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'The Zionist Congress Basel 1, 2, 3 Elul 5757' - a picture of all 162 delegates who took part in the First Zionist Congress, August 29-31, 1897.
When the picture is folded, writing in English appears on the back: The delegates to the First Zionist Congress, Basle, August 1897.
Size of the picture when open: 30x27 cm. When folded: 18x27 cm.
Very fine condition.
"1944, Shinat Hitezrachut V'ha'shem HaIvri" published by the Jewish Agency [Yoetz HaSochnut HaYehudit L'Inyanei hg"a L'ishchat Hahadracha Hamerkatzit]. Tel Aviv, 1944.
Guidebook issued by the Jewish Agency with suggestions for changing old "exile" names to modern original Hebrew ones. In his preface, the publisher explains his intentions: "The time has arrived for our complete naturalization - including the Hebraization of the first and last names of each and every one of us - which will be fulfilled with a collective effort by the entire yishuv....with our yearning for natural and complete Hebrew we want to shake off this specific thing, which reeks of exile, and therefore, with the prominence of the Hebrew name of each and every one of us, we will be eradicating the legacy of the exile and will emphasize our desire to revive ourselves in our Hebrew homeland."
The publisher then writes that 1944 was designated as the year for eradicating foreign names and switching them to original Hebrew ones. The name change can be implemented by a notice to the immigration department and publishing the new name in an official newspaper. The publisher uses the first 25 pages of the booklet to refute the claims of the new immigrants who cling to their original names and refuse to change them. In the second part of the booklet, the publisher suggests hundreds of Hebrew surnames that could replace the foreign names, with similar sounds, ie: replacing "Ava" for "Avichai", "Behr" for "Beiri" etc. It concludes with a list of Biblical names that do not need to be replaced becaues of their modern sound, such as: Avidan, Avner and Achitov.
This is the second section of the initiative. The first booklet related to naturalization as a whole. This is historic testimony to the roots of the widespread phenomenon in the 1940s that significantly influenced the character of the State of Israel.
47 pages. 17 cm.
Stains. Fine condition.
Issue of Haaretz newspaper from November 30, 1947, reporting on the United Nation's decision to establish a Jewish State.
Headline: [in Hebrew] "It has been decided to establish a Jewish State, 33 nations voted in favor of the partition plan, 13 opposed it, 10 abstained and one was absent."
The top of the leaf features pictures of Herzl and Chaim Weizmann together with a map of the partition plan. The newspaper articles discuss the UN's decisions and the factors that generated this decision.
[2] leaves. 57 cm. Stains. Fold marks. Marginal tears.
Moderate-fine condition.
Six issues of newspapers from "State Day" announcing the establishment of the State of Israel.
* Ma'ariv newspaper dated May 14, 1948, with the headline: "The Mandate is Dead! Long Live Our State!". Tear from the top right with damage to two letters in the headline.
* The 'Aztmaut Yediot Milchemet Tashach' newspaper from May 13, 1948, with the headline: 'Independence will be declared tonight, invasion from Egypt!' and 'The declaration of independence will be read from a scroll'.
* The evening edition of 'Yediot Achronot' from May 13, 1948 with the headline: 'London: Jaffa Port to the 'Hagana'" and '90 Arabs were killed in Kfar Darom'. 'The Commissioner left the ceasefire negotiations in Jerusalem'.
* The 'Hayom' newspaper - Jerusalem, from July 2, 1948 with the headline: "Jerusalem's fate is on the scales".
* The 'Yediot Ma'ariv' newspaper from May 13, 1948 with the headline: "Jaffa signs on surrender. Declaration of the State - tomorrow before the beginning of Shabbat".
* Di Vach in Eretz Yisrael, Jerusalem. From December 1, 1947, with the headline: "Di Yiddishe Medina - a fact! Der Yishuv yuvlat shteidnik oif der vach!
It is possible that some of the inner pages are missing in some of the newspapers. Some of them have reinforcements with pasted paper. . Stains. Brittle leaves. Moderate overall condition.
HaShekel B'Shnot HaMilchama, published by the management of the Zionist Federation, Jerusalem, 1944. David Ben Gurion's signature on the title-page cover.
An important booklet which reviews the history of the shekel in the Zionist movement as the publisher writes in the introduction: "In the presence of the representatives of all the bodies which use the shekel in Israel - the various parties and federations - a national conference was held in Tel Aviv on March 2, 1944 for the Shekel, in which the essence and value of the shekel in the Zionist movement was expressed. We hereby present a summary of the speeches delivered at that conference, accompanied by a short introduction and a chart about the development of the shekel during the war years in Israel and in the Diaspora".
The copy of the first prime minister David Ben Gurion with his handwritten signature on the title-page cover.
32 pages, 16 cm. Ink stain on one of the leaves.
Fine condition.
Issue 1 of the official newspaper, HaPoel HaTzair press, Tel Aviv 14/5/1948. Printed by the Provisional Government.
The issue features the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel, the historic reasons that justified its establishment and the founding principles of the State. Page 4 features a manifesto issued by the Provisional State Council regarding the authority of the State and the revocation of the White Paper.
4 pages, 32 cm.
Stains. Filing holes. Minor worming holes, not affecting text, on the upper left. Reinforcing tape near the margins of the first and last leaves. Small, professionally repaired holes near the margins.
Moderate-fine condition.






Promotional booklet published in honor of the opening of the first Maccabiah games in Tel Aviv, 1936.
The book starts with an essay from Nordau about the "Muscular Judaism." It also includes remarks from M. Usshishkin, Yitzchak Kurland [the Maccabiah and the Zionist idea] and others. Later on, under the title, "The first Maccabiah....under the patronage of ....the High Commissioner to Palestine General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope," there is a list of the presidents, council, administration, various committees, photos and sketches of the Beit HaMaccabi in Tel Aviv and Haifa, Advertisements, program for the first Maccabiah and more.
Not in the National Library.
31 cm. Missing the upper left and bottom right corners [about 9 cm. from the top] of the soft cover.
Fine condition.






Handwritten notebook of the founder of Kibbutz Lochamei HaGeta'ot [rebels of the Lodz ghetto] - Yaakov Drori. Drori wrote this notebook from 1947-1949, while he recovered from his injuries in the Ranana hospital. He describes the history of the group of chalutzim who helped him establish the kibbutz and the political developments that impacted their attempts to formulate an organized group to build the land. The notebook summarizes the era and includes quotes from letters that he wrote to activists and friends at different times.
The notebook includes personal and touching feelings that accompanied Drori during his pioneering work in Palestine. He describes the yearning for political independence on the background of the events that preceded the War of Independence: "Dear friends! Our fate is like the fate of all pioneering kibbutzim in Palestine and the Jewish Natino in the world. It was not our desire to disperse from our life together and leave the contintuation of the fulfilment of our goal, to be an independent body in the settlements and create a new project named for the ghetto fighters and fighters of Israel. We were forced to fight this war by Arab-British imperialistic reactionism. We must defend and fight until victory for political independence and the liberation of the entire nation in its land. I am sure that the day will come when the war will finish and we as a nation will be liberated and will stand as an international entity....it was our lot to be the remnant of six million Jews who were destroyed and murdered in sanctification of G-d's name by the Nazi beast, and we were tasked with creating and founding a new home whose symbol will be the ghetto fighters and the soldiers of Israel...just a bit more patience and we will reach our goal...."
Drori also writes about attempts to found the Lochamei HaGeta'ot kibbutz during the War of Independence that delayed its establishment: "Since I came to Palestine with my small group of people, after two years of wandering from a concentration camp through Italy and Cyprus, my desire and longing was to unite the remnants of our "Dror" movement in Poland and create a complete entity for settlement characterized by the pioneering spirit of the ghetto fighters....However the new stage in the life of our country called the best of our members before we finished our year of prepartion to fight this war which we have been forced to face by the Arabic-British imperialistic reactionism, our members swore to defend and fight until victory on behalf of political independence and the liberation fo the entire country..."
On occasion, Drori writes about political developments in real time: "Today the radio announced that Marshall from the United States and Bevin from Britian support Folke Bernadotte's proposal to join the Arabic Palestine to Transjordan....Jerusalem will be an international city and the port of Haifa and the city will be a free city..."
Between some pages, Drori includes some relevant newspaper clippings. It also includes personal passages that he wrote to his pioneering friends who helped him with his daily activities, on some pages he quotes relevant Biblical verses. He writes in length about the commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the future State of Israel [I do not know how someone born in the country will understand and feel about magnitude of the day in which the Jewish Nation in Diaspora stood up to rebel against the human enemy whose goal was to destroy the Jewish Nation from the face of the earth...in my opinoin, we need to show the youth the strength of the nation in the land that he lives is the reality of "Gevurat Tirat Zvi" and the strength of "Gush Etzyon" and "Negba"..he will understand this more when he sees the results of the war for the independence of Israel....]
[158] leaves, without jacket. Some of the letters are written in Hebrew and some in Yiddish. Five of the first leaves are water damaged and are illegible or partially illegible.
Clear, legible hand.
'An Informative Page' - 8 informative leaves from the months of May-June 1948 published by the 'Dorot' Kibbutz as part of an internal publication about the various events during the war - stencil print. Private publication of the Kibbutz, with no name of publisher and printer.
The page served as an internal newsletter which was circulated daily and describes the events during the war, providing a fascinating daily report. The titles appeared every day such as: 'Orders from the regional council' or 'News from the country and the southern front'. The publisher transmitted important information about the various developments in the war: "Yesterday evening we were informed about raids by our forces in Syria and Lebanon. Information was provided about attacks on the Malkia police station and nearby army camp. Two police stations on the Syrian border were blown up... after exchange of fire the Egyptians retreated toward Gaza...our forces advanced significantly toward Tulkarm...Bulgaria is prepared to recognize the State of Israel if asked to do so" and more.
After the notices are subjectively written paragraphs in order to encourage the soldiers, for example: The Security Council's battle for a ceasefire should merely be seen as an English plot... we will doubtless continue with the approach of counterattacks, raids and alertness". Or: "We have harsh information from Gush Etzion about brutal behavior toward our people...we must know and remember that despite the information from the newspapers we are well aware of the enemy's nature: cruel, trickery, zealous, devoid of all western decency (which are in doubt during war) and total contempt for human life in general." The newsletter also reports about the dates of the ceasefire, general news [a summary of Ben Gurion's speech at the Security Council], reports about the economy and more.
Each publication is one 'Informative Page'. The eight 'Pages' before us include:
Page no. 2: May 30, 1948
Page no. 5: June 2, 1948
Page no. 6: June 3, 1948
Page no. 7: June 4, 1948
Page no. 9: June 6, 1948
Page no. 11: June 8, 1948
Page no. 14: June 11, 1948
The 'Information Pages' before us do not appear in the National Library.
Very fine overall condition.






Personal letter correspondence between friends in Palestine [Dalia and Eli] in 1947-1949, written on the background of the War of Independence in a number of locations [Chatzerim, Haifa, Tel Yosef].
Most of the letters relate to their relationship, but here and there there are references to the war in the background, the tension, internment camp in Cyprus, time spent in the bunker and more. Interestingly, for a long time, the boyfriend thought that his girlfriend had similar feelings for him, but at the end it becomes clear that she is not interested in him. Some of the letters were sent to the girl from her mother, and are not arranged in chronological order.
About 100 pages. Crowded, clear and legible. Varying sizes and conditions. Overall fine condition.
* Notebook of illustrated poems and idioms, written between 1944-1946 and gifted to a girl named Rochel Brand from the friends in her class. Sentences, songs, and idoms written personally to Rochel by the friends in her class. They indicate the tension and hope that accompanied the girls during these critical years. For example: "If you will be old in your life, see and remember that during the days of war you lived and alot of explosions you cried...." Or "look forward to the morrow when we will all be redeemed here in Eretz Yisrael, it will all be ours...," "retain the flag and remember me forever..." Includes a number of original idioms and poems from other friends. Hard cover with gilt embossing of the Tel Aviv port. 31 written pages, the other leaves are blank. Fine condition.
HaBrigada HaYehudit by Captain Yaakov Lipshitz, published by Yavneh, Tel Aviv, [1947]. The endpaper was inscribed by the author to Lipman Levinsohn.
The book includes 175 photos of soldiers of the brigade on the battlefield, during parades, Jewish female soldiers from Palestine volunteering in foreign countries, concentration camps during the Holocaust and maps. Original jacket with symbol of the Brigade and photos.
413 [1] pages.
Tears in the jacket. Fine condition.
Three volumes with 73 issues of the American journal, The Palestine Weekly. The first issue of 1924 features a lithograph designed by Meir Gur Aryeh.
Years 1921, 1924, 1925. The title page of 1924 was designed by Meir Gur Aryeh [1891-1951]. It features a lithograph of the Temple Mount with the sun rising in the background. Hundreds of photos depicting life in Palestine in the 1920s. Photos by Y. Ben-Dov, caricatures, pioneers, advertisements and more.
Includes:
1921 July-Decemeber; 25 issues, numbers 25-50.
1924 January-June; 25 issues, numbers 1-25. Binding partially detached.
1925 January-June. 23 issues 252-275. The binding is detached.
Fine condition.