Contents: Be-reshit -- Shemot. Also known as Midrash Yelamdenu; is one of the oldest collections of midrashic literature. About 15 complete manuscripts of this midrash are known to exist; only four... Show moreContents: Be-reshit -- Shemot. Also known as Midrash Yelamdenu; is one of the oldest collections of midrashic literature. About 15 complete manuscripts of this midrash are known to exist; only four or five copies are from Yemen. This manuscript contains only minor variants from the first printed edition of Constantinople, 1519, but the order of the portions is different. Illuminated. Written in Yemenite script in black ink; names of Pentateuchal portions are decorated; bound in library buckram. Manuscript is missing a few leaves at the beginning and most of Ṿa-yaḳhel and Peḳude. Sassoon no. 641. Previous owner: David Solomon Sassoon. Show less
Poster with photo of Soviet Jewish prisoner Roald Zelichonok against graphic of brick wall, with text saying he was arrested in 1985 and sentenced to 3 years in labor camp.
Poster for a demonstration on the day of the Reagan-Gorbachev meeting in Geneva with title text and graphic of the first words of the Jewish prayer "Shema Yisrael", containing a Star of David and h... Show morePoster for a demonstration on the day of the Reagan-Gorbachev meeting in Geneva with title text and graphic of the first words of the Jewish prayer "Shema Yisrael", containing a Star of David and hammer & sickle. Show less
Poster with photo of Soviet Jewish prisoner against graphic of brick wall, and text saying he was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to 3 years in labor camp.
Poster with reproduction of a painting envisioning a massive Soviet Jewish exodus depicted in a manner similar to the Hebrews' Biblical exodus from Egypt.