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50 ITEMS: AMERICAN JUDAICA, THE ERUV, PALESTINE

MANDATE, ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE HOLOCAUST, ANGLO

JUDAICA AND OTHER EPHEMERA

1. [SIR HAROLD MACMICHAEL] MURDER! SIR HAROLD MAC

MICHAEL, KNOWN AS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR PALESTINE WANTED

FOR MURDER OF 800 REFUGEES DROWNED IN THE BLACK SEA ON

THE BOAT “STRUMA” Palestine c 1942

Small hand bill 17 x 13 cm. Sir Harold Mac Michael, was the fifth High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine (1938-44). He rigidly implemented the anti-Zionist policy of the 1939 ‘White Paper,’ refusing to admit Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe to Palestine. The Struma was a ship carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to Mandatory Palestine. The British authorities, led by MacMichael, refused to let it dock in Haifa. On the ship’s return to Europe, it foundered in the Black Sea and nearly 800 Jewish passengers were killed. There was only a single survivor. [ref: 19920 ] £350

2. [ANTI-SEMITISM] CAPP, AL - HENRY EDWARD SCHULTZ,

HERMAN WOUK. - MAMMY YOKUM AND THE DOGPATCH MYSTERY New York Anti-Defamation League of the Bnai Brith 1956

Original wrappers, 26cm, 17 un-numbered pages mostly cartoons, there is a foreword by Henry Edward Schultz, the National Chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of the Bnai Brith. Postscript by Herman Wouk, the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. This comic book reprints a fable about prejudice and racial harmony by Al Capp. The story first appeared in Capp's L'il Abner comic strip. It was printed and distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. When a family with square eyes moves into Dogpatch, the round-eyed residents form a mob to drive the newcomers away. When one of the square-eyed children is hurt, Mammy Yokum discovers that what she has in common with the new folks is more important than their differences. She stops the mob and helps her neighbors get to know the new family. Mammy Yokum declares, "We is all square shooters, so we gotta give them folks wif th' square eyes a square deal!! Th' l'il diff'runces between folks shouldn't hide th' big things thass th' same 'bout all of us!!" [ref: 19918 ] £300

3. PHOTO ALBUM RELATING TO THE SS BEN HECHT [ABRIL] - ALIYAH B. Illegal immigrants circa 1947.

38x32cm This album was compiled by a student who travelled to the USA to go to UCLA. He left from Haifa in March 1947. Includes photographs of the crew of the Arbil [renamed the SS Ben Hecht]. It is unclear what the connection the student had to the SS Ben Hecht. Hecht wrote the script for the Bergson Group's production of A Flag is Born,[see next item] which opened on September 5, 1946 at the Alvin Playhouse in New York City. The play, which compared the Zionist underground's campaign in Palestine to the American Revolution, was intended to increase public support for the Zionist cause in the United States. The play starred Marlon Brando and Paul Muni during its various productions. The proceeds from the play [$400,000] were used to purchase a ship [Arbil] that was renamed the SS Ben Hecht, which transported Holocaust survivors to Palestine in March 1947. The Royal Navy captured the ship after it docked, and 600 of its passengers were detained as illegal immigrants and sent to the Cyprus internment camps. The SS Ben Hecht later became the flagship of the Israeli Navy. The crew was imprisoned by the British authorities in Acre Prison, and assisted in the preparations for the Acre Prison break. One the crew was Walter Cushenberry. Tall, 33 years old, originally from Mayfield, Kentucky, he was living in Brooklyn at the time he volunteered for the voyage. Berkovits, who became particularly friendly with Cushenberry, remembered: "As a Black man, he knew what it was like to be kicked around, and he didn't like seeing the Jews get kicked around." Captain Levitan described him as "one of the gentlest men you could ever meet, and he just liked helping out the underdog. The Abril sailed, December 27, 1946, for Southern France and Port du Bouc. March 1, 1947, she left France for Palestine. Her decks were crammed with over 600 Holocaust survivors eagerly looking eastward. While at sea, the Abril was renamed the S.S. Ben Hecht.

Seven days later, March 8, she was spotted by British reconnaissance aircraft. British destroyers intercepted the Ben Hecht. She was boarded, impounded and towed to Haifa under British control. The refugees were sent to the prison camps in Cyprus. The American crew was arrested and sent to the infamous Acre Prison. "Dealing with the American crewmen, however, was more complicated. While the British government pondered their fate, Cushenberry and the rest of the crew were taken to the Acre Prison fortress, where they were jailed alongside members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi underground militia. The album contains about 166 photographs in total. The album starts with him leaving Haifa and the journey to the USA there are 19 photographs of the crew of the SS Ben Hecht. He arrived in NY on April 16th 1947. There are some photographs of NY, his trip across the USA to California and finally photographs of UCLA. [ref: 19219 ] £850

4. HECHT , BEN (1894 - 1964) A FLAG IS BORN New York American League for A Free Palestine, 1946 Original light green wrappers with red title, 31cm, 48 pp + 4 pages of photos. Hecht was a highly successful American screenwriter who became a Zionist and supporter of the Irgun. This play was put on by the American League for A Free Palestine in NY in 1946. There are 4 pages of photographs featuring several New York notables and the cast. Some signs of wear, overall very good condition. A Flag Is Born was a play promoting the creation of a Jewish State in the ancient land of Israel. It opened on Broadway on September 4, 1946. The cast included Paul Muni, Celia Adler and Marlon Brando. Hollywood's most successful screenwriter, Ben Hecht was the playwright. It was directed by Luther Adler with music by Kurt Weill. It was produced by the American League for a Free Palestine, an organization headed by Hillel Kook, known

in America by the anglicized name Peter Bergson. It raised $400,000 which was used to purchase a ship the Arbil renamed as the SS Ben Hecht for the transportation of Holocaust survivors and refugees to Palestine. See previous item. [ref: 18237 ] £250

5. FINN, JAMES. - THE SEPHARDIM, OR THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL London , J G F & J Rivington, 1841. First edition. Attractively rebound with a leather spine. xv + 486 pp + 2 pages publisher’s ads. James Finn, the British Consul in Jerusalem from 1845 to 1863, was a philo-Semite and wrote several works relating to the Jews. [ref: 19883] £350

6. FINN, JAMES- THE JEWS IN CHINA: THEIR SYNAGOGUE, THEIR

SCRIPTURES, THEIR HISTORY, &C London B Wertheim 1843 First edition. Orig cloth, 3 Chinese letters in gilt on top board and on half title. 19cm, 86 pp. Text in English with some Hebrew in the appendix. The cloth is rubbed and tearing at the spine, hinges are cracked. Endpapers have some pencil writing on them. James Finn was the British Consul in Jerusalem (1853-1864). He was sympathetic to the Jewish community and wrote several books relating to the Jews and a couple relating to Jewish people in China of which this is the first. [ref: 9991] £380

7. THE JEWISH

CHRONICLE -

SINGLE ISSUE 1883 Friday, March 23, 1883. London, The Jewish Chronicle 1883. This issue has a long obituary of Sir George Jessel, who was the Liberal MP for Dover. Knighted in 1872, he served as Solicitor

General from 1871-1873, the first practising Jew to hold a governmental office. He was also the first Jewish judge and the first Jew to be a vice chancellor of a university (from 1880 University of London). Wear especially to the edges. [ref: 19896] £45

8. WEINBERGER , MOSES - HA-YEHUDIM VEHA-YAHADUT BE-NU YORK

JEWS AND JUDAISM IN NEW YORK New York, Nuyorker yidishe tsaytung, 1887 Original wrappers, xii + 124 pp. Singerman 3607. Text in Hebrew. A sorry account of the collapse of traditional Jewish life among New York’s immigrants. The Hungarian-born author records the fact that in a city of 100,000 Jews and 130 Orthodox congregations, there are to be found no more than three or four bona fide halachic experts, whereas there are hundreds of “darshanim” or preachers of homiletics (p. 4). However, Weinberger notes the opening of Yeshivath Eitz Chaim, an institution he feels to be well equipped to instill a sense of faith and learning into its charges. Eitz Chaim was the seed which, upon amalgamation with the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Seminary, became New York’s Yeshiva University. See S. Klaperman, The Story of Yeshiva University (1967) [ref: 19858]

£850

9. HEBREW EMIGRANT AID

SOCIETY BERICHT DES PRASIDENTEN

UND SCHATZ. MEISTERS FU ÜR DAS JAHR

1882. New York 1883 Original printed wrappers, 23 cm, 17 pp, 1 leaf, 1 table. Text in German. Split at spine. Worldcat lists one copy at NYPL Singerman - S419 English version Singerman - S117 OCLC 40413924 [ref: 19838 ] £500

10. DICK, ISAAC MEIR . DI SHEYNE

HELENA DI TSVEYTE; EYNE HISTORISHE

GESHIKHTE OYS DER TSAYT DER YAKOBINER IN

FRANKRAYKH 1789.. New York, ML Rodkinson, bidefus shel “Ha-Kol” 1889

Paper covered boards and cloth back-strip, 21cm, 48 pp. Text in Yiddish. Singerman 3779. IM Dick (1808?-1893) was a prolific belletristic Yiddish writer who lived in Vilna. [ref: 19877 ] £200

11. [SULZBERGER, DAVID] FIFTY YEARS WORK OF THE HEBREW

EDUCATION SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA (1848-1898). Philadelphia, Published by the Society 1899

Original red gilt cloth, 25cm, ix + 194 pp. Singerman 5675. There is some wear to the spine ends and a tear on the front free end-paper at the spine. It is No 75 of a thousand copies. [ref: 18773 ] £250

12. JOSHUA SIEGEL. [NEW YORK ERUV] . EIRUV VEHOTZA’AH [ON THE

PERMISSIBILITY OF ERECTING AN ERUV IN MANHATTAN]. New York , 1907.

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. With a map on p. 2 depicting the island of Manhattan from the New York Bay at South Ferry, bounded by the East and Hudson Rivers to the Harlem River in the north and the Third Avenue “El” through the middle. pp. (2), 54. Original grey wrappers 8vo. New York: Wolf Hirschprung / Isaac Rachlin & Partners 1907 An Eruv Permits the transportation of personal objects on the Sabbath, and in this instance, on the Lower East Side of New York. This pamphlet engendered great controversy as to whether an Eruv as proposed, utilizing the rivers and the “El,” was valid or not. Consequently, the author includes here responsa of a number of European rabbis supporting his consenting position (viz. R. Shalom Mordecai Hakohen of Brezan, Aryeh Leibush Halevi Hurwitz of Stanislav and Moses Nahum Jerusalimski of Kielce). The pamphlet was published in two stages: Pages 1-26 were published first and sent to various rabbis for their opinion. Once responses were received, pages 27-54 were published containing supporting responses. A copy of this sold at Kestenbaum & Co in January 2020 for $2,500 USD [ref: 19551 ] £1,250

13. JACOBSON, BENJAMIN

ZEEV. - SEFER TIKUN 'ERUVIN Copenhagen?? Agudat Yisra’el Tshernovits Original wrappers, 24 cm, 29 pp, text in Hebrew. The verso of the title page has a clever dedication, beginning with a play on the word eruv, here used as ‘sweet’, referring to the fact that 22 Tevet 698 (December 26, 1937) is twenty-five years from the founding of the Haburot Mahzikei ha-Da’at in Copenhagen. Immediately below is verse, the initial letter of each line forming an acrostic spelling out the name Michael Shalom Winkel and concluding “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”

(Psalms 111:10). Presentation copy from the author. Rabbi Benjamin Zeev Jacobson was the rabbi of the Machzikei Hadas community in Copenhagen. During the war he fled with his family to Sweden together with the majority of Danish Jews, where he served as the director of the Stockholm branch of the Vaad Hatzala. His wife ran a school for Jewish girls in Lidingo, an island on the outskirts of Stockholm. Some creasing to corners. [ref: 16162 ] £250

14. KASHER, RAV MENACHEM M. AL TIKUN ERUVIN B’MANHATTAN NEW

YORK [ON THE MAKING OF AN ERUV IN

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK] [Jerusalem] Noam 1960 Wrappers, 24cm, 259 - 318 pp. text in Hebrew. Offprint from Noam annual. At the end there is a responsum from Rav Zvi Pesach Frank. There is a stamp of his on the last page. [ref: 19936] £100

15. KASHER, RAV MENACHEM M.

THE MANHATTAN ERUV: FROM THE

WRITINGS OF RAV MENACHEM M. KASHER Based on work by Rav Menachem Mendel Kasher ztl; first published in Torah Sheleimah ...... then expanded under the Title Tikun Eruvin beManhattan (see previous item). Hoboken Ktav 1986 (5476) Original wrappers, 23cm, [ref: 19009 ] £100

16. HUMAN RIGHTS VS NW

LONDON ERUV A researched fact-sheet. London Forum Against Intrusive Eruvs 2003 Original wrappers, 21 cm, 7 pp, text in English. A pamphlet against establishing the North West London Eruv. The Eruv became operational in 2003. Pen inscriptions on wrappers, otherwise very good. No copies on Worldcat or COPAC. [ref: 16361 ] £45

17. MARTIN FEUCHTWANGER PALESTINE AND THE WAR Tel Aviv Olympia - Martin Feuchtwanger 1941

Original wrappers, 34 cm, [ca 60] pp, text in English, Hebrew and Arabic, photos. An album portraying the life in the Mandate Palestine during the war. Photos show British colonial officials as well as representatives of Arab and Jewish leaderships; British and ally (Australian, Czech, Polish) soldiers in Palestine; street scenes from Jerusalem or Hebron; Jewish soldiers on leave in synagogues and kibbutzim, buildings damaged in airaides in Tel Aviv and Haifa. With a foreword by the High Commissioner Harold MacMichael and a fragment of King George’s Christmas message. British and colonial Palestinian flags on the front

cover. Some tearing to spine. [ref: 15365 ] £295

18. BRITISH PLEDGES WITH

REGARD TO THE JEWISH NATIONAL

HOME. London English Zionist Federation c 1922?

Single sheet printed on one side only, 23cm, text in English, fading and fraying to edges. Collection of quotations from British statesmen supporting the idea of the Jewish National Home. Includes words of Winston Churchill, Lord Curzon and Lord Balfour. [ref: 12136 ] £95

19. [PORTRAIT OF CHAIM WEIZMANN] 1957 Photograph of a black and white portrait, 18x20cm, pasted onto card 30x25cm, with Chaim Weizmann's handwritten dedication. [ref: 12109 ] £250

20. SEDER HAGADAH SHEL PESAH : IM PITARON BE-LASHON SEFARADI

: IM KAMA TSUROT AL KOL OTIYOT VEHA-MOFTIM ASHER NA'ASU LE-AVOTENU BE-MITSRAIM VE-AL HA-YAM UVA-MIDBAR Livorno Shlomo Bilforti ve-Havero 1904

Original paper covered boards with cloth spine, 26 cm., 84 p., text in Hebrew and Ladino, ornamented border on title page, illustrated. Browning to some pages, front hinge cracked, some loose pages, spine and boards worn. Yudlov #2271; Ya'ari #1667 [ref: 13557 ] £125

21. SEDER HAGGADAH SHEL

PESACH Amsterdam Hertz Levi rophe and Son In Chasman 1765

Blue cloth, 24cm, 32 leaves. Heavily browned. Passover Haggadah, with the Zli Esh commentary – abridged Zevach Pesach commentary by Rabbi Yitzchak Abarbanel, with a Yiddish commentary, and with illustrations. Amsterdam, [1765]. Wood-cut illustrations. [1], 32 leaves. 22 cm. Ya’ari 155; Otzar HaHaggadot 244. [ref: 19880 ] £385

22. BARION, V WHAT THE

"KEREN HA-YESOD" PROPOSES TO DO. London Keren Ha-Yesod (Palestine Foundation Fund) Original wrappers, 15pp, cover title. Worldcat lists 4 copies, NLI, Harvard, HUC and YIVO. This pamphlet scopes out the objectives of the Keren Hayesod and gives the historical background to it. Namely, to support the implementation of the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo Agreement. [ref: 19900 ] £180

23. [ANTI-SEMITISM]CARTER,

HENRY. TO ALL CHRISTIANS! London The Wyndham Printers Ltd. c 1937 Original wrappers, 20cm, unpag. 3 pp. Minor soiling to bottom of back cover, otherwise in very good condition. He concludes. “Let us, then question ourselves as to what we can do, by attitude of mind and by word and deed, to make clear to our Jewish neighbours that we are their neighbours in spirit as well as by name.” [ref: 12131 ] £100

24. COHEN, SIR ROBERT

WALEY PROBLEMS OF THE ANGLO-JEWISH MINISTRY. 1927

Original wrappers, 22cm, 8pp, text in English. Reprinted from the Jewish Chronicle, August 26th, 1927. Presidential Address delivered before the Inter-University Jewish Federation Summer School at Bangor, August 8th, and briefly reported in the Jewish Chronicle of August 12th. [ref: 17286 ] £95

25. CROSSMAN, RHS AND

FOOT, MICHAEL A PALESTINE

MUNICH? London Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1946 Original wrappers, 18.5cm, 31 pp. Very good condition. Evaluates the situation in Palestine from the point of view of the Labour Party. Crossman was appointed to the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry on Palestine and became a strong supporter of the Zionists. He became a great admirer of Weizmann. [ref: 19897 ] £150

26. CZECHOSLOVAK

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS -

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION

MEMORANDUM OF THE

CZECHOSLOVAK GOVERNMENT: ON

THE REIGN OF TERROR IN BOHEMIA

AND MORAVIA UNDER THE RÉGIME OF

REINHARD HEYDRICH. London Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Department of Information 1942 Original wrappers, 24cm, 101 pp, very good condition. Some wear and tearing to dj at top of spine [ref: 7594 ] £150

27. GRANT, ROBERT, AND

MACAULEY, T. B., AND HUME,

JOSEPH, AND O'CONNELL, D.

SPEECHES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1833, ON MR. GRANT'S MOVING A RESOLUTION

RELATIVE TO THE CIVIL DISABILITIES OF

THE JEWS. London The Proprietors of "The Mirror of Parliament" 1833 Lacks wrappers, 21cm, 29pp, sewn, some soiling to title page, internally clean. [ref: 11656 ] £295

28. GUTTMAN, SIMON DR. (ED.) PESZÁCHI HAGGÁDA Budapest Steiner Armin 1932

Original wrappers, 20cm, 68pp, text in Hebrew and Hungarian, illustrated. Staples rusty, spine and covers heavily worn and soiled, yellowing and some staining to pages. [ref: 12147 ] £85

29. HIS MAJESTY 'S STATIONERY

OFFICE HMSO PALESTINE LOAN. MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING FINANCIAL

RESOLUTION. Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty, May 1934. London, HMSO 1934 Original wrappers, 24cm. 4 pp, very good condition. This relates to a raised by the Government of Palestine and includes a £250,000 provision for “the Re-settlement of Arabs is in conformity with an undertaking given by His Majesty’s Government in 1930 that provision would be made for the re-settlement of those Arabs who might be found, after inquiry, to have been displaced from the lands which they occupied in consequence of the land passing into Jewish hands, and who had not obtained other holdings on which they could establish themselves or other equally satisfactory occupation.” Cmd.

4576 [ref: 6633 ] £125

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30. HOARE, SIR SAMUEL -

REFUGEES: THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO

ENGLISH NATIONAL LIFE London The Woburn Press 1939 A speech delivered by Hoare, the then Home Secretary, on 6 Feb 1939 at a public meeting at UCL organised by the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning. Original wrappers, 21cm, 7 pp, good condition, soiling to covers at edges. [ref: 12132 ] £100

31. ISRAELI RELIGIOUS SOCIETY

EINLADUNGSSCHRIFT ZU O

ÖFFENTLICHEN PRU ÜFUNG DER

UNTERRICHTSANSTALT DER

ISRAELITISCHEN RELIGIONS-GESELLSCHAFT Einladungsschrift zu o öffentlichen Pru üfung der Unterrichtsanstalt der Israelitischen Religions-Gesellschaft... zu Frankfurt am Main [Invitation to public inspection of the Israeli Religious Society... in Frankfurt am Main]. Frankfurt am Main Bro önner’s Druckerei 1870-1871

Bound in modern cloth, 25.5 cm, 88 pp. Two reports from 1870 and 1871 on the educational activities of the Israeli Religious Society in Frankfurt am Main. An overview of school lectures, schedule of exams. Text in German. Rare. [ref: 18406 ] £200

32. THE JEWISH AGENCY

FOR PALESTINE DEVISEN- UND

TRANSFERFRAGEN. NACHTRAG (JUNI

1936) ZUR ALIJAH ; INFORMATION FUER

PALAESTINA-AUSWANDERER Berlin Jewish Agency For Palestine 1936 Text in German = German : 8 Aufl., Fruehjahr 1936 - 57-73 pages ; 32 cm A rare item relating to immigration and Aliyah fron Nazi Germany. Worldcat lists one copy at Leo Baeck Ins NY [ref: 19909 ] £350

33. JEWISH AGENCY FOR

PALESTINE REGISTRATION FOR

JEWISH BRIGADE GROUP London Jewish Agency for Palestine - Narod Press [1944]

Single sheet. 22x 15cm, Contains the statement by Winston Churchill about the Government acceding to the request of the Jewish Agency for Jewish Brigade Group to take part in active operations. It also has the categories of persons eligible for enlistment and the addresses of the registration offices. Some wear and soiling. [ref: 19904 ] £100

34. THE JEWISH

NATIONAL FUND THE DEFENCE OF

THE JEWS AGAINST THE ATTACK OF

ARABS IN EREZ ISRAEL Jerusalem 1929 30cm, 23 leaves. Worldcat lists 2 copies Yale & HUC. The 1929 attacks had a dramatic impact on the dynamics of the Palestine Mandate and on the Yishuv. This rare pamphlet provides contemporaneous insight into the events. [ref: 19919 ] £200

35. JEWISH NATIONAL FUND,

PALESTINE FOUNDATION FUND JEWISH

JERUSALEM PAST AND PRESENT: TWO

MEMORANDA Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Head Offices of the Jewish National Fund and the Palestine Foundation Fund 1939

Orig wrapps 24 cm, 30 pp. Stapled, some age tanning and minor signs of wear. These two memoranda were submitted in 1938 by the Jewish Agency for Palestine to the Palestine Partition Commission. COPAC does not list any copies in UK libraries [ref: 17302 ] £200

36. M. BERNSTEIN

STAMFORD HILL AND THE JEWS

BEFORE 1915 London MBS Publications 1976 Original Wrapper, 24cm, 38pp. It contains maps and photographs and describes the birth of the Stamford Hill Jewish community. [ref: 17289 ] £60

37. M. GORDON LIVERMAN, J.P.

BUILDERS OF THE HOUSE: THE

BACKGROUND OF ANGLO-JEWRY [London] [1944]

Original Wrappers , 21.5cm, 15pp. Some soiling and rusting to wrappers. COPAC lists copies at Cambridge and UCL. Worldcat also lists Harvard, NYPL, Gainsville and Northwestern. Portrays the men who have for two centuries and more, not only helped to build up the Anglo-Jewish Community, but have made valuable contributions to the moral, social and material progress of Great Britain. [ref: 17287] £100

38. MELBOURNE SYNAGOGUE

LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE

MELBOURNE SYNAGOGUE Melbourne Printed by: Saxton and Buckie 1931 Original Wrapper, 21.5cm, 27pp. [ref: 17299 ] £180

39. MELBOURNE

SYNAGOGUE MELBOURNE

HEBREW CONGREGATION

TOORAK ROAD, SOUTH YARRA, S.E.1: CONSTITUTION 1947

Original Wrappers, 21.5cm, 19pp. [ref: 17300] £125

40. MR. NEVILLE LASKI,

K.C. STATEMENT BY MR. NEVILLE

LASKI, K.C ON RETIREMENT FROM THE

PRESIDENCY OF THE JEWISH BOARD OF

DEPUTIES 1933-1939. Original Wrapper, 21.5cm, 15pp. He resigned in 1939 and had been criticized during his tenure. [ref: 17285 ] £100

41. PORUSH, M. M. RABBI OUR CLEAR AND

DECISIVE RIGHTS PRESENTED IN CONNECTION

WITH THE SPECIAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED

NATIONS CONVENED TO DEAL WITH THE

PROBLEM OF PALESTINE. Including a Statement by the late Chief Rabbi A I Kook made in London prior to the issue of the Balfour Declaration. Jerusalem Hamadpis Liphshitz Press 1947

Original Wrappers, 22.5cm, 24pp. Text in English. Translated from the Hebrew Original. [ref: 17282 ] £250

42. SAMSON, ABRAHAM [HEAD

SCHOOL MASTER, 22ND BOMBAY

INFANTRY] THE TRUTH AND DIVINITY OF

THE HOLY WRIT Bombay Printed at Javaji Dadaji’s “Nirnaya-Sagar” Press 1897

Pages numbered in Marathi numerals. In Marathi [52pp] Title page in English and one in Marathi - worn pages yellowed. [ref: 19878 ] £200

43. WARBEY, WILLIAM M.P.,

AND WILKES, LYALL M.P. PALESTINE -

THE STARK FACTS AND THE WAY OUT - A

TRACT FOR LABOUR M.P.S - AND OTHERS. A tract for Labour MPs and others. London 1948 Original wrappers, 21.5cm, 35 pp, very good condition. A publication which outlines the situation in Palestine as it stood c.1947 and the proposed actions for the future from two members of the Labour party. The main aim of this pamphlet is to show the necessity of withdrawing British troops from Palestine, and handing over authority to the UNO Commission. [ref: 18160] £175

44. [WEIZMANN,

CHAIM] BOOK OF GREETING

TO CHAIM WEIZMANN ON HIS

75TH BIRTHDAY Landshut KKL - Keren Kayemet L’yisrael 1949. Oblong green leatherette binding, 32.5 x 22cm. It contains blank greetings to Chaim Weizmann on his 75th birthday. Landshut was a DP camp after the war. [ref: 19908 ] £295

45. Ben Uri - CATALOGUE AND

ACTIVITIES OF THE BEN URI ART

AND LITERATURE SOCIETY. London Ben Uri Gallery 1930 Original wrappers, 25cm, 24 pp, some wear to covers some soiling internally. Illustrated. Ben Uri Gallery in London's catalogue in English. Wolmark illustration on the cover dated to 1930. [ref: 18460] £125

46. BRITISH ORT. THE SOCIETY FOR

THE PROMOTION OF TRADES AND AGRICULTURE

AMONG THE JEWS IN RUSSIA London Offices: 54, Grove End Road, St. John’s Wood, NW8 1921 Original Wrappers, 22cm, 16pp [ref: 17211] £150

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47. [DECKEL, EPHRAIM] BRYCHA - HOME THROUGH THE VALE OF

TEARS 1945 - 1948 The “Brycha” (1948) First edition. This has been rebound in hardcover. The front original wrapper has been preserved on the front board. There is an abrasion at the top left hand corner and there are new end-papers. Oblong - measures approx 34 cm x 24 cm. A little foxing to the title page and one or two other pages. Internally clean overall a very good copy. Ex-library in a very minimal way. No date but circa 1948. Introduction and captions in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. An important photographic book of the journey from Europe and travels to Palestine of the Jewish DPs immediately before the establishment of the State of Israel.

‘In 1945-48, a mass illegal immigration scheme called Bricha, organized and transported more than 100,000 Jews past British patrols and into Palestine. The mass movement, staffed jointly by members of the Sh'erit ha-Pletah and the Jewish armed forces from Palestine, used hachsharot (vocational training farms) and assembly centers in Europe as the staging grounds for moving survivors onto boats and across the Mediterranean Sea.’ USHMM ‘Using documentary photographs and snapshots, many of them rough in the extreme, it charts what happened to those liberated from the concentration camps, the survivors – people both traumatized and destitute …. The book traces yet another Jewish Diaspora, with haunting images of people in groups and columns trudging towards a better future…’ Parr and Badger Vol 2 page 243. It includes a special sections on “ the Exodus” and the camps in Cyprus. [ref: 19934] £750

48. SCHNEERSON , RABBI JOSEF

ISAAC B. SHALOM DOV BER [LUBAVITCH] LIKUTIE DIBURIM VEKUNTRES HATEFFILAH Shanghai ‘Vaad Hadfas Da’ch, 1942 Original paper covered boards and cloth spine. Pagination is 580, 356-400 pp. 9.5x16 cm. On the title page it is stated that the book is published by ‘Vaad Hadfas Da’ch, Shanghai 12th – 13th Tamuz 5702 [1942]’. Pages browned but overall very good condition. The author was the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe. [ref: 19932] £300

49. THE AMERICAN CHRISTIAN PALESTINE COMMITTEE. THE

ARAB WAR EFFORT - A DOCUMENTED ACCOUNT New York City, The American Christian Palestine Committee Original wrappers, 27.5cm, 48 pp, very good condition. Illustrated with a map, photographs and facsimiles of documents. Provides evidence of the active support of the Mufti for Hitler and the Nazis. The pamphlet tries to highlight the dangers of appeasement of the Arabs in trying to establish a peaceful Middle East. [ref: 19935] £275

50. GEBETE W HREND DER

KRIEGSZEIT [PRAYERS DURING

THE WAR] Hamburg, Deutsch-Israelitischer Synagogen-Verband zu Hamburg. S. Nissensohn [1915] Original wrappers, 25cm, 8pp. Text in Hebrew and German. Some wear and soiling. [ref: 19937] £150