Auction 96
FINE JUDAICA: PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, RABBINIC LETTERS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART
By Kestenbaum & Company
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Feb 9, 2022
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
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LOT 15:
(DIASPORA JEWRY).
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Sold for: $400
Start price:
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70
Estimated price :
$150 - $250
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
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(DIASPORA JEWRY).
Four Letters from exotic parts of the Jewish world: Tehran, Kutaisi, Joanina & Lima.
* 1. R. Yedidiah Shofet of Tehran’s Beth Din to R. Zvi Kruger of New York regarding the marital status of a Persian-American immigrant. 1961.
* 2. Request for aid from R. Isaac ben Abraham Nanikishvili of Kutaisi, Georgia. Addressed to Hakham Bashi Chaim Moshe Becerano, Constantinople. 1930.
* 3. Correspondence from Joanina’s Moshe Eliya Nigrin and Cohen with Jerusalem’s Misgav Ladach charity. 1887.
* 4. Gabbaim of the Ashkenazi synagogue in Lima, Peru, describing the difficulties of religious life in their city. Addressed to the Agudath Harabanim of America and Canada. Yiddish. Lima, 1949.
