ERIK HENNINGSEN (DENMARK 1855-1930). "Morgenturen".
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Arts & Graphics
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kestenbaum· Jun 2023
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(156, 0, 0);">(RABBI'S HANDBOOK).</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(156, 0, 0);">MANUSCRIPT </span>written in Hebrew and German. A pencil inscription on the inner cover reads: “Moshe Politcher 8 Elul 5649 (4 September 1889).” Lists of names.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">pp. 28. Previous owner’s embossed stamp, dampstained. Loose in original boards, broken. 8vo.<br /></span>c. 1889-91</p>
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<p> A manuscript prepared by a performer of weddings, funerals, and circumcisions. Such clergymen were often called a Kol Bo, or “All-In-One, ” as such rabbis occupied a particular niche, in America especially. Many were not ordained rabbis at all, however lack of uniform standards and without the formal rabbinic position as existed in Europe, anyone who could pass as knowledgeable, had only to advertise his services. Many of these ‘Jewish-ceremony-performers’ skirted the issue of how ‘rabbinic’ they actually were, by using the title ‘Reverend.’</p>
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<p> The compiler of this volume appears to have been on the more knowledgeable part of the spectrum, as careful attention is paid by him to the details of Jewish law. Moreover, it is written in a variety of florid and attractive scripts, as one familiar with writing Hebrew.</p>
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<p> The book begins with a generic text of a ketubah for use in a Jewish weddings, both the Aramaic and a German translation, according to the text that appears in Sepher Kerem Shlomo (Pressburg, 1846) by Rabbi Shlomo Haas of Dreznitz.</p>
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<p> Following this are 13 Dinim, laws of the marriage ceremony. Interestingly, this text is not taken from another code, but appears to be the summary of the necessary laws by the author himself.</p>
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<p> The next section are the prayers and blessings recited in the wedding ceremony. This is written in a fine Hebrew hand similar to that used in Torah scrolls, but pointed, for ease of reading. After this is the Birkhat HaMazon used at the end of the wedding feast.</p>
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<p> Following which is a section for death and funeral rites.</p>
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<p> Coming full circle, the final section resumes with the cycle of life, the prayers and blessings at a Circumcision, and the Pidyon Haben redemption ceremony for firstborn sons.</p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(156, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: underline;">Sale-room Notice:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">It is possible the ms is NOT of American origin.</span></p>
FARRÈRE Claude (1876-1957). 24 L.A.S. "Bargone" or "C F", ab - Lot 586
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Books, Maps & Manuscripts
eternitygallery· May 2023
Menachem Gueffen: reclining nude with a robe / Israeli/British/French realism
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Menachem Gueffen, Young Woman Reclining & Mirror/ Israeli/British/French Realism, Print
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Vintage Shell carved portrait 14k yellow gold ring. Fine example
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kestenbaum· Nov 2019
<b>BRESLAUER, LEO (JEHUDA)<br />(Rabbi in Fürth, Bavaria and Washington Heights, New York. 1894-1983).</b>
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<span> Significant personal, communal and scholarly archive. Contained in five book-boxes (unsorted). Large collection of correspondence, manuscripts and related papers; along with personal publications (including drafts), periodicals and other ephemeral printed matter. Contains numerous manuscript notebooks - many extensive - with sermons, memos, notes on scholarly matters, civil affairs, records of interactions with congregants and communal officials, etc. Includes (in German, English and Hebrew): * Religious and communal history of Fürth, with much original documentation (1767-1960). * Detailed records of deaths of synagogue members in Fürth and in New York. * Detailed records of marriages of synagogue members in Fürth and in New York. * Unpublished, completed scholarly manuscripts on Halachah and history. * Many manuscripts with notes on rabbinic topics including Halachah, Talmud, Bible, Aggadah. Also with hundreds of index cards on these topics. * Doctoral dissertation comparing Jewish ‘Kawwana’ (intention and concentration of thought) with the Islamic Nijja and Aristotle’s Prohairesis. * Holocaust-era papers: Including correspondence with congregants serving in the military during World War II; seeking to assist European Jews entry to the United States; German reparation matters. * Correspondence with Agudath Israel leadership (Jacob Rosenheim, Harry Goodman, Mike Tress). * Papers (manuscript and printed) seeking to respond to and combat political Zionism in both America and Israel. Also correspondence with Neturei Karta. * Many copies of Breslauer’s publications: ‘Maurosho’ and ‘Am HaTorah.’ Many other printed pamphlets, newspaper cutting and offprints. * Personal and life-cycle documentation including health, immigration and related papers. * Miscellaneous correspondence, notes for speeches, photographs. Further listing available upon request.</span>
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<br />Born in Kempen-in-Posen (Prussia), Rabbi Dr. Leo (Yehudah) Breslauer studied in Frankfurt’s Torah Lehranstalt (Breuer’s Yeshiva), followed by the Rabbiner Seminar Berlin, where he was ordained by Rabbi David Zvi Hoffman. After serving as a military chaplain, Breslauer was Rabbi in Kiel where he also completed his doctorate. In 1923 he was appointed to lead Fürth’s Alt-Neuschul where he remained until its dissolution by the Nazis. Breslauer subsequently found temporary refuge in Holland, and in 1941, arrived in America. Within a year he founded, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan, Congregation Kehillas Yaakov, which primarily served his former congregants from Fürth, along with other refugees stemming from adjacent towns in Bavaria such as Nüremberg. Washington Heights, new home to some 20,000 German Jews, was where Breslauer sought to maintain and model to his flock, a traditional Orthodox life imbued with High German custom and orientation, amidst the free-spirited nature of American society. This archive provides much material as to how this particular German Orthodox rabbi, with all his varied interests (rabbinic, scholarly, communal and political), sought to make the challenging adjustment from a refined position of leadership in Germany, to the very different society of America with its new, contemporary challenges. In addition to Breslauer’s own unpublished rabbinic scholarship, this archive contains important historical source material pertaining to the two communities Breslauer led over many decades. Also preserved here are files relating to Breslauer’s involvement with various Jewish political parties and other groups, especially Agudath Israel. Much may be gleaned from here in regard to the development of a community of Jews, deeply entrenched in their German roots and traditions, subsequently violently removed to the very different culture of America. The transition would naturally bring about many a range of results: A most notable example was statesman Henry Kissinger and his family, who were members of Breslauer’s synagogue. Indeed Breslauer presided over young Henry’s barmitzvah in Fürth and subsequently conducted the marriage ceremony between 25 year-old Henry and his (first) wife Anne Fleischer, in the Kissinger family apartment in Washington Heights. (See N. Ferguson, Kissinger Vol. I (2015) pp. 225-26). Amidst the abundance of materials concerning the development of Breslauer’s new community in America, we may witness the language of expression moving from German to English – while all along, Breslauer’s personal scholarship continues in Hebrew. Breslauer was a man of both varied and deep scholarship. He was also a man who held opinions which often went against the popular tide. Most strikingly so, his outspoken voice in opposition to the secularism that permeated the Zionist movement and the nascent State of Israel. We find in this archive details of Breslauer’s actions during war-time and especially post-war, where he became a most active voice against political Zionism. An important archive, containing a wide variety of primary documentation, certainly a source of much original study material.
<br />Born in Kempen-in-Posen (Prussia), Rabbi Dr. Leo (Yehudah) Breslauer studied in Frankfurt’s Torah Lehranstalt (Breuer’s Yeshiva), followed by the Rabbiner Seminar Berlin, where he was ordained by Rabbi David Zvi Hoffman. After serving as a military chaplain, Breslauer was Rabbi in Kiel where he also completed his doctorate. In 1923 he was appointed to lead Fürth’s Alt-Neuschul where he remained until its dissolution by the Nazis. Breslauer subsequently found temporary refuge in Holland, and in 1941, arrived in America. Within a year he founded, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan, Congregation Kehillas Yaakov, which primarily served his former congregants from Fürth, along with other refugees stemming from adjacent towns in Bavaria such as Nüremberg. Washington Heights, new home to some 20,000 German Jews, was where Breslauer sought to maintain and model to his flock, a traditional Orthodox life imbued with High German custom and orientation, amidst the free-spirited nature of American society. This archive provides much material as to how this particular German Orthodox rabbi, with all his varied interests (rabbinic, scholarly, communal and political), sought to make the challenging adjustment from a refined position of leadership in Germany, to the very different society of America with its new, contemporary challenges. In addition to Breslauer’s own unpublished rabbinic scholarship, this archive contains important historical source material pertaining to the two communities Breslauer led over many decades. Also preserved here are files relating to Breslauer’s involvement with various Jewish political parties and other groups, especially Agudath Israel. Much may be gleaned from here in regard to the development of a community of Jews, deeply entrenched in their German roots and traditions, subsequently violently removed to the very different culture of America. The transition would naturally bring about many a range of results: A most notable example was statesman Henry Kissinger and his family, who were members of Breslauer’s synagogue. Indeed Breslauer presided over young Henry’s barmitzvah in Fürth and subsequently conducted the marriage ceremony between 25 year-old Henry and his (first) wife Anne Fleischer, in the Kissinger family apartment in Washington Heights. (See N. Ferguson, Kissinger Vol. I (2015) pp. 225-26). Amidst the abundance of materials concerning the development of Breslauer’s new community in America, we may witness the language of expression moving from German to English – while all along, Breslauer’s personal scholarship continues in Hebrew. Breslauer was a man of both varied and deep scholarship. He was also a man who held opinions which often went against the popular tide. Most strikingly so, his outspoken voice in opposition to the secularism that permeated the Zionist movement and the nascent State of Israel. We find in this archive details of Breslauer’s actions during war-time and especially post-war, where he became a most active voice against political Zionism. An important archive, containing a wide variety of primary documentation, certainly a source of much original study material.
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