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.
Utilize the Search-bar to locate books that are of regional interest, including: Austria, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Syria.
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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ЛОТ 151:
(HOLOCAUST).
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(HOLOCAUST).
Letter of Resignation of James G. McDonald, High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming From Germany.
Addressed to The Secretary General of the League of Nations. With an Annex containing an analysis of the measures in Germany against "Non-Aryans, " and of their effects in creating refugees.
pp. x, 34. Original printed wrappers, detached. Folio.
London
Headley Brothers, 1935
In 1933 US Ambassador James Grover McDonald was assigned to chair the High Commission for Refugees (Jewish and Others) Coming from Germany. During his time as High Commissioner McDonald sought out numerous avenues for support in his efforts to rescue the suffering German Jews. Multiple appeals to organizations and nation states were made, promises of financial aid were pledged but very few were kept. Ultimately McDonald found himself isolated and thus resigned in protest from the refugee commission over the failure of the international community to pay anything but “lip service” to the plight of Jews fleeing Hitler.
This booklet contains a copy of McDonald's letter of resignation as League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany, as well as an annex containing an analysis of German non-Aryan policy that created the refugee problem.
James Grover McDonald (1886-1964) later served as the first US Ambassador to the newly formed State of Israel.
See M.N. Penkower, Honorable Failures Against Nazi Germany: McDonald’s Letter of Resignation and the Petition in its Support, in: Modern Judaism 30, no. 3 (2010) pp. 247–98.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40926547.
