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“NATIONAL WEEKLY FOR THE SURVIVING REMNANT”

(JUDAICA) (HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS). Unser Welt (Our World) Periodical. Munich and Paris, 1946-51.

Scarce, nearly complete run of the earliest issues of the Zionist newspaper Unser Welt, “Our World,” the “National Weekly for Jewry in Europe,” published in Munich just after World War II and the Holocaust. $15,000.

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A RARE LANDMARK IN BIBLICAL PRINTING

HEBREW BIBLE. Biblia Hebraica Sine Punctis. Oxford, 1750. Two volumes bound as one.

First separate Hebrew Bible printed in England, very rare, preceded only by its appearance as part of the London Polyglot (1655-57). Large-paper copy, printed on thick paper and in a beautiful elaborate contemporary calf binding. $15,000.

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BRITISH EMERGENCY BROADSIDE DECREE REGARDING THE 1929 ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS IN PALESTINE

(JUDAICA) CHANCELLOR, John Herbert. Emergency Decree concerning 1929 Riots in Palestine. Jerusalem, September 4, 1929.

Emergency decree in Hebrew, issued by the British High Commissioner for Palestine, announcing special power to be given to the Courts in conducting trials for those arrested for violent conduct during the 1929 Arab riots over Jewish prayer at the Western Wall. $5500.

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“ON ACCOUNT OF THE RIGHTEOUS WOMEN WE WERE REDEEMED FROM EGYPT”

JUDAICA. Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-Asanah y Kipur. Amsterdam, 1717. Together, two volumes.

Early edition of this liturgical publication printed entirely in Spanish for the Sephardim and Marranos of Amsterdam, the first to be published by the renowned Hebrew printer Solomon Proops, very handsomely bound in full contemporary morocco gilt. $5500.

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THE “JEWISH OATH,” 1846 VENETIAN PRINTING

JUDAICA. Oath of Israelites. Venice, 1846-47.

Scarce 1846 Venetian printing of the oath to be taken by Jews as litigants in the courts, intended to humiliate and to emphasize their alleged perjurous nature, a striking example of a type of discriminatory oath imposed on Jews across the European continent. $5000.

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TWO LARGE SOUVENIR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 1921 12TH ZIONIST CONGRESS IN CARLSBAD

Twelfth Zionist Congress. Zionist Congress Photographs. Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary), 1921.

Two photographs of the 12th Zionist Congress in Carlsbad by photographer Carl Wagner—one of the entire 12th Congress and another of the "HaMizrahi" delegates—sent as a souvenir to one of the congress' delegates, Joseph Seltzer. $5000.

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EXQUISITE 19TH-CENTURY HAND-PAINTED VELLUM BOOK-STYLE TALISMAN BOX CONTAINING A MANUSCRIPT KABBALAH SCROLL

(JUDAICA). Talisman box containing Kabbalah scroll. No place, 19th century.

Beautiful 19th-century vellum book-style Talisman box, wonderfully hand-painted, containing a manuscript Kabbalah scroll. $3500.

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“WHOMEVER HAS ANY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ZIONISTS…
BECOMES A PARTNER IN ACTIONS AGAINST JUDAISM”

(JUDAICA—ZIONISM). Kriath Kodesh [call to Yeshiva students]. Jerusalem, Kislev, 1947-48.

1947 Jerusalem Orthodox broadside against “the Zionists who wish to uproot the Torah,” illustrative of the conflicts among Zionists and other factions in Jerusalem just prior to the creation of the state of Israel. $1800.

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“THE FIRST JEWISH LEARNED ASSOCIATION IN THE NEW WORLD”

JUDAICA (LEESER, Isaac). Constitution and By-Laws… American Jewish Publication Society. Philadelphia, 5606 [1845].

First edition of the 1845 Constitution and By-Laws of Rabbi Isaac Leeser’s groundbreaking American Jewish Publication Society, foundational predecessor to the 1888 formation of the Jewish Publication Society, a pivotal document in American Jewish history, in original wrappers. $1200.

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JOSEPH EZEKIEL RAJPURKAR’S PRAYERS OF THE THREE GREAT
JEWISH FESTIVALS
, 1901 FIRST EDITION, PRINTED IN BOMBAY

(INDIAN JUDAICA—BOMBAY IMPRINT) [RAJPURKAR], Joseph Ezekiel. Mo"adim. The Prayers of the Three Great Jewish Festivals. Bombay, 1901.

First edition of this Bombay-printed liturgy, translated into Marathi by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar, one of the leading Jewish scholars of 19th-century Bombay. $1200.

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"BLESSED ART THOU WHO SENDEST DEATH TO ALL LIVING, BUT WHO WAKEST THOSE WHO DIE TO NEW LIFE"

(JUDAICA). Service for Preparing the Dead for Burial. New York, 1913.

First edition of this English-Hebrew guide to preparing a body for burial in the Sephardic Jewish tradition as followed by the oldest Jewish congregation in America, with essential prayers, instructions for washing the body, and preparing it for burial. $650.

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