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 47:
SCHNEERSON, CHAYA-MUSHKA
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Sold for: $4,600
Price including buyer’s premium and sales tax:
$
6,260.31
Start price:
$
1,000
Estimated price :
$2,000 - $3,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On the full lot's price and commission
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SCHNEERSON, CHAYA-MUSHKA
(The Lubavitcher Rebbetzin / Daughter of R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn and wife of the seventh Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 1901-88).
Autograph Letter Signed written to Necha Rivkin of Jerusalem (formerly of Rostov, later of New York and wife of Rabbi Moshe Dov-Ber Rivkin of Yeshivath Torath Emeth in Jerusalem and later, Torah Voda’ath of New York).
Written entirely in Russian, detail inquiry of Nacha Rivkin’s welfare and references the visit to Riga recently paid by Nacha’s husband, R. Moshe Ber Rivkin.
Two pages. Neat folds. 4to. English translation accompanies the lot.
(Riga), no date.
Chaya Mushka Schneerson was the second of the three daughters of the Friediker Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson (Ra’ayatz, 1880-1950), and wife to R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-94), who succeeded his father-in-law’s title as Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1951.
Nacha Heber Rivkin (1900-88) met the Schneerson family in Rostov in 1915 and subsequently became a lifelong friend. In 1920, Nacha married the prominent Chabad Chassid R. Moshe Ber Rivkin (1891-1976), who was sent to Eretz Israel to direct the yeshiva Torath Emeth. Following the 1929 Palestine riots, Nacha and her husband emigrated to the United States where R. Rivkin was appointed dean of Yeshiva Torah Voda’ath, Brooklyn. A leading educationalist herself, Nacha Rivkin was one of the founders of the Shulamith School for Girls in Boro Park.
