Kestenbaum's Early Spring auction of Fine Judaica is, as usual with all our sales, exceptionally broad in Judaic subject matter.
The opening 33 lots are seasonal, being Passover Hagadot. Of particular note is Lot 30.
American-Judaica commences with lot 34. Initial 14 lots are Civil War era carte-de-visite photographs, followed by varied autograph letters and printed books. Of particular note is Lot 50.
The next subsection are Hebrew manuscripts and autograph letters (Lots 68-98). This includes Chassidic materials, Synagogue Pinkas record books, and two very sweet Italian liturgical manuscripts (lots 82 and 83).
Lot 99 commences the section of Printed Books in which both Hebrew texts and books in a multiplicity of other languages are combined. Sprinkled throughout are books from the library of the late Haham Solomon Gaon, especially Sephardic texts, many of which carry inscriptions from the Authors.
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Holocaust-era materials are numbered Lots 149-169.
The penultimate lot in the auction is the first English edition of Theodor Herzl's Jewish State (Lot 228).
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LOT 96:
SPERBER, DOVID
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Sold for: $2,000
Start price:
$
800
Estimated price :
$1,200 - $1,800
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On the full lot's price and commission
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SPERBER, DOVID
(The Gaon of Brashov, 1875-1962). Autograph Manuscript, novellae in Hebrew: Chiddushim on Chumash.
APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED. Covering Parshioth Tazria- VeZoth H’Berachah.
pp. 192. Few light stains. Original ledger. Folio.
Brashov, Romania, c. 1945.
For another autograph manuscript by R. Sperber, see Kestenbaum Sale 99, lot 202.
R. David Sperber was a leading Romanian rabbi in Brașov, central Transylvania from 1925-1950. He authored the responsa Afarsekta De’Anya, Michtam LeDavid and other compositions. Raised into a family of Vizhnitz Chassidim, R. Sperber was a disciple of both Rabbi Moshe Hager of Kosov and R. Meir Arik.
R. Sperber’s presence in Rumania in the years after the Holocaust provided support to a great many survivors and instrumental in the freeing of countless Agunoth. He was a key figure in the re-internment of Admor R. Yisroel Hager of Vizhnitz, accompanying the remains from Oradea to Bnei Brak. R. Sperber subsequently settled in Eretz Israel, where he was appointed to be a member of the Mo’etzes Gedolei HaTorah until his death. (See Otzar HaRabbanim 5075).
