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.

Daily Prayer Book - New editions - With illustrations by Famous Artists - with a Revised Translation by the Reverend Abrahamsons. Coronation edition. Vienna, Jos. Schlesinger 1935

Original cloth, no dj, very good condition. A special edition, with plate on covers of King George VI on his coronation. Gilt edges, 18cm, 641 pp + iii index. In English and Hebrew. Overall condition is very good, there is some wear to hinges of spine.

Dinei Schechita Wall chart. (Laws of Jewish Ritual Slaughter) Budapest, Verlag von M E Lowy's Sohn Circa 1899

A wall chart/poster on the Laws of Schechita. Colour diagram of the lung with accompanying text in Hebrew. Lithograph approx 62 x 48 cm. Some restoration, backed on archival linen.

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

History of the Hampstead Synagogue and Order of Service on the Fiftieth Anniversay and Opening - Sunday, the 24th Ellul, 5702, 6th September, 1942 London, United Synagogue 1942

Orig wrapps.stapled, 8vo, 47 pp self wrapps., a little soiling to front wrapper. Text of the history in English the orderof service is in Hebrew and English.

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'

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.

Optzeci De Ani De Teatru Evreiesc In Rominia 1876-1956 (Eighty Years of the Yiddish Theatre in Roumania) Achzik Yahr Yiddish Teatre In Rumania Bucaresti (Bucharet) [1956]

First edition. Original pictorial wrappers 24x17 cm. Text in Yiddish, 116 pp with 33 pp in Roumanian. Some wear overall a very good copy. A large number of illustration showing portraits of actors, scenes from plays performed, programs and posters. Including full page portrait of Avram Goldfaden

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.

Sefer Maadanei Shmuel AL Kizur Shulchan Aruch on Hilchot Pesach. (Commentary Maadanei Shmuel on the Abridged Shulchan Aruch on the Laws of Pesach.) Fernwald, Yaffa circa 1946

Corners worn wrinkling to back board. Text in Hebrew. Published in the Fernwald DP Camp for the Shearet HaPletah (Survivors).