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Niv HaTiron, newsletter of the Histadrut HaTzofim HaIvrim B'Eretz Yisrael - Shichvat HaTironim - Haifa. Shavuot 1947. Printed by stencil with illustrations. Texts relate to the Holocaust of European Jewry, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Aliya and Self-Defense. Rare.
The booklet opens with poems about spring that are followed by a story about making baskets in honor of Shavuot. Article regarding the flora and fauna of the country and a commemoration of the 4th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: "This uprising prophesied the embers of hope in the heart of our nation that suffered in the Diaspora during the years of war: We have not yet lost our hope! We will not be like lost sheep, we will not walk straight into the crematorium and gas chambers! We will rise up! We will fight our enemies until our last drops of blood!" It also includes a touching poem addressed to the "heroes of the ghetto," that praised the dead for their bravery during the uprising. Includes a paragraph with the biography of Mordechai Anielewicz, leader of the uprising and a poem in honor of the illegal immigrants. Some texts describe the duress of a Jewish family during the Holocaust and its decision to join the partisans, poem in honor of the homeland and more.
Rare publication that is not in the National Library.
14 leaves. Illustrated jacket title page with tear at the top right. Fine condition.
French newspaper Le Perelin from December 30 1917 covering General Allenby's arrival at the gates of Jerusalem [revue illustree de la semaine 'Coverage of the Week Events of the Week'].
Extensive newspaper coverage accompanied by photographs depicting Allenby's entrance into the gates of the Old City. Large, impressive picture - across two pages - of Allenby at the entrance to Jaffa gate, at the reception by leaders of the various religions, surrounded by lines of soldiers, British flags and throngs of people who came to see the celebratory event.
Despite Allenby's mastery of horseback warfare, he chose to dismount before entering Jerusalem through Jaffa Gate, in deference to the holy city. After his visit, he noted in his official report: 'I officially entered the city on December 11 at midday with a number of my staff, the French Division and the Italian Division ... The procession was entirely on foot ...' as is reflected in the pictures in the newspaper before us.
16 leaves. 26 cm. Stains, fine condition.
Mevasser Yisrael newspaper - Israel's Messenger - Shanghai, Jan. 4 1929.
Mevasser Yisrael newspaper - official newspaper of the Shanghai Zionist Organization, which identified itself as "Faithful to the interests of Jews and Judaism in the Far East." The newspaper started being published in 1904. In the first years, it published a number of issues each month. Later, only one one issue was published each month.
Rare.
32 pages. 33 cm. Fine condition.
Poster printed in the Diaspora in Iyar, 1947 by the Etzel organization in Yiddish, calling for all Jews living in foreign countries to arouse themselves to the return of Zion and to harness their energies to further the battle of the Jewish State. Unknown.
At the top of the poster is the Etzel emblem and the motto "Rak Kach" [רק כך].
25x35 cm. Fold mark. Stains. Fine condition.
* Proclamation by David Bader - pioneer of the Rishon L'Yehudah battalion wherein he tells of the past atmosphere of passion for the draft and calls for its renewal, c. 1930s. 'Fathers, say to your sons: Come, let's go together ... Daughters of Israel, demonstrate in the city streets and towns, singing: Lion, lion, rise up and volunteer ... every young man who appeared on the street without the "volunteer"ribbon adorned on his arm was ashamed ... Dear brothers, look and see our sisters and mothers who were killed, look and see how they responded and were buried alive, burnt alive - do you see? Do you hear? Revenge! You must report for the draft!' David Bader's printed signature is on the margins of the proclamation. [Bader: among the first volunteers for the Jewish brigade, 'Rishon L'Yehudah,' in the First World War, and among the first to immigrate to Emek Chefer - Kfar Avichayil - and work for its development, participated in fierce battles in the War of Independence]. 21x16 c. Fine condition.
* Proclamation by 'The Zionist Committee for Recruitment Issues,' c. 1930s. In the proclamation, there is a call for 'A tribal mobilization system for the recruitment of the full capacity and power of the Jews in the Land of Israel for the war effort, for the building of the land and protection of its rights and the future of the nation in its homeland.' The proclamation contains a summary of the regulations enacted at one of the committee meetings, the establishment of the 'fighter fund' for those recruited, the 'Chazak V'Emetz" blessing for soldiers, notrim and guards, a protest against the Government of Palestine's regulation which could cause dodging, arrangement of an enlistment book recording (for posterity) the names of those fulfilling their duty according to the enlistment orders, and those who didn't fulfill their obligation, announcement of a month of increased recruitment and testing in the community, establishment of local committees active in each town and city as a mobilization center. 22x18 cm. Fine condition.
Varied collection of [42] official letters and documents from Zionist organizations which were active in various locations in the first half of the 20th century.
Among them, we will mention two official Levant Fair documents from 1934-36 on their official paper with the flying camel symbol, signed and stamped by the administration. [Honorary invitation to Mr. A. Kroiza, principal of the agricultural school, Mikveh Yisrael, to join the central committee of exhibition judges, and a second document announcing the three prizes won by the agricultural school at the Levant Fair's agricultural exhibition.] A letter which was sent to "Mikveh Yisrael" regarding a student from Poland who was to study at the Reali Hebrew School in Haifa, Tammuz [1926], an interesting letter on JNF - National Committee Office in the Land of Israel official paper from 14 Tishrei [1926] wherein the JNF turns to the agricultural school, Mikveh Yisrael, claiming that they sent them a letter without postage and a JNF stamp: 'One of our members told us about a letter which was sent by you without JNF postage, and without the stamp "total JNF tax paid," this custom is already accepted in almost all institutions and organizations in the country, and it is not possible that your organization which is undoubtedly obligated to the JNF sees itself free of this requirement." Various letters from the administration of Mikveh Yisrael on the topic of arranging agriculturalists in agricultural work, and building new buildings [1920s], raffle ticket from 'The Sewing and Embroidery Workshop' - Beit Yaakov, a handwritten letter to the high commissioner requesting he come visit 'to celebrate fifty years since the founding our neighborhood, which is the first in the Jerusalem region,' official documents from the National Committee of Knesset Yisrael in the Land of Israel [1936], regarding employing only Jewish workers to pave to roads, various documents dealing with building the train tracks, a document from the Central Committee of the Zionist Federation in Romania with KKL postage, a letter from the Zionist Galilee Committee in Bulgaria, a stencil document from the Zionist Federation of Yugoslavia, a document from the JNF office in Egypt, and more.
The collection is in a binder. Various sizes and conditions, overall 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. Cover detached. Few tears.Tear to last page. moderate-good condition.
Collection of about 40 letters and documents from the "Organization for the Rescue of Israeli Children" which dealt with arranging placements for child survivors in Torah institutions in the 1940s. The collection contains important documents and letters recording the daily battle to save the immigrant children originating in religious families from the claws of secular education, and their placements in Torah institutions which were then founded to ensure their spiritual futures. The collection includes varied documents and dramatic correspondence over the years 1944-1945.
Documents - most in stencil print - recording locating children who were already staying on secular kibbutzes, in order to transfer them to a Chareidi kibbutz, attempts to locate children who originated in devout families in the diaspora who were found to be on a low spiritual level due to the negative influence on their way to the Land, placement of children in summer camps, posters calling for emergency assemblies for the sake of rescuing the children, letters to rabbinical leaders in the diaspora requesting support, the tension that prevailed over the fate of each child and youth, lists of names of immigrants' children and their spiritual condition, financial reports summarizing expenses for dealing with Yaldei Teheran and more.
Standing out among others is a stencil print letter with the signature of A. Albert regarding a boy who arrived in the Neve Eitan kibbutz - a letter from his uncle in London was received explaining that he was from a mitzvah-observant family and he must urgently be removed from the secular kibbutz on which he was staying at the time, to be transferred to a Chareidi kibbutz; a fascinating list of immigrant children, their ages, origins and spiritual conditions, in minute detail, so as to direct them according to their spiritual condition: Grossman, Shlomo: 14, Rumania, beginning gemara, wants to learn. Mondar, Menachem 11. Rumania, prodigy. To learn. Greineman, Yonah, 15, Rumania, chumash, may agree to learn. Gatzovitz, Yehudah, 16, Rumania, starting gemara, wants to work half a day, etc.; letter from Iyar 1946 documenting an attempted infiltration into a Beit Yaakov dormitory with the intent to remove girls to secular education "Two of your representatives, one of whom is Mr. Shadmi, conducted 'visits' in a Beit Yaakov dormitory in Jerusalem and held discussions with the girls in the dormitory in order to transfer them to a kibbutz. The visits and the discussions were held without any knowledge of the institution's administration or the Organization for the Rescue of Israeli Children, and the entire act smacks of the scheming of a foreign authority and temptation for the girls to change the direction of their lives ..."
There is also a letter signed by Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Levin [among the prominent activists in the 'Vaad Hatzalah,' leader of Agudat Yisrael] in which he counters claims which were raised by secular Zionist organizations that the Chareidi institutions are starving the children ['After I spoke with the girls, the counselors and the workers in the dormitory, it was clear to me that these rumors are based on lies ... various people interested in defaming the Organization and the institution in Petach Tikvah increased and spread the rumors ...']; a rare document in stencil print describing details of the 'investigation' conducted by Rabbi Shmuel Shadrovsky [one of the heads of Agudat Yisrael in Tel Aviv, emissary of Agudat Yisrael in the Far East], David Bernholtz, Rabbi Rosenthal and a counselor from Italy for immigrants' children with respect to attempts to cause them to forget their religion [The Nissenbaum sisters ... the older one speaks some German, was in Belgium for a time, and they visited a Christian kindergarten there ... in the house, there was a JNF charity box ... the older sister appeared and spoke in the name of her sister, there is reason to suspect that she was influenced in the week she spent in Kibbutz Yavneh ... Goldberg, Chaim, age 10, born in Frankfurt ... he remembers little, he just knows that his father was a 'frumer Yid' and that his father told him to go to a religious place in the Land of Israel].
Here we note a stencil letter by Shimon Landau from the Sfat Emet yeshiva about a boy named Yaakov Zilpan who ended up in a Mizrachi institution: 'I was very upset to see that the boy ... is in a Mizrachi institution. I am sure that if his father knew about this he would be very upset about it ... it's unfortunate that the child of a holy person is to be found in a place not in consonance with the spirit of his holy father, may his blood be avenged ... his father was a member of Agudat Yisrael'], a letter with the signature of Rabbi Y. M. Levin about a boy who influenced others to go to a theater, with a request that he be prevented from having a foothold in the dormitory [The youth Elimelech Fisher occasionally goes to the Sanhedriah dormitory and negatively influences the children, and once took five children from there with him to the theater - it must be arranged that he not have a foothold in the dormitory ...'] Detailed report by Dr. S. Shapira about his visit to the Beit Yaakov Dormitory in October, 1944 which describes his deep shock and the poor hygienic conditions and terrible crowding in the place.
Another highlight is the rare notebook of the 'League for the Chareidi Youth, its Aims and Functions' detailing the fundamental principles of the movement. [Tel Aviv 1946]; Invitation to the Organization's conference for the absorption of the immigrants' children under the leadership of the gaon of Brisk and the gaon of Tchebin: 'To rescue the immigrants' children from the exploiters of souls from within and without;' Stencil print documents from the Organization summarizing meetings which were held in the home of the Brisker Rav in which decisions were made about founding Torah institutions for the immigrants' children and an invitation to the meeting with the signature of Y. M. Levin to the activists: 'You are hereby invited to an urgent gathering ... the day's schedule of urgent matters concerning the battles for Chareidi education for the refugee children, their arrangements and placements;' letter in the handwriting and with the signature of the secretary of the Ponovezh Yeshivah from Kislev [1946], stencil print letter from C. Kronzak to Rabbi Aharon Kotler with a request for support for the rescue of the children [1941], letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Weisberger on the matter of rescuing a child; leaflets by the Organization calling for implanting the Organization's idea among broad layers of the yishuv, and more.
Various sizes and conditions, most of the documents are stencil prints with handwritten signatures, there are a number of handwritten letters. Overall fine-very fine condition.
HaMizrach. Monthly Zionist-Mizrachi journal by Y. Y. Reines, edited by Zeev Yaavetz. Krakow, 1903. Issues 1-9 bound together in a magnificent binding.
The Mizrachi movement's first and most important journal. Nine issues are before us, starting from issue 1. As far as is known, these are all that were printed. Articles by the best Mizrachi writers are included, among them: Zeev Yaavetz, Yitzchak Nissenbaum, Rabbi Reines, Yechiel Michel Pines and others. The articles deal with the principles of the Mizrachi movement as it was initially designed.
Fine condition.
Standing Behind The Barbed Wire Fence - A Time To Cry And A Time to Laugh, by "Teddy" the Tel Avivian, caricatures by Adam Schleyen. Tel Aviv, 1946. P. Naidat Publishers.
Interesting publication featuring sarcastic cartoons mocking the British Mandate's regime, and its policy of denying the Jewish population preference over foreign populations.
Stains. Fine condition.
Entrance ticket to the first Knesset sessions - Session 1 on August 9, 1949.
Secretariat of the first Knesset's ink stamp 6x8.5 cm.
Very fine condition.
Three autographs of Israeli leaders.
* Signature of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Begin added a stenciled inscription to his signature, dated the 24th of August, 1970.
* Business card signed by the president of the State of Israel, Chaim Herzog, from the time he served as general of the reserves in the early 1970s.
* Official paper signed by President Shimon Peres from when he served as communications minister, dated February 25th, 1971.