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F i n e J u d a i C a . printed booKs, manusCripts, autograph Letters, CeremoniaL obJeCts & WorKs oF art K e s t e n b au m & C om pa n y Wednesday, m a rCh 12th, 2014 K est e n bau m & C o m pa ny . Auctioneers of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Fine Art A Lot 308 Catalogue of F i n e J u d a i C a . PRINTED BOOK S, MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, CEREMONIAL OBJECTS & GRAPHIC A RT ——— To be Offered for Sale by Auction, Wednesday, 12th March, 2014 at 3:00 pm precisely ——— Viewing Beforehand: Sunday, 9th March - 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Monday, 10th March - 10:00 pm - 6:00 pm Tuesday, 11th March - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm No Viewing on the Day of Sale This Sale may be referred to as: “Ozmo” Sale Number Sixty-One Illustrated Catalogues: $38 (US) * $45 (Overseas) KestenbauM & CoMpAny Auctioneers of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Fine Art . 242 West 30th street, 12th Floor, new york, NY 10001 • tel: 212 366-1197 • Fax: 212 366-1368 e-mail: [email protected] • World Wide Web site: www.Kestenbaum.net K est e n bau m & C o m pa ny . Chairman: Daniel E. Kestenbaum Operations Manager: Jackie S. Insel Client Accounts: S. Rivka Morris Client Relations: Sandra E. Rapoport, Esq. (Consultant) Printed Books & Manuscripts: Rabbi Eliezer Katzman Ceremonial & Graphic Art: Abigail H. Meyer Catalogue Art Director and Photographer: Anthony Leonardo Auctioneer: Mark O. Howald (NYCDCA License no: 1460490) For all inquiries relating to this sale please contact: Daniel E. Kestenbaum Order of Sale: Printed Books: Lot 1-246 Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Lots 247-307 Graphic Art: Lots 308-368 Ceremonial Objects: Lots 369– End of Sale Front Cover Illustration: Yom Tov Lipmann Heller Imprisoned in Vienna. Oil on canvas, 1887 (See Lot 318) Back Cover Illustration: Miniature Torah Scroll. Housed within elaborate silver Ark / Bimah (See Lot 406 ) List of prices realized will be posted on our Web site, www.kestenbaum.net, following the sale. — P RINTED B OOKS — 1 ABRAMSKY, YECHEZKEL. Tosefta Chazon Yechezkel Masechet Chulin [commentary on Tosefta Tractate Chulin] FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy with inscription by the author on title-page to his uncle, Rabbi Joseph Konvitz, President of Agudath Harabanim. Plus lengthy marginal notes on ff. 40b-41a in the hand of the author. ff. (2), 42. Original boards. Sm. folio. Jerusalem, Hasepher, 1938. $300-500 ❧ Rabbi Abramsky (1886-1976) served as Chief Rabbi of Slutzk and head of the London Beth Din. Following his retirement he settled in Jerusalem. While living there he also served as a Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. The recipient Rabbi Konvitz (1878-1944), served as a Rabbi in Safed and later emigrated to the United States. [see illustration upper right] 2 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Farissol, Abraham. Igereth Orchoth Olam / Itinera Mundi. Translated and annotated by Thomas Hyde. FIRST LATIN EDITION. Hebrew original and Latin translation face `a face. pp. (1 blank), (16), 196. [Vinograd, Oxford 4; Wing F-438]. * BOUND WITH: Tractatus Alberti Bobovii [Muslim Liturgy and Religious Practices]. Annotated by the Editor Thomas Hyde. Text in Latin and Osmanli (Turkish in Arabic characters). pp. (4), 31, (1 blank). Two works bound in one volume. Very lightly browned. Contemporary vellum- backed marbled boards. Housed in modern solander box. 4to. Lot 1 Oxford, Sheldon Theatre, 1691 and 1690. $500-700 ❧ The Igereth Orchoth Olam is a pioneering work on geography. First published in Ferrara in 1524, it is the first Hebrew book to contain a description of America (chap. 29). Besides its rudimentary description of the “Eretz Chadasha” (The New World), the book also contains a valuable reference to the enigmatic David Reubeni (chap. 14). See D. Ruderman, The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol (1981). [see illustration lower right] 3 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Machzor…Yamim Noraim [prayer service for the Days of Awe]. Two volumes ff. 143 and ff. 144- 288. * Seder Tephilath LeMo’adim [Sukoth prayers]. ff. 168. According to Sephardic rite. Together three volumes. Two engraved frontispieces. Volume for Yom Kippur with penciled instructions. Each volume signed in several places by ABRAHAM SEIXAS, and dated March 20th, 1808. Browned and stained, few leaves loose. Contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, covers detached. 8vo. Amsterdam, Abraham Athias, 1728. $600-900 ❧ New York born Abraham Seixas (1786-1834) was one of the 21 children of Isaac Mendes Seixas, one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange. Another one of the children was Gershom Mendes Seixas, hazan of the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, New York City. Lot 2 1 Lot 4 4 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). (Moses Lopez). A Lunar Calendar, of the Festivals and Other Days in the Year Observed by the Israelites…The whole of which having been carefully examined and corrected its utility has obtained the voluntary acknowledgment and approbation of Rev. Mr. Seixas, the respectable hazan of the K.K. Shearith Israel in New York. pp. (132). Ex-library, lightly browned. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, heavily rubbed, boards detached. 12mo. Singerman 163. Newport, Printed at the Office of the Newport Mercury, 1806. $8000-10000 ❧ First Jewish Calendar printed in America. EXamined and corrected by HAZan Gershom Mendes SeiXas. Only the second book printed for American Jews. Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745–1816) was the minister of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of New York from 1768 to 1776 and again from 1784 to 1816. He was the first native-born Jewish minister in the United States. Aside from two published sermons, this calendar is his only work produced for the American Jewish Community. Among the supplementary material here is a table for determining “the Hour to commence the Sabbath, in the City of New-York,” which “may, with a small variation, answer well for all the Northern States of America.” Also included is a table listing the Torah and Haftarah readings for the Sabbaths and Festivals. See M. Satlow, Two Copies of a Printed Early American Jewish Calendar in Providence, in: Rhode Island Jewish Historical Notes, Vol. 15, no. 3 (November 2009) pp. 416-25. [see illustration above] 2 5 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). The Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia. Includes: “It shall and may be lawful for the people called Quakers and for Jews and persons of all religious persuasions and denominations to solemnize their own marriages in the manner, and agreeably to the regulations that have heretofore been practiced in their respective societies.” (Vol. I p. 396). Two volumes. Pencil marginalia (and doodles) in places. pp. 634, 771. Foxed. Contemporary calf, rubbed. 4to. Richmond, Thomas Ritchie, 1819. $600-900 6 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Laws of the State of New York. Includes: “An Act to incorporate the Society for the Education of Poor Children, and relief of indigent persons of the Jewish persuasion in the city of New York. (Vol. I pp. 154-5). Two volumes. Uncut and unopened. pp. Ex-library, Foxed. Original publisher’s boards, worn. 4to. Albany, E. Croswell, 1831-32. $1000-1500 ❧ Mordecai M. Noah being one of the charter members listed. [see illustration upper right] 7 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Chinuch Dath HaMashiach - Catechesis Religiones Christianae Brevior Hebraice. Translated into Hebrew by William Seaman. This edition edited by Timothy Alden. Introduction in Latin, text entirely in Hebrew. pp. 36. Original printed wrappers. 16mo. Rosenbach 219; Goldman, 1061. Philadelphia, W. Fry, 1821. $1000-1500 ❧ The first book published in America the teXT of which is entirely in Hebrew. [see illustration lower right] 8 (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Laws of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania. Lot 6 Includes (pp. 174-5): “An Act to enable the Hebrew Congregation known by the name and style of Kaal Kadosh Mickve Israel of the city of Philadelphia, to lease on ground rent a lot ground in the city of Philadelphia belonging to said Congregation, and the relief of the Longanian library.” * AND: (pp. 369-70): “An Act to authorize certain alterations in the charter of the United Hebrew Beneficient Society of Philadelphia.” With extensive marginalia throughout. pp. xviii, 649, 53. Later boards, broken, needs rebinding. 4to. Harrisburg, Henry Welsh, 1832. $700-1000 9 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). A Biblical and Theological Dictionary: Explanatory of the History, Manners, and Customs of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations. FIRST EDITION. Five foldout maps. pp. (4), 1003. Browned, few stains. Contemporary tree-calf, rubbed and worn. Thick 4to. New York, J. Collard, 1832. $200-300 Lot 7 3 10 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Longworth’s American Almanac, New York Register and City Directory. Containing an almanac for the sixtieth year of American independence; a list of all the banks and insurance companies in the city, with the names of their respective officers…also, the names, occupation, and place of residence of all heads of families, firms, and those doing business in this city. Page 739 notes the Jews’ Synagogues. pp. 756, 36. Lightly foxed. Original roan-backed printed boards, worn and rubbed. Thick 8vo. New York, George. P. Scott for Thomas Longworth, 1835. $300-500 ❧ David Longworth published his popular almanac and directory annually from 1796 to 1817, after which publication was assumed by Thomas Longworth and continued into the 1840s. 11 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). The Charleston Book: A Miscellany in Prose and Verse. Includes: Isaac Harby: The Fall of Jerusalem (pp. 46-50); Penina Moise: Miriam (pp. 94-5); Penina Moise: The Convict (pp. 363-70). pp. viii, 404. Lightly foxed. Original gilt-tooled boards, rubbed. 8vo. Charleston, Samuel Hart, 1845. $800-1200 ❧ The first Jew to publish a book of poetry in the United States – a woman – Penina Moise (1797-1880) was one of the most prolific and creative writers of poetry on Jewish themes in America.
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    Rabbi Avraham Yizhak HaCohen Kook: Between Exile and Messianic Redemption* Judith Winther Copenhagen Religious Zionism—Between Messsianism and A-Messianism Until the 19th century and, to a certain ex- tute a purely human form of redemption for a tent, somewhat into the 20th, most adherents redeemer sent by God, and therefore appeared of traditional, orthodox Judaism were reluc- to incite rebellion against God. tant about, or indifferent towards, the active, Maimonides' active, realistic Messianism realistic Messianism of Maimonides who averr- was, with subsequent Zionist doctrines, first ed that only the servitude of the Jews to foreign reintroduced by Judah Alkalai, Sephardic Rab- kings separates this world from the world to bi of Semlin, Bessarabia (1798-1878),3 and Zwi come.1 More broadly speaking, to Maimonides Hirsch Kalisher, Rabbi of Thorn, district of the Messianic age is the time when the Jewish Poznan (1795-1874).4 people will liberate itself from its oppressors Both men taught that the Messianic pro- to obtain national and political freedom and cess should be subdivided into a natural and independence. Maimonides thus rejects those a miraculous phase. Redemption is primari- Jewish approaches according to which the Mes- ly in human hands, and redemption through a sianic age will be a time of supernatural qual- miracle can only come at a later stage. They ities and apocalyptic events, an end to human held that the resettling and restoration of the history as we know it. land was athalta di-geullah, the beginning of Traditional, orthodox insistence on Mes- redemption. They also maintained that there sianism as a passive phenomenon is related to follows, from a religious point of view, an obli- the rabbinic teaching in which any attempt to gation for the Jews to return to Zion and re- leave the Diaspora and return to Zion in order build the country by modern methods.