Kestenbaum's Early Spring auction of Fine Judaica is, as usual with all our sales, exceptionally broad in Judaic subject matter.
The opening 33 lots are seasonal, being Passover Hagadot. Of particular note is Lot 30.
American-Judaica commences with lot 34. Initial 14 lots are Civil War era carte-de-visite photographs, followed by varied autograph letters and printed books. Of particular note is Lot 50.
The next subsection are Hebrew manuscripts and autograph letters (Lots 68-98). This includes Chassidic materials, Synagogue Pinkas record books, and two very sweet Italian liturgical manuscripts (lots 82 and 83).
Lot 99 commences the section of Printed Books in which both Hebrew texts and books in a multiplicity of other languages are combined. Sprinkled throughout are books from the library of the late Haham Solomon Gaon, especially Sephardic texts, many of which carry inscriptions from the Authors.
Utilize the Search-bar to locate books that are of regional interest, including: Austria, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Syria.
Holocaust-era materials are numbered Lots 149-169.
The penultimate lot in the auction is the first English edition of Theodor Herzl's Jewish State (Lot 228).
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LOT 13:
(HAGADAH).
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Start price:
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Estimated price :
$200 - $300
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On the full lot's price and commission
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(HAGADAH).
Hagadah shel Pesach.
Numerous illustrations by Sh. Fagenbaum. With a Modern Hebrew commentary by CHAIM A. KAPLAN.
pp. (6), 126, (2), viii, (2). Brittle. Loose in original pictorial boards, lacking spine. 8vo.
Yudlov 2942.
Warsaw
Limud Verlag, 1924
Chaim Aron Kaplan was born in 1880 in Horodyszcze (Haradzisca, now Belarus). He received a Talmudic education at the Yeshiva of Mir, and then studied at the Government Pedagogical Institute in Vilna. Settling in Warsaw in 1902, he established a Hebrew primary school, which he served as the principal of for the next 40 years. He was an advocate of teaching Hebrew as a spoken language, and published several textbooks based on this method. Kaplan visited Palestine in 1936, hoping to settle there, but returned to Warsaw that same year.
Kaplan began keeping a diary in Hebrew in 1933, and with the start of World War II in 1939, made a conscious decision to continue doing so in order to record the events he was eyewitness to, including after he was interned in the Warsaw Ghetto. His diary ended in early August 1942, at which time he had the diary smuggled out of the ghetto for preservation. It is presumed that he was arrested during the round-ups that were taking place in the ghetto at that time, and deported to Treblinka, where he perished. (Adapted from Abraham Katsh, introduction to Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan).
