With much stemming from the estates of three knowledgeable Judaica collectors, this wide-ranging auction contains many sub-categories of Judaica.
The sale is divided as follows:
Lots 1-45: Hebrew Printed Books, including sections of Bindings, Miniatures, and a significant offering of Minhagim Books.
Lots 46-55: Manuscripts, including an autograph letter by Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson.
Lots 56-114 represents Judaica stemming from across the globe, including the United States, England, China, the German-speaking lands, India, the Land of Israel, Poland, Spain and elsewhere. Also included are sections focusing on the Holocaust, Zionism and cook-books.
An offering of illustrated books are in lots 115-134.
A stupendous single owner collection of the very best Holy Land maps are found in lots 138-151.
Graphic Arts are Lots 152-215. Most prominently are nine pictures by Itshak Holtz; a fine portrait by Isidor Kaufmann, as well as art from Samuel Hirszenberg, Jozef Isaëls, Artur Markowicz, Jacques Tissot, Saul Raskin, Boris Schatz and Yohanan Simon, among others.
Ceremonial objects are lots 216 to the end of the sale.
The final lot (332) is the extraordinary pre-war Dreidel collection formed by Arthur Kurzweil.
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LOT 19:
(CEREMONIES). Avraham Klausner. Minhagim.
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Sold for: $4,000
Price including buyer’s premium and sales tax:
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5,443.75
Start price:
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4,000
Estimated price :
$5,000 - $7,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
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(CEREMONIES).
Avraham Klausner. Minhagim.
FIRST EDITION.
Few marginal notes.
ff. 44 (i.e. 40), mispaginated though all complete. Initial few leaves lightly stained, previous owner’s marks. Modern calf. 8vo.
Vinograd, Riva 8.
Riva di Trento, Jacob Marcaria, 1559.
THE FIRST BOOK OF LOCAL RELIGIOUS CUSTOM (MINHAG).
The Jews of Aschkenaz have long been recognized for the particular religious significance they place upon Minhag. Therefore, it is perhaps of little wonder that the first collection of customs emerged from that same community.
Abraham Klausner (d. 1408), an Austrian Talmudist, was the mentor of R. Yisrael Isserlein (author of the Terumath HaDeshen), R. Ya’akov Moellin (the Mahari”l) and R. Yitzhak Tyrnau, cementing his influence in the foundation of the spread of Nusach Aschkenaz and Minhag Literature in general. In fact, the latter two students each wrote their own Sepher Minhagim, no doubt inspired by the reverence their master had for the preservation of custom.
For more on medieval Aschkenaz and Minhag, see I.M Ta-Shema’s, Minhag Aschkenaz HaKadmon (1992) and H. Soloveitchik’s response in his Collected Essays II (2014) pp. 29-69 and 122-201.
