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.
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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 32:
(HAGADAH, PARODY).
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(HAGADAH, PARODY).
(ZIONISM). Der Tzionstishe Seder (The Zionistic Seder). Authored by ‘The Pshemishel Zionist’.
pp. 32. Browned. Later wrappers. 12mo.
Przemysl
Viktor Mermelstein, 1894.
While certainly not a formal Hagadah itself, this impassioned appeal for the Zionist cause, riffs off classic texts from the Passover service. For example, the “Incident (Ma’aseh) with Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya” has been altered to the “Incident with Rabbi Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.”
The Four Questions have been replaced with: “Why do all other nations have their own land, language, productive trades and heritage while the Jewish people do not?”
Ultimately, the text suggests, the Jews must redeem themselves from “modern-day Egyptian oppression of European anti-Semitism” with “A mighty hand and outstretched arm” by returning to the Land of Israel.
