Louis Lamm collection of inscribed endpapers, 1670-1899.
אוסף של דפי-מגן מאוסף של לואיס לאם

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Lamm, Louis, 1871-1943, annotator, associated name.

Language:

German

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--17th century--Autographs.

Jews.

Jews--Germany--18th century--Autographs.

Jews--Germany--19th century--Autographs.

Jews--Netherlands--19th century--Autographs.

Jews--Poland--18th century--Autographs.

Jews--Hungary--17th century--Autographs.

Books--Provenance--Specimens.

Books.

Rabbis--Autographs.

Rabbis.

Genre:

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 121 (May 20, 2020) lot 403.

Physical Description:

1 item (13 leaves) : paper.

Place of Publication:

1670-1899.

Language Note:

In Hebrew; 558b, 558h, and 558i have additional inscriptions in German.

Biography/History:

Louis (Yehudah) Lamm, born 1871 in Wittelshofen, Bavaria, murdered with his daughter Ruth Lamm in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp on November 19, 1943; Judaica antiquarian bookseller, collector, and publisher mostly in Berlin, relocating to Amsterdam for his final decade; he published substantial antiquarian Judaica cataloges, and was a part of the creative Judaic art movements in Berlin (for example, he published "Lamm's Pracht Hagadah", Berlin, 1922; he was also part of the founding of the Soncino-Gesellschaft society, Berlin 1924). Following his death, his shop was looted; various items from his collections of historical Jewish documents and community ledgers have since appeared at auctions in the Netherlands, England, Israel, and the United States.

Summary:

This is a collection of Hebrew and German inscriptions on title pages removed from printed Hebrew books, collected and variously notated by Louis Lamm; many of the items are linked to historical Jewish communities, such as 558e (Ichenhausen, Bavaria), 558c (Duisburg, Germany); additional items linked to authors, such as 558h, Judah Leib Teitelbaum in Odesa, Ukraine, offering a presentation copy of his book Alon bakhut to Aaron Adolf de Pinto in The Hague. Items variously identified the printed book from which it was removed, such as 558f, formerly on an octavo edition of the Shulḥan ʻarukh, or 558i, formerly on the editio princeps of the responsa of Jair Ḥayyim Bacharach (Ḥaṿot Yaʼir, printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1699, by Johannes Wust).

Contents:

1. 558a. Inscribed endpaper : [Meppel, Netherlands], [1860?-1870?] / Kantens, Jakob

2. 558b. Inscribed endpaper : [Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany], [October 23, 1783] / Lehman, Aaron Lajb, (Holzhausen)

3. 558c. Inscribed endpaper : [Remagen and Duisburg, Germany], [1804-1821] / Katz, Abraham ben Löb, Rabbi (Duisburg, Germany), active 1801-1824

4: 558d. Inscribed endpaper : [Poland?], [December 26, 1898]

5. 558e. Inscribed endpaper : [Ichenhausen, Germany], [1670-1684] / Simon b. Elieser Chesckiel, (Shimʻon ben Eliʻezer Ḥizḳiyah)

6. 558f. Inscribed endpaper : [Elzach-Emmendingen, Germany?], [1780?-1799?]

7. 558g. Inscribed endpaper : [Bogushevichi, Belarus], [1800?-1830?]

8. 558h. Inscribed endpaper : [Odesa, Ukraine], [1888-1895?] / Teitelbaum, Judah Leib

9. 558i. Inscribed endpaper : [Mainz and Bruchsal, Germany], [1778-1810?]

10: 558j. Inscribed endpaper : [Deutschkreutz, Vaskeresztes (Hungary), Großpetersdorf, Austria], [1800?-1850?]

11. 558k: Inscribed poem mounted on endpaper : [Netherlands], [November 1868] / Halberstadt, Ber ben Avraham

12. 558l: Inscribed endpaper : [Altona, Germany], [1850?-1899?] / Korth, Meshulam ben Mosheh

13. 558m: Inscribed endpaper : [Międzyrzecz and Wolsztyn, Poland], [1816-1825?] / Grieffenhagen, Lion Fischel.

Related Collections:

The David ben Loeb Berlin correspondence, assembled and annotated by Lamm, is UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 559.

The Binswangen (Dillingen an der Donau) Community Documents, assembled and annotated by Lamm, is UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 564.

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 558.

OCLC:

1344512617