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).
For any and all inquiries please contact Shaya Kestenbaum: jack@kestenbaum.net.
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LOT 156:
(ST. EUSTATIUS). The Edinburgh Advertiser: Bi-weekly ...
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Start price:
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Estimated price :
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Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
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(ST. EUSTATIUS).
The Edinburgh Advertiser: Bi-weekly newspaper. Issue no. 1892, 12th-15th February, 1782.
Complete in eight pages. Containing front-page article CONCERNING THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM THE CARRIBEAN ISLAND OF ST. EUSTATIUS.
Unbound. 4to. Edinburgh, 12th February, 1782.
This Scottish newspaper reports on the events of a Jew named Mr. Hohen (Cohen?) who, along with his co-religionists, was expelled from his home on the island of St. Eustatius, by Admiral Rodney and General Vaughan, Commanding Officers in Chief of His Britannic Majesty’s Army and Navy in the West Indies. Mr. Hohen was found to have illegally sewn a small portion of his money into the lining of his clothing in anticipation of his expulsion. The article reports on the subsequent court-case against him.
Until the year 1781, the Jewish community of St. Eustatius, a tiny island in the Dutch Antilles, located in the north eastern Caribbean Sea, lived relatively peaceful lives. Mostly Sephardim, they maintained close ties to the Amsterdam community as well as to their co-religionists in the New World, especially those residing on the larger island of Curacao, and on occasion with Shearith Israel, the Spanish-Portuguese Congregation in New York. Under Dutch rule, these Jews of St. Eustatius were granted full voting rights and maintained a well-organized Jewish community, including ritual bath, synagogue and cemetery.
In the year 1781, English Admiral George Brydges Rodney occupied St. Eustasius and submitted the Jewish population - by then numbering some one hundred families - to much harassment. The specific cause for Rodney’s vendetta was the fact that the Jews had been supplying the American colonists in their struggle against England. Rodney ordered all male Jews to appear at the city weigh-house. There, they were searched, their valuables confiscated, and thirty of their number forcibly banished from the island. The remaining Jews were held in custody while their property was forcibly sold off. Three years later, the island was restored to Dutch rule.
See I.S. and S.A. Emmanuel, History of the Jews of the Netherlands Antilles (1970) pp. 523-527 1048-1049; J. Hartog, The Jews and St. Eustatius (1976) pp. 11-12.
