Auction of Fine Judaica.
Opening highlights stem from venerated Chassidic and Rabbinic leaders, including the Chofetz Chaim, the Satmar Rebbe and the Vishnitzer Rebbe (Lots 1-5).
Among Autograph Letters are those written in Russian by the Lubavitcher Rebbetzin, including inscribed, personal photographs captured shortly before her marriage to the Rebbe (Lots 12-16).
The auction includes a number of rare books that stem from the library of a distinguished European scholar; as well as further offerings that stem from the library of the late Haham Solomon Gaon (1912-94).
Judaic books and manuscripts (non-Hebraic) range from Antisemitica to Zionism, and includes Community Pinkas records, Sephardic and Children's Literature, as well as livres d'artistes.
Utilize the Search-bar to locate books that are of regional interest, including: Australia, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Majorca, Poland, Russia, and elsewhere.
The auction includes a further offering of Americana from a distinguished Private Collection. Focusing on Jews in the American Civil War, featuring photographs, autograph letters and printed books (Lots 117-164).
The penultimate portion of the auction features Fine & Graphic Art (Lots 170-188), including canvases by Israeli artists: Moshe Gershuni, Yosl Bergner and Reuven Rubin. Of particular note, is a large, vibrant oil painting by the celebrated Russian-American Chassidic artist Zalman Kleinman, dated 1973 (see lot 179).
An exceptionally rare drawing by the Anglo-Jewish female artist Kate Salaman, c. 1840's, is Lot 176.
The final 20 lots of the sale are 20th-century ceremonial objects including by Agam, Bier, Sugarman and Wolpert and a number of Bezalel-era items (Lots 189-208).
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LOTTO 7:
BLOCH, ELIYAHU MEIR (Rosh Yeshiva of the Telz Yeshivah ...
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Venduto per: $200
Prezzo iniziale:
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Prezzo stimato :
$300 - $500
Commissione per la casa d'aste: 25%
IVA: 8.875%
Il prezzo e la commissione del lotto completo
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BLOCH, ELIYAHU MEIR (Rosh Yeshiva of the Telz Yeshivah in Cleveland, c. 1894–1955).
Typed Letter Signed, written in English to Louis Broth, on personal letterhead.
One page, with accompanying envelope. Cleveland, 19th October, 1953.
Refusing an invitation to attend the community event entitled “A Night in Israel ” and providing, in explicit form, the reason why.
Rabbi Bloch objected to the appearance of CANTOR MOISHE OYSHER at a Cleveland community fund-raising event:
[The event] “is in no way in accord with the spirit and tendency of such a traditional and chaste institution as the Hebrew Academy, to invite such an immoral and indecent actor… I truly hope that in the future you will exercise more discretion in selecting entertainers, and will seek council from those who are striving with you for the growth of a truly traditional education for the children of Israel.”
R. Eliyahu Meir Bloch was born and educated in Telz (Telshe), Lithuania; he was appointed to the Telz Yeshiva faculty in 1917. After fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe, in 1942 the Yeshiva was reestablished in Cleveland, Ohio, under the leadership of Rabbi Bloch and his brother-in-law, R. Chaim M. Katz. Active in the Agudath Israel since the Marienbad Conference of 1937, R. Bloch played a leading role in the American Agudah.
Hebrew Academy was established in 1943 through the efforts of Rabbis Bloch and Katz in order to provide a Torah-oriented education for Cleveland's Jewish youth. The school is known today as Beis Chinuch HaRav Dessler.
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