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Welcome to our Spring K2 Judaica Auction (Kestenbaum Sale number 93) consisting of 226 lots. The subject matter of the auction is divided as follows:
Manuscripts: Lots 1-21
Including ten lots of Pinkas community records (all American), Lots 12-21
Autograph Letters by Rabbinic & Chassidic leaders: Lots 22-77
Americana - Printed Books, Manuscripts & Autograph Letters: Lots 78-96.
Cook-Books (Lots 107-123)
Holocaust-era (Lots 132-151)
Land (and State) of Israel: Lots 152-169
Graphic Art: Lots 188-209.
Including artwork by Yohanan Simon, Chagall, Pilichowski, Abel Pann and Reuven Rubin. Also a magnificent livre-d'artiste by Joseph Budko, issued entirely on vellum, one of just five copies (lot 188)
Ceremonial and Folk Objects: Lots 210-226
Included in the auction are items that relate to Jewish history in: Argentina, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Russia and Spain.
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LOT 40:
HAGER, MENACHEM MENDEL
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Sold for: $1,200
Estimated price :
$
500 - $700
Buyer's Premium: 25%
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HAGER, MENACHEM MENDEL
(Rov of Visheve, 1886-1941). Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew on plain paper.
A letter of recommendation for a yeshiva student named Eliyahu of Serdaheli (Dunaszerdahely, Slovakia).
One page. 8vo.
Visheve: 24th Nissan 1921(?)
Rabbi Hager was a scion of the Kosov and Vizhnitz Chasidic dynasties. His father, Rabbi Yisrael Hager, known as the Ahavas Yisrael (1860-1936) was the third Vizhnitzer rebbe. R. Menachem Mendel was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Vizhnitz Yeshiva before WWI, and from 1921, the chief rabbi and Admor of Visheve (today, Viศeu de Sus Romania).
