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).
£60.00 [Ref: 4501]The Holy Bible, Chumash with Rashi and Targum (In Hebrew) - Shearet HaPletah Maroon cloth, pages yellowed. Munich, Vaad Hatzala 1947
A publication of the Vaad Hatzala an organisation set up to save Jewish people from the Nazis and in the aftermath of the war they provided for the needs of the refugees in Europe. They published numerous religious texts for distribution in the DP camps. This historic book has a dedication to Harry Truman printed on one of the endpapers with a colour flag of the US imposed upon it. The next page has a letter in Hebrew followed by a beautiful colour title page offering the Chumash as a gift to the Shearet Hapleteh (survivors of the Holocaust) There was an extensive Shearet HaPletah literature printed in the period 1945 to 1948. These were items printed and publsihed by the Survivors or for them. The literature runs the gamut of fiction, school books, religious texts anewspapers, periodicals and even includes a chess manual in Yiddish.
£350.00 [Ref: 3069]Berlinsky, S. A Dor Fun Bereishis Munich, Unser Weg 1947
Orig cloth, 21cm, 130 pp Text in Yiddish. Published for the Shearet HaPletah (Survivors)
£85.00 [Ref: 4502]Danzig, Rabbi Abraham Chochmat Adam V'Binat Adam Shanghai -Ezrat Torah, Yeshivat Mir 5745 (1944/5)
Unclear whether original binding, missing backstrip has a linen sort of backstrip. 21cm, 463 + 156 pp Text in Hebrew. Heavily yellowed, fore-edges of some apges chipped. An historic copy of this classic work on Halachah. During WWII there were about 30,000 Jewish refugees in Shanghai including the Mirrer Yeshiva and some other Yeshivot including Chachmei Lublin. To meet the needs of the Yeshiva students and other members of the community over 80 Hebrew books were published in Shanghai during this period. This is one of those books.
£100.00 [Ref: 7311]Emden, Rabbi Yaakov Siddur Beis Yaakov of Rav Yaakov Emden Augsburg with the help of Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin 1948
Orig cloth 24cm, 465 pp Some scuffing and wear and marking especially to top board, hinges shaken, inscription on front free endpaper, pages yellowed.. Produced for the Shearet HaPleateh (Survivors) after the war for use in the DP camps. Issued by Shalom Yossef Carmel formerly of Lodz now in Landsberg. Text in Hebrew.
£185.00 [Ref: 4499]Ganzfried, Rabbi Shlomo [Holocaust] [Holocaust] Kitzur Shulchan Aruch - Abreviated Code of Jewish Law Munich, Vaad Hatzala 1947
Original paper covered boards with cloth spine, 17cm. (3) 263 + (1) pp. Text in Hebrew. Historic Holocaust item, produced for the Shearet HaPleateh (Survivors) after the war for use in the DP camps. Has a printed dedication in Hebrew by Rabbi Aviezer Burstin, himself a Survivor, to his father Rabbi Alter Moshe Mordechai who had been murdered in Treblinka in 1943. Rabbi Aviezer Burstin joined Rabbi Nathan Baruch to work for the Vaad Hatzala in Germany in September 1946. The title page has in Hebrew - Matana Maet Ha Vaad Hatzala L'Shearet HaPletah (A gift from the Vaad HaTzala to the Survivors). Some wear to extremities and browning to pages.
£75.00 [Ref: 4924]Heilpern, Rabbi Shlomo Seder Hadorot Bergen Belsen, Nissan Leizer MiBergil circa 1946
Original cloth, 21cm worn and scuffed, hinges shaken, last couple of pages detached. Published in Bergen Belsen for the Shearet HaPletah (Survivors). Text in Hebrew.
£60.00 [Ref: 4500]Horowitz, Rabbi Yaakov Yitschak (from Lublin) Zichron Zot, Zot Zichoron and Divrei Emett Fernwald (DP Camp), Yaffa 1947
Black cloth, 8vo., 168 + 211 + 176 pp Text in Hebrew pages yellowed. Published in the Fernwald DP camp.
£85.00 [Ref: 4687]