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).
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LOT 157:
LEVI, DAVID. A Defence of the Old Testament, in a ...
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LEVI, DAVID. A Defence of the Old Testament, in a Series of Letters Addressed to Thomas Paine.
FIRST EDITION.
pp. 240. Foxed and stained. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, worn, spine distressed. 12mo. Singerman 114.
New York, William A. Davis for Naphtali Judah, 1797.
AN 18TH-CENTURY JEWISH RESPONSE TO PATRIOT THOMAS PAINE.
Anglo-Jewish scholar David Levi (1742-1801) here defends the Hebrew Bible against rationalist critiques of Scriptural authority, voiced by none other than American patriot, Thomas Paine.
Paine made the attack in his 1793 work "The Age of Reason" and Levi's responses are here addressed directly and defiantly to Paine himself. The work is surprising in that most religious defenders of the Bible against Paine’s attacks were Christian, while Levi was of course Jewish. In fact, LEVI IS CONSIDERED THE FIRST JEWISH WRITER TO THEOLOGICALLY DEFEND JUDAISM AS SUCH IN ENGLISH.
The work was distributed by Naphtali Judah, one of the first Jewish booksellers in America.
