Lot of memorial books, including rare material. Authentic, valuable material on Jewish history, communities destroyed in the Shoah.
1. Organization of the People of Tarnobrzeg—Dzikow among the Jews, Av 1968. Booklet in memory of the Jewish community of Dzikow, with articles, illustrations, and pictures. The work is a promo for a larger memorial book published in 1973.
2. Memorial for the Fighters of the Krakow Ghetto, 1950. With articles of history and presentation of the plans for the building of a museum in memory of the fighters by a group called Neve Eitan in Beit She’an. Illustrations, plus documents to register to donate for the museum.
3. Sefer Podhaitz—in memory of the Podhajce Jewish community (published 9172), in Galicia, with articles describing the vibrant life of the city and its various movements, as well as articles in memory of the Admor Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac Eichenstein (the Burshtiner Rebbe), who was murdered in the Podhajce Ghetto in 1942.
4. Kehillat Lipcani (Lipcan)—a book in memory of the Lipcani community (1963), from the Serbian belt in Romania. At the beginning is a colorful lithograph from the artist Shlomo Lerner, born in the city.
5. Plock—History of the Ancient Community in Poland; Tel Aviv 1967. Memory book for the Jews of Plock, who include the famous rabbis Rabbi Aryeh Leib Zuntz and Rabbi Avraham of Czechanov, and more. Leaders of the Zionist movement (Nachum Sokolov and Yitzhak Greenbaum) also lived there. Art from Yaakov Gutterman inside.
6. Bobrevisk—a book in memory of the community, Tel Aviv 1967, 2 sections. Bobrevisk is a city in Belarus (Mohaliv district), where the Admor Shmaryahu Noach Schneerson (1852-1923) of the Chabad dynasty worked. Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Etinge and Rabbi Hillel of Poritz and the Radbaz also served there. Very rare as a book documenting Jewish life in Russia.
7. Tarnobrzeg-Dzikow, in memory of the community. Tel Aviv 1973. The book includes a wide page with the history of the Admorim of Dzikow, the Ateret Yeshua, his son the Imrei Noam, grandson of the Ateret Yeshua, and the last Admor Rabbi Alter Yehezkel Eliyahu Horwitz, hy”d. The title page has an emotional dedication from “Naftali Heller”, a survivor of the city: “I Naftali ben Yisrael and Gittel Heller, who remained the only of 8 members of my family, give the book to my daughter…an important and rare book.”
8. Yad L’Yadinitz, in memory of the Jewish community (in Serbia). Tel Aviv 1973. Edited by Mordechai Reicher and Yosef Magen-Shitz.
9. Salonika, City and Mother in Israel, Jerusalem 1977. History of the Jewish community there, from the Institute for the Study of Salonikan Jewry. A number of articles on the deep history of the Jewish settlement there until the Shoah, a valuable historical text on this amazing community.
10. Pinkas Hrubieszów, Tel Aviv 1962. History of the city of Hrubieszów (Lublin district, Poland), edited by Baruch Koplinsky.
11. Piesk and Most. Tel Aviv 1975. Memorial book of the town of Piesk and Mosti, in Belarus, edited by Yehuda Borovsky, articles in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English. Pictures.
12. Drohitshin, ‘Funf Hundert Jahr Yiddish-Leben’—Chicago 1958. Memorial book for the Drahičyn (in Belarus) community, edited by Rabbi Dov Beer Warshavsky. Articles in Yiddish exploring five hundred years of Jewish settlement there, which ended with the Shoah.
13. Berezhany, Neriov, and the Environs—story of the destroyed communities. Haifa 1978. Memorial book for the Berezhany community (Tarnopol district in Galicia). Artilces in Hebrew and English, with illustrations from Bekin Tzofnat.
14. Pinkas Ostraha—memorial book for the Ostraha community, Tel Aviv 1960. Memorial book for city in western Ukraine. Jews would call it “Ot Torah”, after the famous rabbis to come from there, including the Maharsha, the Shla, the Smichat Chachamim, and more. One of the most famous memorial books.
15. HaCholmim v’HaBonim, Tel Aviv 1998. History of the Bonim family in Transylvania, Hungary, and Romania.
16. Yom b’Ghetto Warsaw, 19 September 1941. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 1988. Booklet with photographs from the Nazi soldier Heinz Just, who took them all on one day in the Warsaw Ghetto. They were unknown until the 1980s, amazing original photographs.
All in good condition, variety of conditions.
