Large printed poster of a ‘List of Fighters’ competing for the first Knesset of the young State of Israel. [1949.]
The center of the poster features a picture of the founder of Lech”i – “Yair” Avraham Stern, beside a quotation from him about appreciation for the fighters who lost blood in the fight for the establishment of the state.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a list of the contenders.
Poster size: 63.5×47.5 cm. Glued to a linen cloth for preservation and display: 54.5×70.5 cm.
Fine condition. Minimal stains and restored tears.
Binder with 20 color posters depicting life on a kibbutz and a farm, designed for hanging in kindergartens and elementary schools.
Colorful posters with illustrations of various topics: The farmhouse, the stable, in the cowshed, at the beehive, an orchard, the farm’s synagogue, the water tower, in the vineyard, in the orchard, the farm, in the coop, the shepherd and his flock, a dovecote.
[20] posters, placed in their original binder, 34×48 cm.
Overall fine condition. Slight wear in the edges of the binder.
Original black-and-white photograph of Albert Einstein by Ernst Haas, from a photograph series.
16×23 cm. The photographer’s stamp appears on the back.
Very fine condition.
* Shop for second-hand Hebrew books in Vilna, “The Jerusalem of Lithuania.” Approximately 15.5×12 cm.
A printed leaf is affixed to the bottom of the photograph with a description of the photograph.
Vilna at the time was one of the largest centers of Hebrew books in the world, if not the largest. The well-known publishers, Re’em, Levin-Epstein and others were located there. Alongside its new literature, Vilna also boasted important libraries, foremost of which was the famous Strashun library.
* Jewish merchants at the vegetable market in Lodz. Approximately 13.5×9.5 cm.
A printed leaf is affixed to the bottom of the photograph with a description of the photograph.
Overall very fine condition. Light blemishes and aging stains. Adhesive remnants on the back of the photographs. Stamps and handwritten notations.
* The school’s first class: 13 students and their teacher. 13.5×18 cm. Including the original frame. Approximately 29×24 cm.
* The school’s students: 42 students next to the same teacher as above. The photographer’s stamp appears on the back of the photograph. 23×17.5 cm.
An additional photograph is included, possibly not related to the school. 14.5×9 cm.
Total of [3] photographs.
Moderate-fine condition. Stains, abrasions and wear.
* Room in a Yerushalmi institution. Embossed stamp: “Photographer – Zadok Bassan, Jerusalem.”
Without a frame. 22×16.5 cm. Fine condition. Creases and light blemishes. Stains and a rust mark on the back of the photograph.
* Group of children with their melemed . Unstamped.
Photograph size: 16.5×12 cm. Including the original frame: 21×27 cm. The photograph is in moderate-fine condition, with a small perforation and minimal stains. The frame is in moderate condition with tears and lacks as well as blemishes. The layers of the frame are somewhat separated.
Zadok Bassan’s photographs are considered especially professional and high-quality, among other reasons, due to the fact that Bassan was careful to give the photograph a clean, sharp look.
Large photograph depicting community leaders and various scholars at the cornerstone laying ceremony for Hebrew University. Embossed stamp in the lower right corner: “Y. Ben-Dov, Bezalel Jerusalem” 1918.
On the right side is a large decorated canopy, with the cornerstone cast under it for this Zionist intellectual enterprise. Next to a pillar, with his back to the camera, is the activist Mordechai Ben Hillel HaKohen, who ran the ceremony and honored the various invitees to pour the foundation stone. A fabric Beit Midrash L’Morim HaIvri flag is visible in the background.
The National Library preserves photographs taken by Ben-Dov from this event, but they are not identical to this photograph here.
Historic photograph, taken by one of the most prominent Israeli photographers at the beginning of the 20th century.
26.5×19.5 cm.
Moderate condition. Crease at the top across the entire leaf. Stains. Pencilled notation at the back of the photograph.
Original photograph depicting a guard armed with a rifle, riding on a horse and carrying her baby. Ink stamp on the back of the picture.
Important and especially impressive photograph.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of Walter Zadek .
18×24 cm.
Very fine condition. Minimal stains.
Original photograph depicting a Jewish youth carrying a ladder during her work in a field of crops. Ink stamp on the back of the picture.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of
Walter Zadek .
18×24 cm.
Very fine condition. Minimal stains.
Collection comprising [16] beautiful photographs presenting different angles in the stages of the development of the Land of Israel. Official Photo Keren HaYesod stamps on the back of four photographs. Descriptions on the backs of the photographs, some in Hebrew and some in a foreign language.
The pictures were removed from an album presented in appreciation to the renowned scholar and educator Ben Tziyon Luria by the UIA in 1961.
The images include:
Immigrants at the port of Haifa, Arlozorov Street in Tel Aviv, a view of the Hulah Valley in the Galilee, a pioneer guiding a new immigrant working the soil, a guard against the backdrop of the Timna Valley cliffs, guards at Kibbutz Bahan, immigrants arriving at the port on the ship Yerushalyim , a Moroccan girl in Moshav Yad Rambam, a fertilizer and chemicals factory in Haifa, olim in the settlement of Peki’in, a view in Zichron Ya’akov, a phosphate factory in the Negev, Heichal Shlomo in Jerusalem, buildings in Be’er Sheva HaChadashah and more.
Total of [16] photographs. Average size: 16.5×12 cm.
Overall very fine condition. Adhesive remnants on the back of the photographs. Minimal stains.
Important collection consisting of [17] original historic photographs from an important period in the development of the Land of Israel: the establishment of the Chomah U’Migdal settlements. These settlements were established to strengthen the Jewish hold on the Land, and were usually erected in just a single day!
Highlights:
* Establishment of the water and guard tower of Moshav Szold – Authenticated News press photograph. With a printed leaf bearing a description of the photograph.
* Youth loading wood for the water and guard tower of Moshav Szold – Authenticated News press photograph. With a printed leaf bearing a description of the photograph.
* Moshav Nachalat Ya’akov. This moshav was established by the Admo”r of Yablanna, and later united with Kfar Chassidim.
* Four photographs of Kibbutz Tel Yosef.
* Kfar Yechezkel.
* Moshav Beit Yosef.
* Three photographs of Kibbutz Beit Alfa.
* Large group of pioneers ascending to Kibbutz Ein HaShofet.
And more.
Total of [17] photographs. Average size: 16.5×11 cm.
Overall fine-very fine condition. Notations on the backs of the photographs.
Large photograph – hundreds of participants at the Mizrachi conference in Poland. 16-19 Tevet, 1922. Unknown photographer.
Large JNF tree-planting certificate glued to the back of the photograph.
Photograph size – 29×21 cm. Affixed to a thick card sized 29×23 cm.
Fine-very fine condition. Tiny tears in the margins and light scratches. Rubbing-out chafing on the donation certificate.
Large photograph depicting a Jewish family numbering four people wearing fabric arm bands with stars of David.
42×18 cm.
Fine condition. Adhesive marks on the back of the photograph. Light blemishes.
Album with approximately 176 photographs on a unique topic – car and truck accidents, fires in buildings and agricultural areas, and more. The album may have been used by an insurance agent, a security guard or a rescue worker. A significant proportion of the events took place in and around Haifah. 1930s. Intriguing, very rare album.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a description of the contents of some of the photographs.
Approximately 176 photographs, glued or affixed to the album, various sizes. Maximum size: 17×12 cm. Minimum size: approximately 6×4 cm. Album size: 27.5×18.5 cm.
Overall fine-very fine condition. Notations in Hebrew or a foreign language beside some of the photos. Minimal stains and tears. The plates of the binding are dismantled. Wear.
* Young Jewish woman in traditional garb, leaning on a table. Affixed to an official Rasati photographer’s card Soussa, Tunisia.
Maximum size: approximately 10.5×6.5 cm. Very fine condition. Tiny blemishes. Small adhesion on the back.
* Jewish woman in traditional clothes, sitting crosslegged on a stool. Unknown photographer.
Maximum size: approximately 16.5×11 cm. Fine condition. Stains.
Beautiful collection of twenty-nine stereoscopic photographs that create the impression of a three dimensional image for the observer. The first part of the collection deals with photographs of the Land of Israel, and the second deals with familiar Jewish figures from around the world. Various years and publishers.
The photographs include:
A miniature model of the Temple Mount designed by Conrad Schick, Yad Avshalom, Jehoshaphat’s Valley, a general photograph of Jerusalem, Zion Gate, Jaffa Gate, the Tower of David and the new street, a Yerushalmi Jew, the interior of a synagogue in Jerusalem, the Cave of the Patriarchs, a fishing boat in Tiberias, a Samaritan priest, Jewish shoemakers in Mosul, Jews on a street in Baghdad, homes of wealthy Jews in Baghdad, Jewish tombstones, the hat market in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw, Jews in Algeria and more.
[29] photographs. Another photograph is included, without a Jewish context. Average size: 17.5×8.5 cm.
Overall fine condition. Minimal stains and small blemishes.
Interesting collection consisting of [7] paper items from the archives of an important collector, dealing with one of the important mitzvahs in which kohanim are obligated – “To bless His people, Yisrael, with love.”
The collection includes:
* [4] postal postcards, three of which are “Shanah Tovah” cards. Two postcards are undivided on their backs.
* Impressive professional studio photograph. Stamp on the bottom of the photograph and on its back: “Woolf Abrahams, Photographer, Richard Street 12, Commercial Road E.” Size: 15×10 cm. Affixed to the original cardboard: 18.5×13.5 cm.
* Print from an issue of The Graphic from 1889.
* Print from an unknown sefer , apparently from the late 19th century.
Total of [7] paper items, various sizes.
Overall fine-very fine condition. One postcard is slightly blemished. Tear marks at the side of the prints. Minimal stains and wear.
Illustrated postcard depicting a Jewish soldier holding a kapparot rooster – whose head is presented as one of the people in charge of the army!
The top of the postcard bears the traditional text ” Zeh Chalifateinu …” and at the bottom, ” Ketivah V’Chatimah Tovah .” With the artist’s signature (in print): Hartstein. [Budapest, early 20th century.]
Approximately 15.5×10 cm.
Fine condition. Many stains, minimal wear in the margins.
Jew examining his fingernails by the light of a havdalah candle. A wine goblet and spice tower are on the table in front of him. Etching by artist Hermann Struck. His signature appears on the lower left corner (in pencil).
Hermann Struck [1876-1944] was the leading Jewish artist who ascended to the Land of Israel. He contributed to the development of graphic arts in Israel more than any other artist there. Honorable status is reserved for him in Israel’s cultural life. He was born to an Orthodox family in Berlin. At the beginning of his career as an artist, he became famous as one of the most important Jewish artists in Germany following the publication of his famous portrait of Theodor Herzl [ Portrait of Theodor Herzl ] in light of his deep impression of Herzl following their 1903 meeting in Vienna. He published The Art of Etching in 1908, which details the process of printing etchings. The book was very successful and made its author the leading name in the field of etchings in the entire art world. His students included Chagall, Max Liebermann and Jozef Israëls. Struck was an enthusiastic Zionist activist. He ascended to the Land of Israel in 1922 and built his home on the Carmel. He continued visiting his studio in Berlin on an annual basis until 1933 when he started to deal with founding the new Bezalel in the Land of Israel.
17×23 cm. Placed in a passe-partout and wooden frame and covered in glass 34×41 cm.
Very fine condition.
Bar Mitzvah boy wrapped in tallit and crowned in tfillin, lectern and siddur in the background. Etching by artist Hermann Struck. Artist’s signature on the lower right corner (in pencil).
Hermann Struck [1876-1944] was the leading Jewish artist who ascended to the Land of Israel. He contributed to the development of graphic arts in Israel more than any other artist there. Honorable status is reserved for him in Israel’s cultural life. He was born to an Orthodox family in Berlin. At the beginning of his career as an artist, he became famous as one of the most important Jewish artists in Germany following the publication of his famous portrait of Theodor Herzl [Portrait of Theodor Herzl] in light of his deep impression of Herzl following their 1903 meeting in Vienna. He published The Art of Etching in 1908, which details the process of printing etchings. The book was very successful and made its author the leading name in the field of etchings in the entire art world. His students included Chagall, Max Liebermann and Jozef Israëls. Struck was an enthusiastic Zionist activist. He ascended to the Land of Israel in 1922 and built his home on the Carmel. He continued visiting his studio in Berlin on an annual basis until 1933 when he started to deal with founding the new Bezalel in the Land of Israel.
22×17 cm.
Very fine condition.
Impressive color painting. Aquarelle on paper. 20×20 cm.
Signed in the lower right corner: ז. רבן.
Signed a second time in the lower left corner of the passe-partout: Z. Raban.
Very fine condition. Framed.
Stunning original outline for the renowned “Bezalel” art school in Jerusalem. The outline is made of Judaic and floral motifs. Ink and pencil on paper. Jerusalem, pre-1929.
The artist wrote the famous address “Bezalel Jerusalem” on the bottom of the sketch as part of the outline. He marked his stamp: “Ze’ev Raban, Jerusalem” in the margins of the leaf.
[1] leaf placed in a passe-partout. Dimensions: approximately 21.5×10 cm. Including the passe-partout: 33.5×22 cm.
Fine-very fine condition. Minimal stains.
Oil on canvas. Unsigned.
24×34 cm. Including the frame: approximately 30×40 cm. Fine condition. Light blemishes in the frame.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of David Djinzerski .
David was particular not to paint from photographs, and said that he painted his paintings from his memory only. His paintings were exposed to the general public only in his later years, in an exhibition which took place at Beit Ariella in Tel Aviv, and in various places in the United States. He passed away in Brooklyn at the age of 67.
Oil on canvas. Signed on the lower right.
28×21 cm. Framed: 36×43.5 cm. Very fine condition.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of David Djinzerski .
David was particular not to paint from photographs, and said that he painted his paintings from his memory only. His paintings were exposed to the general public only in his later years, in an exhibition which took place at Beit Ariella in Tel Aviv, and in various places in the United States. He passed away in Brooklyn at the age of 67.
