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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 134:
(HOLOCAUST).
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(HOLOCAUST).
Menachem Mendel Kirschbaum. Takanoth Eich LeHithnaheg Ka’Eth Be’Epher HaNisraphim.
pp. 4. Brittle, expertly repaired along extremities. Unbound. 4to.
Cracow: 1939
In the early years of Nazi rule in Germany, the Gestapo would on occasion return to loved ones the cremated remains of family members who had been summarily arrested and then murdered in concentration camps. The Gestapo sardonically forced the bereaved families to pay the financial costs for the duration the murdered individual was “housed and fed” before death and only then would they return the body. (It was of course impossible to know whether the ashes were indeed those of the specific family member or not). Throughout history, Orthodox Judaism has taken a very negative view of cremation and is loath to accord honors to the deceased should the remains have been cremated. This stance was by necessity challenged, due to the shocking circumstances surrounding the forced cremation of Jews by the Nazis. In the present pamphlet Chief Rabbi Kirschbaum ruled that given the circumstances, the German Burial Societies are to place the cremated remains into a coffin together with a talith and tachrichin (shrouds) as if the body were fully intact, in order to affirm the traditional Jewish belief in the Resurrection of the Dead. In paragraph 3, Kirschbaum invoked a letter by R. Markus Horovitz of Frankfurt (author Responsa Mateh Levi) “to our Kehillah, ” dated 22nd June 1893, expressing leniency toward those unwillingly cremated. R. Kirschbaum reasoned therefore, that such leniency is certainly called for in the present horrific circumstances. See Y. Rubinstein, Tziyun LeMenachem (1965) for a biography and appreciation of Rabbi Kirschbaum’s writings. According to Rubinstein, since Hebrew printing was no longer permitted by the Nazis, the pamphlet was published by the author’s brother in Cracow (Poland) with the intention to distribute it in Germany itself.
