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Eretz Israel and Zionism, Anti-Semitsm, Holocaust and Sheerit Hapleta, Postcards and Photographs, Posters, Maps, Judaica, Seforim, Manuscripts, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes
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Official postcard - The Seventh Zionist Congress, which took place in Basel in 1905.
Illustration of Theodor Herzl standing facing a group of Jewish workers carrying the seven-starred flag (which had been suggested by Herzl) and the verse, 'פקד יפקד אלקים אתכם והעליתם את עצמותי מזה אתכם' ["The L-rd will surely remember you and you will bring up my bones from here with you"] to hint at Herzl's passing about a year earlier, and the success of the Zionist plan nonetheless, per his will. "Zionisten Congress" is written on the upper right.
This congress was the first which took place after Herzl's passing, in which David Wolfson took his place as president. At this congress, the Uganda plan was rejected.
RIEMER cataloge no. 9.
9x14 cm. Sent in the mail in 1905. Fine condition.
Postcard with a portrait of Theodor Herzl published by "Central," Warsaw. Early 20th century.
There is a short Yiddish poem at the bottom, "Herzl oif der Raize" - "Herzl's Journey," which relates to Herzl's vision.
9x14 cm. Not sent in the mail. Very fine condition.
11 postcards depicting synagogues [some are rare] in various cities in Eastern and Western Europe. Various publishers and printing dates, early 20th century.
Synagogues from the following cities appear: Basel, rare real photo with a view of a group studying next to the holy ark in the Vilna synagogue, various postcards with internal and external views of the synagogue in Amsterdam, interior and exterior of the Berlin synagogue, Bad Kissingen - Gemany, Paris and also a postcard with a view of the interior of the synagogue in Alep, Syria.
One postcard is undivided, four were used. Overall very fine condition.
Picture of the Eliyahu HaNavi Synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt - photo postcard of the interior of the Eliyahu HaNavi synagogue in Alexandria with an advertisement for Hotel Jerusalem in Egypt. Early 20th century.
Inscription on the postcard: "Hotel Jerusalem, Zalman Baharav receives the guests coming to Alexandria, both by boat and by train. Anyone who wants to find everything ready, both for transporting loads from the ship and the hotel services is requested to inform me before his arrival, by letter or by telegram. Guests are requested to transfer their belongings only to those wearing the hotel uniform." The address of the hotel appears on the bottom: Hotel Jerusalem, Alexandria, Egypte.
Size: 9x14 cm. Not sent in the mail. Stains. Fine condition.
25 postcards presenting synagogues across the United States and Canada, various publishers. Early 20th century.
Highlights include synagogues from: Richmond, San Antonio, New York, California, Toronto, Charleston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Florida, Ohio, Boston and New Orleans, the Shaarei Tefillah community synagogue, and more.
Four are undivided, 13 were sent in the mail, very fine condition.
Collection with 38 postcards including rare ones - photographs and illustrations of Eastern European Jews, various publishers and dates, early 20th century.
Among the postcards: Jews from Caucasus, rare postcard of Jews in the streets of Rzeszów [Poland], photograph postcard showing an Eastern European rabbi studying, a father and son in traditional Jewish dress - photographed in Krakow, Jews playing chess, real photo of rabbinical figures, Jews in Maramureş, husband and wife from Poland in traditional dress, and more. Several postcards depict Jewish customs such as candle-lighting, and a wedding. Picture postcards [rabbis], and more.
4 are undivided, 6 were used. Overall fine-very fine condition.
Rare collection with 42 photograph postcards depicting the Jewish agricultural settlements in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Birobidzhan and the Jewish settlements in Ukraine, 1930s. Local Russian publication.
The postcards show photographs of Jews working in fields, at rest, and group pictures of Jewish children - children of the laborers, and a number of photographs of Communist leaders and activists.
The Jewish agricultural settlements in Ukraine were the fruit of the Uzat organization - "the public company for the promotion of the conversion to agriculture of the working Jews in the Soviet Union." Its goal was to provide sources of livelihood to the hundreds of thousands of Jews who lost their sources of livelihood during WWI. The decision to establish an autonomous Jewish region was taken on March 28th, 1928, under the chairmanship of the central executive committee of the USSR. The region was established in 1934 and registered in the Russian constitution as an independent Jewish region. Following the decision, agricultural settlements were established on the Crimean peninsula and the southern Ukraine, as well as the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in eastern Russia, whose capital was Birobidzhan. The official language in these areas was Yiddish, not Hebrew. For Russian interests, mainly preservation of the eastern border, Jewish settlement in these areas was encouraged, and they even produced a film entitled Seekers of Happiness about a family who left the United States due to the economic depression and came to the area. The Jewish settlers established the settlement from scratch. When the Jewish population in the area grew, Jewish culture began to develop there. A Jewish newspaper was published in Yiddish, called Birobidzhashaner (Birobidzhan Star). Some of the settlements had Hebrew names: Yetzirah, Avodah, Mishmar, and Tel Chai. Streets were named after Yiddish authors such as Sholem Aliechem and Y. L. Peretz. The plan was stopped when Stalin began to persecute the Jews in the mid-1930s. Liquidation of the Jewish settlement was completed in 1941 with the German conquest.
After WWII there was an attempt to renew the settlement as a solution for refugees, but the idea was not successful. As far as we know, there is no visual documentation of these areas from this period. These postcards are also not listed in catalogs documenting Jewish postcards from the period.
Postcard size: 14x10 cm. Overall very fine condition. The postcards were not sent in the mail. Some of the postcards have ink stamps on the reverse.
Impressive album with 102 postcards [most Real Photo photography] depicting portraits of leaders of Zionism from its inception, authors, intellectuals and Jewish figures. Various publishers [some rare]. Various publishers and publication dates, first decades of the 20th century.
Among the personalities depicted: Theodor Herzl, Rothschild, Echad HaAm, Yosef Trumpeldor, David Frishman, Sholem Aleichem, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Lilienblum, Dreyfus, Arthur Rubinstein, Felix Mendelssohn, Morris Rosenfeld, Mendel Beilis and others. The postcards were published at various publishers operating in the first decades of the 20th century with the exception of a few later ones.
The postcards are placed in a designated decorative album from the early 20th century with pockets for placement of the postcards. The postcards and the album are in very fine condition.
24 postcards presenting Jewish figures, rabbis and leaders. Various publishers including: Levanon, Central [Warsaw], Yehudea, Russian publishers, Berlin, and more.
Highlights include: a rare postcard with a portrait of Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever [published by Levanon], Eastern European Jewish children, little businessmen [hand-painted postcard], undivided postcards with Moritz Daniel Oppenheim illustrations, "Havdalah" by Boris Shatz and more.
5 were sent in the mail, 4 are undivided. Some have stains. Overall fine condition.
18 postcards depicting Jewish customs from Alphonse Lévi's paintings, published by ND Phot. Highlights include: Yom Kippur, Pesach, Purim, seder, etrog, halachic inquiry (checking a chicken), Chanukah and more.
Very fine condition.
* Jewish figure facing right, with the inscription: Altes Judenburger stadtwappen [Image of an ancient Jew], sent in the mail.
* Jewish head peeking between bars and the inscription: Der Judas von Tirol. German stamp from the Reich period on the reverse, postmarked with the Reich's stamp with a swastika and the year, 1934.
Both are in very fine condition.
Collection of antisemitic postcards. England and the United States [most were produced in London or New York] including rare ones, early 20th century.
Postcards depicting Jews of England and the United States as ridiculous, with antisemitic captions.
7 are undivided, 7 were sent in the mail. Overall fine condition.