Auction of Fine Judaica.
Opening highlights stem from venerated Chassidic and Rabbinic leaders, including the Chofetz Chaim, the Satmar Rebbe and the Vishnitzer Rebbe (Lots 1-5).
Among Autograph Letters are those written in Russian by the Lubavitcher Rebbetzin, including inscribed, personal photographs captured shortly before her marriage to the Rebbe (Lots 12-16).
The auction includes a number of rare books that stem from the library of a distinguished European scholar; as well as further offerings that stem from the library of the late Haham Solomon Gaon (1912-94).
Judaic books and manuscripts (non-Hebraic) range from Antisemitica to Zionism, and includes Community Pinkas records, Sephardic and Children's Literature, as well as livres d'artistes.
Utilize the Search-bar to locate books that are of regional interest, including: Australia, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Majorca, Poland, Russia, and elsewhere.
The auction includes a further offering of Americana from a distinguished Private Collection. Focusing on Jews in the American Civil War, featuring photographs, autograph letters and printed books (Lots 117-164).
The penultimate portion of the auction features Fine & Graphic Art (Lots 170-188), including canvases by Israeli artists: Moshe Gershuni, Yosl Bergner and Reuven Rubin. Of particular note, is a large, vibrant oil painting by the celebrated Russian-American Chassidic artist Zalman Kleinman, dated 1973 (see lot 179).
An exceptionally rare drawing by the Anglo-Jewish female artist Kate Salaman, c. 1840's, is Lot 176.
The final 20 lots of the sale are 20th-century ceremonial objects including by Agam, Bier, Sugarman and Wolpert and a number of Bezalel-era items (Lots 189-208).
For any and all inquiries please contact Shaya Kestenbaum: jack@kestenbaum.net.
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LOT 9:
HAGER, LEVI YITZCHAK. (Of Vizhnitz). Autograph ...
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sales tax: 8.875%
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HAGER, LEVI YITZCHAK.
(Of Vizhnitz).
Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew to Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm.
Three pages.
n.p, Friday of Parshath Eikev, 2006.
A friendly letter laden with Torah content concerning the writings and person of Rabbi Yehoshua Baumol, Rabbi Lamm’s grandfather, who had been the rosh yeshiva of the Vizhnitz yeshiva in Europe before emigrating to the United States. The letter displays how Torah can serve as a bridge between different Orthodox communities.
Rabbi Levi Yitchak Hager is the son of the Rabbi Dovid Hager, the present Vizhnitzer Rebbe who heads the Imrei Chaim community in London.
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm (1927-2020) exerted a great influence on the theology and identity of Modern Orthodoxy, which he liked to term ‘Centrist Orthodoxy, ’ through his decades-spanning rabbinic career. Chancellor of Yeshiva University, Lamm was a founder and the first editor of the important journal Tradition and author of Torah Umadda, which formulated and defended the religious concepts underpinning Yeshiva University. He was an expert in disparate fields of Jewish thought, including both Hasidism, as well as the writings of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, the forbearer of the traditional Lithuanian yeshiva system, of which Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan’s Theological Seminary is spiritually descended.
