Many postcards with Palestinian illustrations and caricatures, nearly all dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict. Also included are stamps, small stickers and a passport.
Overall very fine condition.
Photographs of early construction in Ashdod, Dimona, Karmiel and Haifah. Housing projects and industrial buildings (including the Dagon granaries, Shimshon cement factories and more).
Ephraim Ilani (1910-1999) was an Israeli photographer. He was born in Stuttgart and immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1934. He served in the Hagganah and with the British Police, where he documented many events. In 1951 he was appointed the official Bonds photographer, and he documented the developing Land of Israel, including many photographs of daily life in the new State.
[12] photographs, 18×25 cm. Stamps, signatures and handwritten descriptions on the backs of most of the photographs.
Overall very fine condition.
* Large certificate – confirmation of Haim Nahmias’ joining the national lodge of the Freemasons and Kabbalists in the Land of Israel. With the lodge’s stamp and the chief secretary’s stamp. 1932.
* Large photograph of Haim Nahmias and the bureau members in Jerusalem, 1932.
* Photograph of the members of Lodge no. 45 in B’nai B’rith, “Achi Emet, ” including a start of David that served as a fraternity pendant.
Overall fine condition. The certificate is creased and has aging stains; the photograph is framed.
Four postcards: The Western Wall, Rachel’s Tomb with camels in the foreground, a photograph of the Jewish Quarter including the Churvah synagogue, and a photograph of the Bezalel Academy of the Arts.
[4] postcards, not written. Overall fine-very fine condition, aging stains.
Full set published by Azriel Press, Jerusalem, in the early 1930s, published by the Association of Supporters of the Hebrew University in the Land of Israel, including the original envelope. The photographs include: The opening ceremony by Lord Balfour, Rabbi Kook and others, Beit Wittenberg, Beit Monus Shapira, the chemistry and biology building, the main entrance to the University, Beit David Wolfson, the reading hall at the Library, and the theater’s stage (in memory of Minnie Untermyer).
[8] postcards + envelope.
Overall very fine condition.
Pair of shocking photographs depicting Aryeh Leib Maklef and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Shach after they were murdered by Arab rioters in the 1929 pogroms.
Within the framework of the 1929 riots, the Motza settlement was attacked by residents of the nearby Qalunya Arab village. They broke into the Maklef home and murdered seven people: The father of the family, Aryeh Leib, his wife, their son and two daughters, as well as two guests who were in the home, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Shach and David Galtzer. After the murder, the rioters looted the home and set it on fire. Three of the Maklef children managed to escape the murderers, and the youngest, Mordechai, eventually became the third IDF chief of staff.
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Shach (1847-1929) was a descendant of the Sha”ch and the Vilna Gaon. He ascended in 1904 to Jaffa, and was asked by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook to serve as a dayan at his beit din . He also taught at the yeshivah in Jaffa. He was one of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook’s heter mechirah supporters in 1910. He was murdered during the 1929 riots in Motza.
[2] postcards with photographs, 9×14 cm. Written on the negative: Martyrs of Motza, Rabbi Shach, z”l, 1929″ on one photograph, and “Kedoshei Motza, the Father from Kaliv, z”l, 1929” on the second.
Very fine condition.
Decorative postcard sent to supporters of the Society for the Chareidi Settlement Ramatayim Tzufim, in honor of the new year. Blessings in Yiddish and Hebrew.
The Chareidi settlement Ramatayim Tzufim was an association established by members of the Old Yishuv in Jerusalem in 1921, with the goal of settling lands near Nabi Samuel by residents of Jerusalem, for the purpose of establishing a religious agricultural society there.
[1], 11×14.5 cm. Goldberg Press.
Fine-very fine condition, minimal small stains.
Series 1, postcards 1-8, published by Librairie Antisémite , an antisemitic book publisher based in Paris and run by Charles Davos, editor of the antisemitic newspaper La Libre Parole which became infamous for leading the attacks on Dreyfus.
Each one of the postcards bears an antisemitic citation/saying from Luther, Drumont and others, and the words”Affaire Dreyfus, ” apparently written later.
[8] postcards, very fine condition.
Elegant volume with dozens of photographs of statues, reproductions and engravings, in a special numbered edition of 30 copies. Each one of these copies is signed by the artist. Fine-very fine condition. Aging stains.
Stephan Abel Sinding (1846 – 1922) was a Danish-Norwegian sculptor who sculpted in a realist style as well as a symbolist style. He studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, where he studied drawing and modeling, later studying sculpture with the sculptor Albert Wolf in Berlin. From 1874–1875 he studied in Paris in a realist style, where he drew inspiration mainly from August Rodin and Paul Dubois.
He gained little recognition in Norway as he was considered too modern. Sinding moved to Copenhagen in 1883 where he gained recognition. He held an exhibition at the Paris World’s Fair (1889) and served as a consulting professor. Sinding moved to Paris in 1910 where he lived until the day he died.
Large poster – portraits of 18 Jewish sages throughout the generations.
Published by Beit Sefer HaKlali (Talmud Torah), Vienna, 1933. Rare.
Framed. Poster size: 49×69 cm. Including the frame: 66×86 cm.
Fine condition. Slight aging stains. Hole and small blemish in the upper part of the poster.
Large photograph – Two Hebrew workers pulling a net loaded with fish in Kibbutz Deganiah – “Mother of kvutzot and kibbutzim .” Unknown photographer.
Handwritten on the back of one of the photographs: “Kibbutz Deganiah, fish ponds, 1919.”
Size: Approximately 18×23 cm.
Fine condition. Light scratches and peelings. The photograph is slightly faded. Old framing marks.
Collection of Shanah Tovah greetings in Hebrew and in English. Six of them are pop-up.
Fine conditions.
