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Welcome to our Spring K2 Judaica Auction (Kestenbaum Sale number 93) consisting of 226 lots. The subject matter of the auction is divided as follows:
Manuscripts: Lots 1-21
Including ten lots of Pinkas community records (all American), Lots 12-21
Autograph Letters by Rabbinic & Chassidic leaders: Lots 22-77
Americana - Printed Books, Manuscripts & Autograph Letters: Lots 78-96.
Cook-Books (Lots 107-123)
Holocaust-era (Lots 132-151)
Land (and State) of Israel: Lots 152-169
Graphic Art: Lots 188-209.
Including artwork by Yohanan Simon, Chagall, Pilichowski, Abel Pann and Reuven Rubin. Also a magnificent livre-d'artiste by Joseph Budko, issued entirely on vellum, one of just five copies (lot 188)
Ceremonial and Folk Objects: Lots 210-226
Included in the auction are items that relate to Jewish history in: Argentina, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Russia and Spain.
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Limited viewing is available by APPOINTMENT ONLY.
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LOT 45:
(JERUSALEM).
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Sold for: $750
Estimated price:
$
600 - $900
Auction house commission: 25%
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(JERUSALEM).
Secretarial Letter Signed, written in Hebrew in a fine calligraphic rabbinic hand.
On behalf of an avrech at the yeshiva of the Kollel Ungarn, R. Yosef Chaim Peril and his wife, who were both ill. With three sets of signed endorsements (see below).
One page. Tall folio.
Jerusalem: Erev Shavu’oth 1922
With three sets of signed endorsements. The first, with a paragraph extolling the virtue of this cause, is signed by Rabbi Moshe Yosef Hoffman (1842-1928), Rosh Yeshiva in Dunaszerdahely and Pápa in Hungary, before retiring to Batei Ungarin in Jerusalem in 1905. The second is a similar paragraph by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1848-1932). After this is a note from the Beth Din Zedek of Jerusalem, signed by Rabbi Moshe Nachum Wallenstein (1841-1922) who served as the first head of the Eidah Charedith, Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank, and the Beth Din’s scribe, Rabbi Chaim Mandel.
