Chess Set - An Amusing Jewish Themed Chess Set, 20th Century (circa 1960s)

Charming painted figures in Jewish religious dress (Tallis, Yarmulke etc), one side with black bases the other side with pink bases. The king 8cm high. Jews have long been associated with chess: according to Moritz Steinschneider (Schach bei den Juden, 1873) Jews first became aquainted with chess in the 10th Century but it was until the 19th Century that they began to make a contribution on a significant scale.

German Seder Plate Karlsbad Circa 1930

German Seder plate by Paul Kuchler, Karlsbad. Gold lettering and design, individual cavities for placing egg, charoseth, etc approx 26 cm diameter

Holocaust Archive Press Photographs - 39 Photos 1940s

An important group of Press Photos documenting first hand the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Includes a poignant photo of the Jewish Rev Hardman of London, Uk and Father Morrison of Dublin giving thelast sacraments beside a communal grave in Bergen Belsen. Archive includes photos of Russian prisonersstarved to death by the Nazis, Germans being made to bury the dead by American or British soldiers and Jewish women from Hungary. Particularly chilling is the photo titled 'Buchenwald Horror Camp' where the accompanying text reads 'Most remarkable were the incidents of human skin. Here is a close up of tattooed and tanned skin. The wife of a Nazi director had a peculiar hobby: when a prisoner was brought in who was tatooed, he was brought in and undressed for her inspection. If she liked his tattooing, he was killed and the piece of skin tanned. She would make purses of it. Once she made a lamp with a large tattooed lampshade. The base of the lamp is made of human bones. Most of the prisons contained political or Jewish prisoners'

Jewish Soldiers in the Franco Prussian War. German Printed Wall Hanging Commorating A Yom Kippur Service at Metz During the Franco Prussian War Germany Circa 1880

Circa 1880. Designed by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (see Treasures of Jewish Heritage, Jewish Museum London, 2006 page 98. Printed in black and red on undyed cotton, inscibed, titled and dated in German and Hebrew, including a poem in German at the corners. Measures approx 67 x 70 cm. See Barnett, R.D., Catalogue of the Jewish Museum London No 664 illustrated plate clxxv. One smallhole.

Nuremberg Trials - Archive of Holocaust Photographs relating to the Nuremberg Triials and Holocaust 1945

A collection of approximately 185 photographs (many press photographs) plus Mauthausen Concentration Camp Plan (44 x 55 cm) , marked prosecution Exhibit 54. The photographs start rom April 1945, just after the liberation of Bergen Belsen fand depict the atrocities of the concentration camps. Some are marked with an exhibit number for use at the trial. Includes about 60 portraits of the defendants from the trials (15.5 x 10.5 cm ) dated August 8th, 1945, as well as scenes from the trials such as people taking the witness stand, judges and court officials. Most are agency photographs and official photographs with Crown Copyright and from the US Army Signal Corps. A number of the photographs relate to the trial of General Oberst von Falkenhorst, and Major Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945) a Norwegian army officere and diplomat who collaborated with the German occupying force (1940-1945) and from whom the term 'quisling' (traitor, collaborator) was coined, and the Hadamar Assylum Atrocity Trial. The photographs vary in size from 25.5 21 cm to some small mugshots. An important and historic archive of one of th emost notprious events of the of the 20th Century. More detailed information can be supplied on request.

Poster Levant Fair, Tel Aviv Tel Aviv circa 1930s

111 x 80 cm. linen backed. (Circa early 30s) on a yellow and blue background advertising the Levant Fair with 80 Pavillions and 1,200 exhibitors in Tel Aviv. Palestine products and exhibitors from many countries. Also advertising the Lunar Park. The words 'Levant Fair' are decoratively repeated at the bottom of the poster in Hebrew and Arabic. The name E.Berli-Joelis inscribed bottom left.

[Poster] Warsaw Ghetto - [Marking the 5th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto 19- IV- 1943 to 19 - IV - 1948] They Fought For Our Glory and Freedom (words in Yiddish top and Hebrew bottom) Warsaw, Wieckowski Press 1948

Poster 70 cm x 50 cm including backing 80 x 61 cm linen backed signed in margins Henryk Hechtkopf. The poster in various shades of brown and grey, dramatically depicts a woman and a man holding rifles breaking through a barbed wire fence. A further Hebrew inscription at the bottom refers to the five years of the Jewish insurgency during theperiod denoted by the dates at the top. Illustrated in Helzel, Witnesses to Jewish History, 1988.

50 Years Palestine Exploration Fund

A Special Service on the Occasion of The Coronation of Their Majesties King George & Queen Elizabeth to Be Held in the Synagogues of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews on Sunday, the 9th of May 1937. London, Bevis Marks 1937

Orig card wrapps, 8vo., 16 + 16 pp text in English and Hebrew. Some soiling Hebrew title page.

A Tribute to O.R.T. from ORT India 1880 - 1980 1980

Orig wrapps 23cm, 16 pp illus vg