939 - 1945\u201d]. showing: concentration and extermination camps, sub-camps of concentration camps, extermination centers, pow camps, more important sub-camps, working divisions, commandos and temporary pow camps, penal labor camps, major labor camps, prisons, transit camps & ghettos.  \n    \n  *  2: getta na ziemiach polskich w okresie okupacji hitlerowskiej w latach 1939 - 1945 [\u201cghettos in poland during the nazi occupation in 1939 - 1945\u201d].  \n    \n  *  3: hitlerowskie obozy przejsciowe na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945 [\u201cnazi transit camps in poland in 1939-1945\u201d].  \n    \n  *  4: hitlerowskie wiezienia i areszty na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945 [\u201cnazi prisons and detention centers in poland in 1939 - 1945\u201d].  \n    \n  *  5: hitlerowskie obozy pracy na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945 [\u201cnazi labor camps in poland in the years 1939 - 1945\u201d].  \n    \n  *  6: hitlerowskie obozy jenieckie na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945 [\u201cnazi pow camps in poland in 1939 - 1945\u201d].  \n    \n  *  7: hitlerowskie obozy koncentracyjne i osrodki zaglady na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945 [\u201cnazi concentration camps and extermination centers in poland in 1939 - 1945\u201d]. \n  \n these maps were produced during a point in poland's history in which it was actively revisiting the history of the second world war. leading social scientists sought to gather all living as well as recorded history of the events of the holocaust and related atrocities before such information vanished. leading these efforts, particularly during the 1960s and 1970s, was the gl&oacute;wna komisja scigania zbrodni przeciwko narodowi polskiemu [the chief commission for the prosecution of crimes against the polish nation].  \n  \n  polish reinterpretations of the holocaust:   \n  \n \"studying the effects of german occupation in poland is a delicate subject. while it is certain that poland suffered at least as badly as any other european nation during the second world war, reinterpretations of the holocaust in the country have also been used to satisfy nationalistic tendencies. it has become evident in the last several years that there is a strong nationalist movement in poland that seeks to place blame for the holocaust solely on the shoulders of non-polish actors, a movement originally fostered under soviet rule. this movement has gone so far as to limit freedom of speech, criminalizing (with a three-year sentence) the suggestion that poland or its citizens (in any form) participated in the murders committed by nazis. as such, the term \u2018polish concentration camps\u2019 has been deemed unacceptable, with the government-approved term being \u2018concentration camps on polish territory\" (d. wyman)."},"estimateMax":900,"lotNumber":"189","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123199/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":300,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":350,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:53:28.851Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$600 - 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[a weekly periodical]. volume i, no. 1 - vol. ix, no. 26. total of 147 issues. minimal wear. original self-wrappers. 8vo. manchester, 1917-21. a british periodical that supported the zionist movement's aspirations for a jewish restoration to palestine. begun at the formative period of the british mandate, the publication highlighted the geopolitical, strategic and historical arguments for a jewish national home in palestine and sought to build such support within british political circles. \n  \n the primary mission of the journal was to lobby for british control over palestine as a means to secure a jewish national home. once the mandate for palestine was formally established and britain assumed civil administration, the publication saw its specific goal of securing british trusteeship had been fulfilled. launched january 26, 1917, it ceased publication in 1924, shortly after the british mandate for palestine was officially ratified and implemented."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"193","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123203/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":700,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:56:00.341Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,000 - $2,000","currency":"USD","id":123203,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":100,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123204/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(israel / palestine).  \n  \n a brief record of the advance of the egyptian expeditionary force under the command of general sir edmund h.h. allenby g.c.b., g.c.m.g. july 1917 to october 1918. edited by h. pirie-gordon.  \n  \n  first edition.  frontispiece portrait of allenby. contains 56 colored maps illustrating allenby\u2019s campaigns, with explanatory notes on facing pages. includes t. e. lawrence\u2019s first published account of the arab revolt (anonymously written).  \n  \n pp. vi, 113, (1), ff. (56). some foxing. original stiff printed wrappers, light wear. folio.  \n  \n cairo, the government press and survey of egypt, 1919. \n    \n a dramatic record of a turning point in the historical, political and cultural activities of the middle east. the defeat of ottoman forces by britain's egyptian expeditionary force in 1917-18 was brilliantly led by the newly appointed general allenby.  \n relationships that developed between the british and indigenous jewish and arab populations during this period were to set the stage for future events that would reverberate throughout the 20th century and beyond. not the least was the fact that the presence of the british army arrived in time to prevent the deportation of \"hebrew colonists\" that had been ordered by the ottoman ruling powers.  \n  \n the new british presence in palestine provided the security necessary for dr. chaim weizmann and the zionist commission to ceremonially inaugurate the hebrew university as a symbol of \"their confidence in the future and of their recognition of the necessity of them imparting higher education in their own language\" (text facing plate 55).  \n  \n most moving in this record of the campaign is a description of the liberation of jerusalem by the british on december 8th, 1917:  \n \u201cafter four centuries of conquest, the turk was ridding the land of his presence, and a great enthusiasm arose among the jews. there was a running to and fro; daughters called to their fathers and brothers concealed in outhouses, cellars, and attics\u2026\u2019the turks are running\u2019 they called; \u2018the day of deliverance is come\u2019\u2026 it was fitting that the flight of the turks should have coincided with the national festival of the hanukah, which commemorates the recapture of the temple from the heathen seleucids by judas maccabaeus in 165 bce\u201d (text facing plate 26)."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"194","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123204/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":100,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.303Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$300 - $500","currency":"USD","id":123204,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":250,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123205/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123205/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123205/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123205/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(israel / palestine).  \n  \n palestine partition report. presented by the secretary of state for the colonies to parliament by command of his majesty october, 1938. (cmd. 5854).  \n  \n with folding map of the region showing the proposed partition of palestine into a jewish state, arab state and british enclave. with 12 (of 13) folding maps.  \n pp. 310. lacks first map. maps stapled. original printed blue wrappers with rear pocket for maps, lightly stained. thick 8vo. \n  \n london, his majesty\u2019s stationery office, 1938. \n  \n  with:  palestine partition report. summary of report. pp. 11. unbound. (1938).  \n  \n the 1938 palestine partition commission report known as the woodhead commission report, concluded that the 1937 peel commission's plan for partitioning palestine into arab and jewish states was impracticable.  \n this latest report analyzed three partition plans (a, b, and c) but found that they failed to create financially self-supporting states, leading the british government to effectively abandon the partition policy. \n  \n the maps featured:  \n  \n 1. palestine hydrographic survey (lacking).  \n 2. the commission's tours.  \n 3. map of the royal commission's partition plan.  \n 4. the boundaries of jaffa.  \n 5. jewish land holdings.  \n 6. trans-jordan.  \n 7. map illustrating jewish proposals examined in chapters ix. and xii.  \n 8. the a plan of partition.  \n 9. the b plan of partition.  \n 9a. the b plan: shewing jewish land.  \n 10. the c plan of partition.  \n 11. map illustrating jewish proposals for jerusalem.  \n 12. proposed boundary between jaffa and tel aviv.  \n  \n  accompanied by:  \n  \n palestine. statement by his majesty\u2019s government in the united kingdom. (communique 8/38). pp. 3. (london), november 9th, 1938. \n  \n following the 1938 palestine partition commission report, the british government announced that they would seek a new policy, leading to the 1939 white paper. this statement of november 9th, 1938 was issued the very same day the kristallnacht pogroms were unleashed throughout germany."},"estimateMax":700,"lotNumber":"195","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123205/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":250,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.308Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$500 - $700","currency":"USD","id":123205,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123206/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123206/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123206/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(israel / palestine).  \n  \n anglo-american committee of inquiry on jewish problems in palestine and europe. five volumes. [original transcript of proceedings].  \n hearings held january 25th - february 1st, 1946. \n  \n pp. [2] 71; [1] 104; 121; 77. covers with faint embossed stamp. original tan stiff wrappers bound with cords and metal clips, protected by modern mylar, some wear and sunning along edges, light chipping and creasing. folio.  \n (only two oclc entries). \n  \n london, 1946. \n  \n the anglo-american committee of inquiry assembled to investigate the conditions of european jews following the holocaust and to address the political future of palestine.  \n this was the first time the issue of jewish refugees in europe was linked to that of the issue of palestine, i.e., connecting the fate of holocaust survivors with the creation of a jewish state. \n the present original document is a detailed transcript of the statements, questions and conversations by dozens of parties, arab, jewish and others, before the chairman of the committee, sir john edward singleton."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"196","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123206/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":1300,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:57:30.467Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$2,000 - $4,000","currency":"USD","id":123206,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":50,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123207/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(israel / palestine).  \n  \n arab-jewish unity. testimony before the anglo-american inquiry commission for the ihud (union) association, by judah magnes and martin buber.  \n  \n  first edition.  pp. 96. opening hinge broken. original blue boards. 8vo. \n  \n london, victor gollancz, 1947. \n  \n the jewish scholars martin buber and judah magnes put the case here for a bi-national state in palestine, rather than an exclusively jewish state. they advocated for shared political responsibility, economic cooperation, and equal rights between jews and arabs.  \n  \n the ihud association argued that the jewish return to palestine should be spiritual and cultural, rather than a purely nationalistic, act. the efforts of ihud were largely rejected by both zionist and arab leadership, yet remain a cornerstone of pacifist and bi-national zionist thought."},"estimateMax":200,"lotNumber":"197","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123207/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":50,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":50,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:58:00.520Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$100 - $200","currency":"USD","id":123207,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":100},{"startPrice":100,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123208/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123208/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(israel / palestine).  \n  \n mohammed azmi. la presencia israel&iacute; [\u201cthe israeli presence.\u201d] illustrated cocuments of occupied palestine. text in spanish and arabic. photographic illustrations throughout. pp. 20. original text and pictorial wrappers, lightly worn. sm. 4to. (buenos aires), october, 1969. \u201cwhat do the elders of zion say about this reality?\u201d (rear cover)."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"198","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123208/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":100,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":100,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:58:30.578Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$200 - $300","currency":"USD","id":123208,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":1500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123209/006/006.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123209/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123209/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123209/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123209/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123209/005/005.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(israel / palestine).  \n  \n  (jordan river diversion projects).   \n   jordan river diversion projects materials. group of six items.  \n (for background history see below). \n  \n ever since the british mandate period, parochial usage of the waters of the jordan river was a cause of constant conflict and controversy between palestinian jews and their arab neighbors, however the disputes became even more contentious after israel gained its independence. the arab countries had determined that mass immigration of jews to israel was incompatible with the amount of water resources available. israeli engineers, for their part, had formulated a plan to bring water from the kinneret to the center of the country and the negev to support the influx of new migrants.  \n  \n in 1953, dwight eisenhower dispatched ambassador eric johnston to the region to work out a plan that would regulate water usage. by that time, both israel and jordan were engaged in the unilateral construction of their own water projects: israel had begun the construction of the water carrier from the sea of the galilee, and jordan had agreed with syria to dam the yarmouk river. after two years of negotiations, both israel and jordan accepted the johnston plan, officially known as the \u201cjordan valley unified water plan.\u201d the agreement was rejected however by the arab league.  \n  \n by 1964, during the second summit of the arab league, the arab countries approved a new hydric plan with the objective to harm israel's water resources and economy. this plan sought to divert two of the three sources of the jordan river, and prevent them from flowing into the sea of galilee, thus impairing the israel national water carrier. the plan intended to divert the hasbani and the banias rivers to the yarmouk, reducing the flow of water to the kinneret. funded by saudi arabia it was partially completed by syria, before it was destroyed by israel in april, 1967. the headwater diversion plan was one of the several factors that precipitated the six-day war. \n  \n lot includes:  \n  \n * 1. salim, muhammad ahmad. mashrūʻāt taḥwīl nahr al-urdun [jordan river diversion projects]. first edition. text in arabic. pp. 43. with five full page maps and one folding table. original printed wrappers. marginal punch-holes. original printed wrappers. 8vo. \n maṣlaḥat al-istiʻlāmāt, [cairo, 1964]. \n  \n lecture given at the cairo school of engineering: a technical and historical study on possible projects to divert the jordan river. \n  \n * 2. [the arab project. exploitation of water resources in the jordan river basin and its tributaries]. hand-colored folding map. text in arabic. marginal punch-holes. 47 x 100 cm. undated and unsigned. \n n.p, 1950s-1960s. \n  \n likely one of the original maps used by arab engineer teams, or part of the project presented to the arab authorities. depicting the pre-1967 borders. \n  \n * 3. 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\u201cthe nation proclaims the state of israel.\u201d  \n  \n the first page of the publication contains the text of the declaration of independence and states that all the restrictions and regulations of the white paper (1939) are no longer valid. the second page contains sixteen encapsulated articles concerning the events of the day and declaring a global mobilization, in order to defend the newly-formed state from joint arab attack. \n  \n see: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=1gto0hcbooc"},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"200","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123210/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":1800,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T18:59:41.824Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,000 - $2,000","currency":"USD","id":123210,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":250,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123211/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123211/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(israel, state of).  \n  \n hagadah lechag ha\u2019atzma\u2019ut [\u201chagadah for israel\u2019s day of independence.\u201d] prepared by dr. yehudah hakohen meyeroff. photographic illustrations. pp. 48. touch stained. original pictorial wrappers. 12mo. tel aviv, yafet, (1949). commemorating the state of israel\u2019s very first anniversary of independence. a spirited description of the chain of events leading to the establishment of the state of israel. written in passover hagadah-style, in which the author extolls his perception of the miraculous geo-political events of the times as they affected the founding of the state of israel."},"estimateMax":600,"lotNumber":"201","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123211/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":250,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":400,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:00:11.906Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$400 - 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(11), 254. browned with few stains and marginal repairs. modern calf. large 4to.  \n vinograd, london 24. \n  \n london, thomas ilive, 1714. \n  \n haham of the spanish & portuguese synagogue in london, david nieto (1654-1728) composed the mateh dan as a defense of rabbinic judaism, especially the oral law, from the scorn of free-thinking former marranos who had made london their home. indeed, outspoken objection against the authority of the rabbinic tradition was a growing problem throughout sephardic western europe. nieto is noteworthy for his singular response, demanding a new approach toward jewish thought in order to retrench the stability of tradition.  \n nieto considered his work as a continuation in the tradition of judah halevi\u2019s cuzari (1506) a philosophical exposition of judaism, opposing the attacks of karaites, heretics and other creeds. \n  \n  * with:  david nieto. mateh dan / cuzari chelek sheni. the hebrew only issue. ff. (6), 118. 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[\u201clist of subscribers of telephone networks\u2026in cracow, 1939.\u201d]  \n  \n  \n  \n pp. viii, 9-202, (38). numerous illustrated ads. browned and stained in places. original printed wrappers, stained and worn from use. sm. folio.  \n  \n warsaw, 1939. \n  \n  the cracow telephone directory, for the year 1939.   \n an extraordinarily valuable resource for genealogical research.  \n  only one single copy listed on worldcat  (located at the ushmm). \n  \n in addition to cracow itself, the directory includes telephone listings for many towns in the surrounding region. e.g. kielce, oswiecim, radomsk, tarnow, etc. scores of smaller hamlets and villages also feature, often with just a handful of telephone subscribers - even at times, just one or two. - jewish names appear regularly.  \n entries include a personal name, occupation, street address, and telephone number. a business directory appears at the end. \n cracow is poland\u2019s largest city after warsaw. in 1939, 60,000 jews lived there, constituting some 25% of the city\u2019s total population. following the german occupation of september, 1939, all jewish community organizations were forcibly dismantled, a judenrat was set up, followed by a ghetto and then deportations to extermination camps. cracow was the capital of nazi-occupied poland. its jews were doomed."},"estimateMax":700,"lotNumber":"214","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123224/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":250,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":550,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:07:07.075Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$500 - $700","currency":"USD","id":123224,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":9000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123225/006/006.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123225/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123225/005/005.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123225/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123225/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123225/004/004.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(rothschild, natahan mayer).  \n  \n torah nevi\u2019im u\u2019kethuvim - the old testament, english and hebrew, with remarks critical and grammatical on the hebrew and corrections of the english. by anselm bayly.  \n  \n  the baron nathan mayer rothschild copy.   \n complete in four volumes. two opening titles, in hebrew and english. hebrew and english on facing pages. with nikud. english printed in two columns. engraved frontispiece of moses receiving the law. folding map displaying the journeys of the israelites in the wilderness. 4to. [vinograd, london 84; darlow & moule 5159]. \n  \n uniform contemporary bright red calf boards, three upper covers with morocco label affixed and gilt-tooled \u201cn.m. rothschild.\u201d \n  \n london, george bigg & edward cox, 1774. \n  \n  nathan mayer rothschild\u2019s personal hebrew bible .  \n the first bilingual, hebrew-english bible printed in england.  \n  an excellent association copy.  \n  \n baron nathan mayer rothschild (1777\u20131836) was the founder of the british branch of the rothschild banking dynasty.  \n born in frankfurt, germany, he was the third of five sons sent across europe by their father, mayer amschel rothschild, in order to expand the family's financial influence.  \n  \n founder in 1811 of n.m. rothschild & sons at new court (headquarters of rothschild & co. to this day), nathan mayer made a fortune in the bond market and subsequently played a critical role in supplying funds to the duke of wellington\u2019s army, which was essential for defeating napoleon at the battle of waterloo. during the liquidity crisis of 1825\u201326, nathan mayer rothschild supplied enough coin to the bank of england to prevent its collapse. in 1833, he and his brother-in-law sir moses montefiore raised &pound;15 million for the british government to fund compensation to slave owners following the slavery abolition act.  \n  \n nathan mayer was a prominent advocate for jewish emancipation in england, using his influence to support political rights for the jewish community. his seven children continued his work, with his eldest son, lionel de rothschild, later becoming the first practicing jew to take his seat in the british house of commons.  \n  \n english clergyman anselm bayly (1719\u201394) was known for his extensive writings on linguistics, music, and theology.  \n  \n  provenance:  \n rowley's fine art auctioneers, antiquarian books from the rothschild library of exbury house, 1st june, 2024, lot 310."},"estimateMax":18000,"lotNumber":"215","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123225/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":9000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.335Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$12,000 - 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[\u201cdraft proposal for the improvement of the financial condition of the colony of suriname.\u201d]  \n  \n first edition. edited by j. w. tydeman.  \n pp. viii, 56. browned. modern boards. 8vo.  \n  \n amsterdam, bakels & kr&ouml;ber, 1842. \n  \n  slave emancipation - suriname, 1842.  \n first edition of a rare surinamese colonial reform tract, remarkable for its explicit engagement with slavery and the question of emancipation. \n  \n written by j. j. de mesquita, a surinamese plantation owner of sephardic jewish descent, the work was first submitted to king willem i in 1839 and later revised for willem ii. it sets out a comprehensive scheme to stabilize suriname\u2019s collapsing finances and revive plantation agriculture, while recognizing that slavery, the basis of the colony\u2019s wealth, was unsustainable.  \n  \n at the center of the plan is the creation of a new colonial bank, whose reserve fund was intended not only to restore confidence in credit and currency but also to provide compensation to slave-owners at the moment of emancipation and to subsidize the introduction of european immigrant labor to replace enslaved workers. by binding financial reform directly to the eventual abolition of slavery, de mesquita produced one of the earliest printed dutch west indian proposals for a post-slavery economy.  \n  \n the ontwerp preserves stark documentary evidence of the manner in which enslaved men and women were treated as financial assets. in its loan schedules, enslaved persons are assigned precise values. the preface here by amsterdam lawyer j. w. tydeman underlines the urgency of reform, warning that theoretical discussions of slavery or colonization could not avert the colony\u2019s collapse without decisive financial measures. the work thus stands as both a defense of planter interests and a clear recognition that emancipation was inevitable."},"estimateMax":900,"lotNumber":"220","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123230/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":300,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":1000,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:11:12.993Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$600 - $900","currency":"USD","id":123230,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":600},{"startPrice":250,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123231/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(sweden).  \n  \n  l&ouml;we, christian peter.  speculum religionis judaic&aelig; [\u201ca mirror of the jewish religion.\u201d]  \n  \n text in swedish, occasional use of hebrew.  \n pp. (43), 112, (2). lightly foxed. later half-calf over marbled boards, rubbed. sm. 8vo. \n  \n stockholm, j.l. horrn, 1732. \n  \n \u201cwritten by the converted jew christian peter l&ouml;we, this work describes the religious ceremonies and traditions of jews from cradle to grave and is the first such publication in swedish. it covers both life-cycle events, such as circumcisions, bnei mitzvah, weddings, and funerals, and holidays of the religious calendar, such as passover, rosh hashanah, yom kippur, and sukkot. many of the accounts of ceremonies are rather detailed and include biblical and rabbinical references and quotations as well as descriptions of clothing, food, and drink.  \n  \n this is the first time such a depiction of jewish life became available in swedish. yet within a broader european context there was nothing particularly unusual about the book. l&ouml;we\u2019s speculum is one of a large number of works that can be classified as christian ethnographic writing about jews which first appeared in western europe around the beginning of the sixteenth century and remained popular until the end of the eighteenth century. this genre comprises works that contain largely accurate descriptions of jewish ceremonies and customs but focus on details that portray such praxis as superstitious, ridiculous, and dangerous to christians. the relatively late arrival of the genre to sweden in the eighteenth century can perhaps be explained by the absence of a resident jewish community in the country, although it is noteworthy that the publication of speculum religionis judaic&aelig; happened when the question of admitting jews to sweden was routinely being debated in the swedish parliament.\u201d  \n see jonathan adams, a mirror of the jewish religion: a critical edition and translation of christian petter l&ouml;we's \"speculum religionis judaicae\" (2024), introduction."},"estimateMax":700,"lotNumber":"221","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123231/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":250,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":800,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:11:55.423Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$500 - $700","currency":"USD","id":123231,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":7000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123232/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123232/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123232/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(talmud).  \n  \n bullae diversorum romanorum pontificum incipientes a bonifacio viii usque ad\u2026 paulam iiii, summa cum diligentia excerptae, et in unum redactae.  \n  \n architectonic title-page in red and black. divisional titles. historiated initials. at front are recorded the names of the popes under whose rule the bulls were issued (commencing with bonifacius viii (1294-1303) and concluding with paul iv (1555-59). scattered latin marginalia.  \n ff. (5), 4-126, (1), (8), 48, (2). trimmed, some light foxing, minimal dampstaining, collated in ink in an early hand. contemporary vellum, spine and rear cover lacking. folio. \n [adams b-3184; fumagalli i, 216]. \n  \n rome, antonius bladus, 1559. \n  \n  important compendium of papal bullae. including several directed against the jews. most notably the bull responsible for the burning of the talmud and confining jews to a ghetto.  \n  \n contains all the bulls against the jews issued by paul iii (1534-49), julius iii (1550-55), marcellus ii (april 9, 1555-may 1, 1555), and paul iv (1555-59), including the infamous cum nimis absurdum of 1555, in which the ghettos were instituted.  \n  \n the texts of the following documents regarding the jews appear in the collection:  \n  \n * 1. quod iudei, caeterisque infideles ad agnitionem catholicae fidei venienetes bona patrimonialia\u2026paul iii, march 21st 1542 (ff. 97v.-98r).  \n  \n * 2. privilegia et facultates hebraeis concessae. julius iii, june 14th 1551 (f. 115).  \n  \n * 3. decretum dd. inquisitorum hereticae pravitatis quod comburi debeant omnes libri thalmud hebraeorum. julius iii, august 12th 1553 (ff. 121v.-122r.),  \n  [burning of the talmud].  \n  \n * 4. contra hebraeos retinentes libros in quibus alquid contra fidem catholicam notetur, vel scribatur. julius iii, may 29th 1554 (f. 122).  \n  \n * 5. de prorogatione subsidii\u2026vigesimarum hebraeorum ad triennium. marcellus ii, april 14th 1555 (f. 125v.-126v).  \n  \n * 6. de solutione singulis sinagogis, etiam demolitis, vel ad unam redactis, vel redigendis imposita, & per hebraeos archiconfraternitati cathecu minorum facienda. paul iv, march 23rd 1555 (part ii, ff.1r.-2r).  \n  \n * 7. bulla contra iudaeos aedita\u2026cum nimis absurdum\u2026 paul iv, july 12th 1555 (part ii, f.8). [establishing the ghetto of rome,  prohibiting more than one synagogue in a town, forbidding contact between jews and christians, and imposing on jews distinctive clothing].  \n  \n * 8. bando sopra gli hebrei, de l\u2019ordine che hanno da tenere. paul iv, july 24th 1555 (part ii, ff. 8v.-9r).  \n  \n it was during the counter-reformation in italy in the middle of the 16th century that the church\u2019s centuries-long series of attacks on the talmud had the most far-reaching consequences.  \n in this reactionary climate, a quarrel broke out between rival christian printers of hebrew books in venice. one of them, with the connivance of certain apostates, denounced the works produced by his competitor as containing matter offensive to the catholic church. this developed into a wholesale attack on hebrew literature. after a council of cardinals had examined the matter, the pope issued a decree (august 1553) designating the talmud and related works as blasphemous and condemning them to be burned. on september 9th, 1553, the jewish new year, a huge pyre was set up in rome\u2019s campo de\u2019 fiori, containing thousands of hebrew books that had been seized from jewish homes. subsequently the inquisition ordered all rulers, bishops, and inquisitors throughout italy to take similar action. throughout the remainder of the 16th-century, a complete edition of the talmud could not be found anywhere in italy. \n see yeshiva university museum catalogue, printing the talmud: from bomberg to schottenstein (2005) p. 228. \n  \n  a critical historical record of the counter-reformation's systematic assault on jewish religious and civil life in 16th-century italy, documenting the legal transition from relative tolerance to state-sanctioned persecution.  \n    \n for another copy of this compendium of papal bulls, see kestenbaum & company, sale 28, lot 289."},"estimateMax":15000,"lotNumber":"222","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123232/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":7000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":7500,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:12:25.474Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$10,000 - $15,000","currency":"USD","id":123232,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":10000},{"startPrice":200,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123233/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123233/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(ten lost tribes).  \n  \n  * boudinot, elias.  a star in the west; or, a humble attempt to discover the long lost ten tribes of israel, preparatory to their return to their beloved city, jerusalem.  first edition.  pp. (4), 312. [singerman 252].  \n trenton, nj, 1816.  \n  \n  * edrehi, moses.  an historical account of the ten tribes, settled beyond the river sambatyon, in the east.  first american edition.  english interspersed with hebrew. frontispiece portrait of the author (see rubens 754). extensive list of subscribers throughout the united states. pp. 290, (39), (1 blank). [singerman 1277].  \n philadelphia, for the author\u2019s son, 1853.  \n  \n together, two volumes.  \n variously bound, foxed. v.s."},"estimateMax":600,"lotNumber":"223","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123233/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":200,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":275,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:12:55.528Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$400 - $600","currency":"USD","id":123233,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":400},{"startPrice":250,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123234/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123234/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"twain, mark.  \n  \n harper\u2019s new monthly magazine. volume xcix, number 592.  \n  \n  first appearance  of the celebrated essay by twain: \u201cconcerning the jews\u201d (pp. 527-35). \n trimmed. original printed wrappers. 8vo. \n  \n new york, september, 1899. \n  \n in this essay, the celebrated american writer mark twain explores various aspects of the jewish people and the historical context of antisemitism in europe at the time. twain delves into questions surrounding jewish resilience, perceived stereotypes, and their disproportionate representation in fields such as finance, literature, science, and the arts, relative to their numbers in society. most noteworthy is his conclusion:  \n \u201cif the statistics are right, the jews constitute but one per cent of the human race. it suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the milky way. properly the jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. he is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. his contributions to the world\u2019s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine and abstruse learning are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers\u2026 the egyptian, the babylonian, and the persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream stuff and passed away; the greek and the roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone\u2026 the jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age\u2026 all things are mortal but the jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. what is the secret of his immortality?\u201d"},"estimateMax":700,"lotNumber":"224","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123234/view","tags":["uscollectibles_booksandpaper","uscollectibles","uscollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":250,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":1000,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:13:56.562Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$500 - $700","currency":"USD","id":123234,"category":{"en":"General Judaica, Books & Manuscripts","he":"יודאיקה כללית, ספרים וכתבי יד"},"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":700,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123235/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(vienna).  \n  \n  herz, salomon edler von.  group of s ix autograph letters signed.  \n offers a fascinating glimpse into the private and financial networking of 19th-century jewish banking families.  \n  \n vienna, 1824-25. \n  \n  *  i. five letters to his son, adolph. written between 8th february 1824 and 6th january 1825.  \n  \n  *  ii. one two-page letter of recommendation: dated 5th january 1825, addressed to  amschel mayer von rothschild  (1773-1855), in which salomon von herz introduces his son adolph to the head of the frankfurt-based house of rothschild. von herz mentions that before arriving in frankfurt, adolph spent four months at the rothschild house in paris (then led by james mayer de rothschild).  \n  \n salomon von herz (1743-1825) was a prominent jewish merchant and banker based in vienna. originally from hamburg, he moved to vienna in 1770 and became a partner in the influential arnstein & eskeles bank. he was elevated to the hereditary nobility in 1797, receiving the title \"edler von herz\" for his financial services to the austrian crown. he married the sister of nathan von arnstein, a fellow banker, further solidifying his position in vienna's financial elite. alongside his banking career, he was an active figure in jewish communal affairs."},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"225","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123235/view","tags":["usjudaica_manuscripts","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":700,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":1100,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:14:26.638Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$800 - 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lamentations, to describe the dangerous realities jews faced during the first world war.  \n  \n to provide a sense of the work and the tragic fate it portrays - an extract:  \n \u201cand it came to pass when the czar destroyed the cities of judah and the children of israel were driven out to go into exile\u2026 [came] the wailing of the unfortunate\u2026 from the land that consumes her inhabitants, the empire of the wicked russia. at the command of the czar, the oppressor of the jews, the ferocious russians are eagerly conspiring like hungry wolves against jewish cities and hebrew centers to loot and to carry away. outside, the avenging sword makes mothers childless, and within, the dread of death reigns\u2026 \n \u201cand moreover, they accuse them that they are the enemies of russia, and are siding with the germans. the peasants say that the jews are spies, that it was they who devastated the land of russia.\u201d \n  \n the text ends with the hope that the lord will punish russia, with a plea to god to have compassion on his people, urging the \u201cpowers of the world to cease their bloody warfare and strife, and to restore peace among men.\u201d  \n  \n for details see: \n https://www.yu.edu/library/2018/07/18/echoes-of-eicha-jews-in-the-first-world-war-1917#: ~:text=fine%20equates%20jewish%20suffering%20durin g%20the%20war, for%20world%20war%20i%20for%20the%20ages"},"estimateMax":900,"lotNumber":"229","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123239/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":300,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.351Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$600 - 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a basis for dialogue. the american council for judaism. twenty-second annual conference. chicago, april 29, 1966.  \n 22-typed pages. develops the main principles and beliefs of the acj.  \n  \n  *  6. berger, elmer. new york, june 19, 1967.  \n 2-page typed letter (secretarial copy) written to egidio cardinal vagnozzi. concerning the formal annexation of the city of jerusalem by the state of israel, following the six day war.  \n  \n  *  7. berger, elmer. new york, august 31, 1967.  \n 2-page typed letter (secretarial copy) written to the editor of the new york times. regarding an address by rabbi rubenstein at the international congress of religion in which he refers to the \u2018recovery\u2019 of the city of jerusalem during the six day war.  \n  \n  *  8. berger, elmer. new york, september 6, 1967.  \n 2-page typed letter (secretarial copy) written to arthur j. goldberg, ambassador of the united states to the united nations. request to convey to the representative of czechoslovakia at the un a concern regarding the cancellation of the 1000th anniversary of the establishment of the jewish community in that country. \n  \n the american council for judaism (acj) was founded in 1942 by a group of six reform rabbis who conceived judaism as a religion only and not a nationality. they opposed political zionism and advocated for the full assimilation of jews into american society.  \n however, after the independence of the state of israel in 1948, and even more so following israel\u2019s six day war victory in 1967, most of its members accepted the triumph of the principles held by zionism and threw their support to the new jewish state.  \n today, the acj is still active although its membership has been reduced to a point close to irrelevancy. since events post october 7th, the ajc has undergone a revival. \n  \n reform rabbi elmer berger (1908-96) was the executive director of the american council for judaism from its founding in 1942. in his 1945 book, the jewish dilemma, which argued against zionism, berger asserted that it embraced racial myths about jewish identity. he advocated for jewish assimilation, believing that integration into broader society, rather than nationalism, was the most viable path for jewish survival.  \n berger\u2019s anti-zionist views have been widely utilized by arab and palestinian spokespersons as justifications for their own anti-zionist as well as antisemitic policy positions."},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"240","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123250/view","tags":["usjudaica_documents","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":400,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":400,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:22:37.388Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$800 - 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(examples of the maps from particular editions can be readily differentiated, as indicated by campbell.) in recent years, only editions of 1517 or later have appeared on the market and usually in poor, trimmed examples. thus, this 1506 edition is one of the earliest editions of this map to become available in several years and is especially desirable for its unusually fine condition.  \n  \n according to nebenzahl, the map was based on a lost work by burchard of mt. sion, a 13th century dominican from magdeburg, who made the map to illustrate his pilgrimage to the holy land. with east at the top, the map displays the holy land from damascus and sidon in the north to the red sea in a kind of modified, very high-altitude bird's-eye view. in stylized fashion, each town and city is shown atop a separate mountain separated by walls or rivers. a compact jerusalem with its several walls is at the very center of the map. in this edition, the place names were changed to french from the latin of the lubeck edition. the map appeared in a work entitled la mer des histoires, a history of the world up to the year 1475, which also contained a geographical summary. \n the maps of the holy land that would soon be published after this one in the many editions of the ptolemy atlas, were not based on the prototype used by this map. thus, its highly distinctive visual manner, so redolent of its medieval source, yet still taking a step toward modern mapping, is available to the collector only in the various editions of this map itself. \n  \n see t. campbell, the earliest printed maps, no. 218, pp. 144-51; cf. nebenzahl, maps of the holy land, p. 62."},"estimateMax":10000,"lotNumber":"241","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123251/view","tags":["usjudaica_art","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":6000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.371Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$7,000 - $10,000","currency":"USD","id":123251,"category":{"en":"Holy Land Maps","he":"מפות ארץ הקודש"},"estimateMin":7000},{"startPrice":600,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123252/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"braun, g. & hogenberg, f.  \n  \n hierosolyma urbs sancta, iudeae, totiusque orientis longe clarissima, qua amplitudine ac magnificentia hoc nostro aevo conspicua est. fine hand color; excellent condition. finely framed. \n [cologne, 1575]. superb bird's-eye view of contemporaneous jerusalem seen from the east. at the top of the map (in latin) is engraved: \"this is jerusalem. i have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.\"  \n  \n a most attractive example with fine hand-color of \"the most famous city of judah and the east in her present size and greatness.\" \n see e. laor, maps of the holy land, no. 1040."},"estimateMax":900,"lotNumber":"242","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123252/view","tags":["usart_printsandmultiples","usart","usart_all"],"directSalePrice":600,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.377Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$600 - $900","currency":"USD","id":123252,"category":{"en":"Holy Land Maps","he":"מפות ארץ הקודש"},"estimateMin":600},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123253/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"braun & hogenberg / adrichom, c.  \n  \n ierusalem, et suburbia eius, sicut tempore christi floruit, cum locis in quibus christ passus.  \n  \n fine hand color; excellent condition. 28 x 18 3/4 inches. finely framed. \n  \n [cologne, 1588]. \n  \n  the most detailed, early plans of jerusalem.  \n  \n one of the most important early plans of jerusalem for understanding biblical geography, and one of the most detailed and elaborate as well.  \n  \n over 250 sites are shown and identified on the plan, which depicts biblical-period jerusalem and its surroundings. the braun and hogenberg is an expansion of adrichom's plan of the city published in 1584 and was only one of three double-sheet plans that appeared in the civitatis orbis terrarum, \"the most impressive and elaborate collection of city views ever produced\" nebenzahl, p. 33. \n see laor, no. 1041."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"243","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123253/view","tags":["usart_printsandmultiples","usart","usart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.381Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,000 - $1,500","currency":"USD","id":123253,"category":{"en":"Holy Land Maps","he":"מפות ארץ הקודש"},"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":400,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123254/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"ortelius, abraham.  \n  \n typus chorographicus, celebrium locorum in regno iudae et israhel arte factus a tilemanno stella sigenensi. fine hand color; excellent condition. 13 7/8 x 18 inches. finely framed. [antwerp, 1590]?  lavishly engraved map of the holy land divided into the kingdoms of judah and israel, with an unusually large cartouche. the map's place names and territorial divisions are those of biblical times.  \n  \n maps of ancient geography such as this one were conceived and drawn by ortelius himself, unlike the \u2018modern\u2019 maps in his atlas. the shoreline on the map extends from beirut to el-arish; inland, palestine is shown on both sides of the jordan river, and the map extends as far south as the dead sea.  \n  \n the map bears a date of 1586 but was not published until 1590, suggesting that a great deal of time must have been devoted to its engraving. \n see laor, no. 546."},"estimateMax":700,"lotNumber":"244","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123254/view","tags":["usart_printsandmultiples","usart","usart_all"],"directSalePrice":400,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":400,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:24:37.587Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$500 - $700","currency":"USD","id":123254,"category":{"en":"Holy Land Maps","he":"מפות ארץ הקודש"},"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":1500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123255/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"de jode, g. & c.  \n  \n terrae sanctae quae promissionis terra, est syriae pars ea, quae palaestina uocator, desecriptio, per tylmannu stellam. fine hand color; excellent condition. 12 x 19 3/4 inches. finely framed. [antwerp, 1593]. a rare, pictorially rich map including a large view of contemporaneous jerusalem. the map is after tilemann stella, who produced the most up-to-date map of the holy land available at the time, while the view is based on that of fernando bertelli, also then recently published.  \n  \n the de jode family (gerardus, the father, and cornelis, the son) had the misfortune of attempting to compete in the atlas market with the formidable and well-connected abraham ortelius. the de jodes were and are respected as mapmakers, as evidenced by this work based on then current sources, but they were no commercial match for ortelius. they published a mere two editions of their atlas as opposed to approximately 40 by ortelius. hence, the considerable rarity of de jode maps in today's market. \n see laor, no. 375."},"estimateMax":2500,"lotNumber":"245","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123255/view","tags":["usart_printsandmultiples","usart","usart_all"],"directSalePrice":1500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.387Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,500 - $2,500","currency":"USD","id":123255,"category":{"en":"Holy Land Maps","he":"מפות ארץ הקודש"},"estimateMin":1500},{"startPrice":750,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123256/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"ortelius, abraham.  \n  \n abrahami patriarchae peregrinatio et vita. superb hand-color; excellent. 14 x 18 inches. finely framed. [antwerp, c. 1601-1612]. \"the wanderings of abraham' is among the most elaborate of ortelius's compositions. it demonstrates his combined skills as a cartographer and an artist, and his accomplishment as an historian\" (nebenzahl).  \n  \n unlike most maps in his atlas, this work was composed by ortelius himself and is so indicated on the map. the map is surrounded by 22 fine medallions containing key episodes from the life of abraham. the map attempts to be geographically faithful to the time of abraham. for example, ancient tribal names and territorial divisions are used, and the cities of sodom and gomorra are shown. \n see laor no. 547; nebenzahl 34."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"246","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123256/view","tags":["usart_printsandmultiples","usart","usart_all"],"directSalePrice":750,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":750,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:25:37.739Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,000 - $1,500","currency":"USD","id":123256,"category":{"en":"Holy Land Maps","he":"מפות ארץ הקודש"},"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":50,"sold":false,"available":false,"description":{"en":"(auction catalogues).  \n  \n large quantity of c. 371 judaica auction catalogues.  \n including:  \n christie\u2019s (amsterdam, new york, tel aviv): 43.  \n kestenbaum & company: 68.  \n sotheby\u2019s (london, new york, tel aviv): 106.  \n misc. including: asufa, baranovitch, bloomsbury, greenstein, jerusalem-judaica, parke-bernet, phillips, skinner, swann, etc. 86.  \n  *  with: sotheby\u2019s (new york, tel aviv) - israeli art: 33.  \n  *  and: misc. fine art auction catalogues which contain sporadic lots featuring judaica: 35. \n  \n all profusely illustrated. few duplicates. many with hand-written notes and lists of prices realized laid in.  \n  \n vp, 1940\u2019s-2020\u2019s. \n  \n includes the very earliest judaica auction catalogues to appear in the united states, through until recent times.  \n many such auction catalogues are well regarded among scholarly circles as excellent tools for bibliographic research."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"247","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123257/view","directSalePrice":50,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T21:52:12.135Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,000 - $2,000","currency":"USD","id":123257,"category":{"en":"Illustrated Books","he":"ספרים מאוירים"},"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123258/006/006.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123258/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123258/005/005.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123258/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123258/007/007.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123258/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123258/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-06-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"(bezalel).  \n    \n together seven items, with detailed accounts of the activities of jerusalem\u2019s school of art.  \n each illustrated. original pictorial wrappers. 4to and smaller. \n    \n  *  bezalel. 7. bericht. pp. 66. text in german. berlin, 1913.  \n  \n  *  catalogue: bezalel exposition of jewish arts and crafts from jerusalem. (lower corner of title torn away). text in english. cincinnati, 1914.  \n  \n  *  boris schatz. al omanut, omanim u\u2019mevakreihem. text in hebrew. one of 150 numbered copies signed by schatz. jerusalem, 1924.  \n    \n  *  boris schatz. yalkut bezalel - bezalel archives. quarterly review for bezalel art. volume i, numbers ii and iii-iv. together 2 issues. text in hebrew and english. jerusalem, 1928.  \n  \n  *  boris schatz. 31 oil paintings. pp. 21, (4), 14. text in hebrew and english. an unopened copy. jerusalem, 1929.  \n  \n  *  bezalel national museum. catalogue of the exhibition of hanukah lamps. text in hebrew. jerusalem, 1930."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"248","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123258/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":500,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:26:42.001Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,000 - $1,500","currency":"USD","id":123258,"category":{"en":"Illustrated Books","he":"ספרים מאוירים"},"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":400,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123259/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123259/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/123259/002/002.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(budko, joseph).  \n  \n der babylonische talmud in auswahl. text by jakob fromer.  \n  \n  sumptuously bound in full vellum.  limited edition. finely ornamented double-page frontispiece and title, five decorative divisional title pages and elaborately illuminated initials all elaborately executed by joseph budko. bound in gilt-ruled vellum, upper cover and spine gilt-tooled.    \n  \n text contains select portions of the babylonian talmud translated into german. uncut, printed in two columns.  \n pp. (blanks, 4), 5-169, (3, blanks). covers bowed. folio.  \n  \n berlin, brandussche verlags buchhandlung, 1924. \n  \n it is unclear how few copies of this beautifully printed book were bound in vellum, however certainly such a version seldom appears for auction sale."},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"249","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/76137/lot/123259/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":400,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-06-11T19:42:39.396Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$800 - 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