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[\u201clist of subscribers of telephone networks\u2026in cracow, 1939.\u201d] text entirely in polish. numerous illustrated ads. \n pp. viii, 9-202, (38). browned and stained in places. original four-color printed wrappers, stained and worn from use. sm. folio. \n \n warsaw 1939. the cracow telephone directory, for the year 1939.. an extraordinarily valuable resource for genealogical research. \n \n in addition to cracow itself, the directory includes telephone listings for many towns in the surrounding region. e.g. kielce, oswiecim, radomsk, tarnow, etc. scores of smaller hamlets and villages also feature, often with just a handful of telephone subscribers - even at times, just one or two. - jewish names appear regularly. \n \n entries include a personal name, occupation, street address, and telephone number. a business directory appears at the end. \n \n cracow is poland\u2019s largest city after warsaw. in 1939, 60,000 jews lived there, constituting some 25% of the city\u2019s total population. following the german occupation of september, 1939, all jewish community organizations were forcibly dismantled, a judenrat was set up, followed by a ghetto and then deportations to extermination camps. cracow was the capital of nazi-occupied poland. needless to say, its jews were doomed."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"121","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/37206/lot/120460/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":1500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-08-10T01:38:20.346Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$2,000 - $3,000","currency":"USD","id":120460,"category":{"en":"International Judaica"},"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":800,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/120461/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/120461/002/002.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(poland). \n \n spis abonentów warszawskiej sieci telefonow polskiej akcyjnej spółki telefonicznej i rządowej warszawskiej sieci okregowej rok 1938/39. [\u201clist of subscribers of the warsaw telephone network of the polish joint stock telephone company and the governmental warsaw district network, 1938/39.\u201d] numerous ads. pp. (2), xxviii, (12), 540, (4). browned. original four-color printed wrappers, light wear. sm. folio. \n \n (warsaw 1938). the warsaw telephone directory, for the year 1938-39. \n \n this rare telephone directory, published shortly prior to the nazi occupation of poland, showcases the extraordinary size of the jewish community living in the capital city. i \n \n n addition to warsaw, the directory also includes telephone listings for many surrounding areas. entries include a personal name, occupation, street address, and telephone number. a warsaw business directory appears at the end. \n \n warsaw`s prewar jewish population of more than 350,000 constituted about 30% of the city`s total population. the warsaw jewish community was the second largest in the world, second only to new york city. when soviet troops liberated a devastated warsaw on january 17, 1945 some 174,000 people were left in the city - less than 6% of the prewar population. approximately 11,500 of those survivors were jews. (ushmm)."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"122","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/37206/lot/120461/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":800,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-08-10T01:38:20.348Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$1,000 - $2,000","currency":"USD","id":120461,"category":{"en":"International Judaica"},"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":150,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/120462/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(south africa). \n \n israel abrahams. memorandum on the war, the peace, and the post-war problems of south africa. pp. (4), 27, (1). ex-library. original printed wrappers. 8vo. \n \n \n cape town (1944)."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"123","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/37206/lot/120462/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":150,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-08-10T01:38:20.349Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$200 - $300","currency":"USD","id":120462,"category":{"en":"International Judaica"},"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":3000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/120463/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/120463/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2023-09-20","available":false,"description":{"en":"(spain). \n \n manuscript edict by which king of castile, juan i grants the newly founded monastery of san benito of valladolid an income from the aljama of the jews of valladolid (north central spain). (castile), c.1379. \n \n contemporaneous copy of the original grant from the king of castile of 20,000 maravedís from the annual cabeza del pecho (head-tax/capitation tax) of the jewish aljama (community) of valladolid. \n \n although the document is not dated, it is clear is stems from king juan, as it notes alfonso \"our grandfather\" (king alfonso xi) and enrique \"our father\" (enrique ii, the first trastámara king of castile, who won the throne from his half-brother, pedro i, after a bloody civil war), and even the infante enrique, juan's son (future enrique iii). \n \n the grant is to the female cistercian monastery of santa maría la real de huelgas of valladolid (see https://huelgasreales.es/es/instalaciones/el-monasterio/ ). \n \n juan's father, enrique ii, and his mother, queen consort juana manuel ( https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/13535/juana-manuel ) gave the village called villa vieja (villavieja del cerro?), which was actually a property of the las huelgas monastery, to a nobleman by the name of juan martínez de rojas, lord of monzón y cavia. the nuns went to court to get their property back, and it was soon determined that the village was indeed theirs. but instead of handing it back to las huelgas, king juan decided to compensate the nuns by granting them the money from the capitation tax of the jewish community of valladolid. \n \n the document emphasizes several times that the exchange was done with the explicit consent of the queen mother, juana, who was present during the granting of the charter. her agreement was required, the document says, because valladolid was \"her city\" and thus the money from the aljama was also hers. \n \n noted toward the end of the document is recorded the total amount of the tax is 35,000 maravedís, from which the nuns would receive 20,000. furthermore, should the jews fail to fulfill their financial obligation to the nuns, they will be imprisoned and held without food and drink until they pay. (this was the sort of threatening language that juan's father, enrique, introduced in his grants of jewish taxes to religious institutions. enrique used antisemitic propaganda during the civil war to gain support from municipal councils in northern castile). it was in fact common practice for castilian kings to grant a part of, or the entire amount of taxes from jewish communities to religious institutions. the document must be dated between 1379 - juan's coronation, and 1381 - the year of juana manuel's death, as she was still alive when this charter was granted). the monastery of san benito de valladolid, founded in 1390, took the leading role in the monastic reform of fifteenth-century castile. see maya soifer irish, jews and christians in medieval castile: tradition, coexistence, and change (2016). \n \n see https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/valladolid 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and influence on the city council to actively guard the jewish community. \n these two critical families maintained and promoted the city's traditional residential pattern that was characterized by both jews and christians living side by side in the city as well in the jewish quarter itself. \n \n the carvajals recognized that if they could secure leadership positions in the cathedral of plasencia they could enhance their family\u2019s authority, stature, and economic position in the region. the carvajales offered physical and financial protection and cultural survival to the elite jewish families in return for religious intellectual skills and financial resources. the genesis and maintenance of catholic-jewish cooperation depended on this exchange. if catholic religious biases against jews could be overcome by castilian elites and peasants alike, then the infusion of jewish skills and resources could help propel some catholic families into superior positions within the church and the royal bureaucracy in addition to their existing strengths in the catholic military orders. \n \n for those jews willing to convert to catholicism or to work closely with catholics not only was there the opportunity to find a permanent social space within the broader castilian society but the chance to influence and shape it. perhaps even the prospect of a future that recognized and celebrated both its jewish and catholic religious and cultural roots. \n \n in 1403, perhaps because the carvajals lacked other options to improve their financial well being, this low noble family chose to reinitiate the caballeros\u2019 conflict with the cathedral of plasencia over church taxes. the quarrel was so bitter that bishop diego arias de balboa excommunicated diego garcía de béjarano (a carvajal clansman) as punishment for leading the tax revolt. ultimately, the bishop brought the church\u2019s complaint to the attention of a royal court in cordoba. the carvajals\u2019 attempt to free themselves from these church diezmos failed when the court negotiated a settlement between diego garcía and the cathedral of plasencia in 1410. \n \n an investigation of the caballeros\u2019 conflict with the church, as well as an exploration of familial wealth building during this era, demonstrates that the carvajals pursued their confrontation with the cathedral to improve their economic condition. an unusual outcome of the caballeros\u2019 tax revolt is that it appears to have initiated the carvajal family\u2019s entry into the ecclesiastical and royal administrative world. unlike other placentino caballero clans, the carvajals recognized that if they could secure leadership positions in the cathedral of plasencia they could enhance their family\u2019s authority, stature, and economic position in the region. in fact, in a transformative sequence of events, diego garcía\u2019s brother, garcía gonzalo de carvajal, would become the cathedral\u2019s archdeacon of plasencia and béjar in the 1420s. facilitating the carvajals\u2019 entrance into the cathedral were internal divisions and fissures within the cathedral of plasencia\u2019s leadership chapter. during this era, the santa maría clan, newcomers to plasencia, gained initial access to the cathedral chapter. however, the fernández family of churchmen, the strongest clan on the chapter, largely excluded the santa marías from the church\u2019s lucrative patronage and wealth building opportunities. together, this environment created an opening for the carvajals to form an alliance with the santa marías to garner access, and ultimately control, of the cathedral of plasencia\u2019s chapter. by acquiring mastery of the cathedral chapter, the carvajals and santa marías could harness the church\u2019s impressive ecclesiastical authority for familial gain, as well as benefit from new patronage and financial enhancement opportunities. thus, the carvajal family began its ascension into the ranks of castile\u2019s learned professions in order to overcome the social limitations of their lower noble status, as well as their inadequate economic resources. families in plasencia leveraged their clan\u2019s relations to compete for control over the local church\u2019s primary governing institution\u2014the cathedral chapter\u2014so that they could access valuable church opportunities. \n the carvajals utilized their domination of the cathedral of plasencia to actively guard the jewish community and to maintain the city's traditional residential pattern of jews and christians living side by side. \n \n description further detailing this manuscript testament available upon request. \n \n literature: \n \n * roger louis martínez-dávila, from sword to seal: the ascent of the carvajal family in spain (1391-1516): https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/17987. \n \n * before the collapse of coexistence: catholics jews conversos collaborated in the bishopric of plasencia: https://cryptojews.com/before-the-collapse-of-coexistence/. \n \n * abraham d. lavender & dolores sloan (eds.) the secret jews of spain, portugal, and southern italy: past and present effects of the inquisition (2009) p. 101 and on. \n \n * roger louis martínez-dávila, creating conversos: the carvajal\u2013santa maría family in early modern spain (2018)."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"125","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/37206/lot/120464/view","tags":["usjudaica_manuscripts","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-08-10T01:38:20.352Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$2,000 - $4,000","currency":"USD","id":120464,"category":{"en":"International Judaica"},"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/kestenbaum/cloned-images/120465/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"(antisemitica). \n \n chamberlain, houston stewart. die grundlagen des neunzehnten jahrhunderts [\u201cthe foundations of the nineteenth century.\u201d] first edition. complete in two volumes (intended third volume never published). ex-libris: bohuslav blazek. pp. xvi, 1031. contemporary uniform half-roan marbled boards, rubbed. tall 4to. \n \n munich, f. bruckmann, 1899. \u201chouston stewart chamberlain (1855-1927) was a british-german who successfully promoted german ethno-nationalism, antisemitism, and scientific racism. \n \n this, his best-known book, the two-volume die grundlagen des neunzehnten jahrhunderts became highly influential in the pan-germanic völkisch movements of the early 20th century, and later influenced the antisemitism of nazi racial policy. \n \n the work is a pseudo-scientific \"racial history\" of humanity from the emergence of the first civilizations in the ancient near east to the year 1800. it argues that all of the \"foundations\" of the 19th century, which saw huge economic, scientific and 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qabalistic tree of life diagram with additional errata on verso. crowley\u2019s forthcoming magazine the equinox is advertised on the final two leaves, including a subscription form. pp. x, (2), 54, (4). foxed in places. original red buckram with gilt 777 on upper cover. 8vo. \n \n london & felling-on-tyne, walter scott, 1909. anonymously penned scarce book of magic(k) and qabalistic correspondences propounding relationships between various occult systems. \n \n the first edition of crowley's often reprinted qabalistic compendium, this magical and philosophical reference work is one of the classics of 20th century occultism and mysticism. \n \n complete with the uncommon errata slip laid in with the qabalistic tree of life diagram with additional errata on verso. crowley\u2019s forthcoming magazine the equinox (a classic of the literature) is advertised on the final two leaves, including a subscription form. \n \n the author, aleister crowley (1875-1947), was an english occultist, 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wrappers. 4to. \n \n london, hutchinson, for the polish ministry of foreign affairs, (1943). the first official announcement to the western general public of the nazi's systematic extermination of the jews. \n \n during world war ii, poland maintained a government-in-exile in london. this pamphlet, a government paper issued by poland\u2019s exiled ministry of foreign affairs in london, constitutes the first official announcement of the existence of the final solution and thus, the holocaust. in an appeal to the worlds\u2019 conscience, it details the systematic extermination of the jewish population of poland, with particular emphasis on the mass deportations from the warsaw ghetto to the extermination camp at treblinka. \n \n the facts presented were gathered, at great personal risk, by jan karski (kozielewski), a polish government emissary in occupied poland from 1940 to 1942, \u201cwho was smuggled into the warsaw ghetto and into a concentration camp in the lublin area. the horrors he witnessed marked him deeply and propelled him to become not only the messenger of the polish underground, but to concentrate on giving voice to the suffering of the dying jews. in november 1942, karski reached london, delivered the report to the polish government-in-exile, and set out to meet winston churchill, other politicians, journalists, and public figures. upon completing his mission, karski went on to the united states, where he met with president roosevelt and other dignitaries, and tried in vain to stir up public opinion against the massacre of the jews.\u201d (yad vashem). \n \n cited by lucy dawidowicz in her work, the holocaust and the historians (1983) p. 167, karski's report could not be more explicit in its description of the horrors nor in its plea for help: \"the new methods of mass slaughter applied during the last few months confirm the fact that the german authorities aim with systematic deliberation at the total extermination of the jewish population of poland 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