The present catalogue includes an extensive chapter dedicated to Bezalel artists, including illustrated books, various objects, drawing and paintings. This chapter features numerous original sketches for works by Ze'ev Raban - Raban's sketchbook (lot 318), sketches for illustrations to the Song of Songs (lot 320), sketches of the signs of the Zodiac (lot 327), a large collection of photographs of works by Raban and Meir Gur Aryeh (lot 344), and many other unique items from the estate of Shlomo Kedmi, who succeeded Raban and Gur Aryeh in the Industrial Art Studio.
The chapter dedicated to Hebrew children's books features charming works by prominent writers and illustrators: stories by Benzion Raskin illustrated by Uriel Kahana, Chaim Hanft and Haim Goldberg; poems by Itzhak Katzenelson illustrated by Gertrud Caspari; rhymes by Ya'akov David Kamson illustrated by Else Wenz-Viëtor; children's book published by "Omanut", with color lithograph illustrations by "Chavurat Tsayarim" (Apter, Mutzelmacher, Kravtsov and Higer); pop-up books illustrated by David Gilboa; and other rare books.
The avant-garde chapter features Yiiddish, Hebrew and Russian books, with illustrations and cover-designs by important Russian avant-garde artists such as El Lissitzky, Joseph Chaikov, Issachar Ber Ryback, Mark Epstein and Nathan Altman.
The catalogue further features a variety of choice items representing the history of Palestine and Zionism, bibliophile works, letters, travelogues and maps of Palestine, photographs, postcards, rare Ladino periodicals, works by Safed-based artist Yosef Zvi Geiger, bibliophile works, a chapter dedicated to numismatics, and many more items.
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Political Broadsides and Publications – Bund, OZET, The Zionist Organization in Russia – Early Publication of the Balfour Declaration in Russia, and Reactions to the 1929 Palestine Riots
Six political broadsides and publications by Jewish and Zionist organizations. Russia and Eastern Europe: early 20th century to 1930s. Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish.
1. "Manifest of the Zionist Center to the Hebrew People" (Hebrew) – a broadside featuring a Hebrew translation of the Balfour declaration, and a lengthy manifesto, encouraging Jews to join the Zionist movement; among the first publications of the Balfour declaration in Russia, published during the Communist Revolution. Signed in print: "the Central Committee of the Zionist Organization in Russia, " November 11, 1917 (the declaration was signed on November 2, and news of it reached Russia a few days later, when many of the Jewish printing houses were already shut down by the Bolsheviks.)
2. "Khaver un bruder! Di blutike kampen in Eretz Yisroel hern nit oyf" [Yiddish: Friend and brother! The bloody battles in Eretz Israel did not cease] – a leaflet jointly published by various Zionist movements in Poland, in reaction to the 1929 Palestine Riots: HeHalutz, Hashomer Hatzair, Berit Trumpeldor, Gordonia, HeHalutz HaMizrachi, and other organizations. Vilnius Szymanowicz Press, [1929.]
3. "Tsu di Yiddishe Folks Massen!" [to the Jewish Masses!, ] Anti-Zionist booklet, published by the Polish Bund, blaming the Jewish Yishuv for the 1929 Palestine Riots. Warsaw: M. Beser, 1929.
Rare. Not listed in OCLC.
4. Yiddish broadside issued by OZET (in Yiddish: GEZERD – The Society for the Settlement of Jewish Toilers on the Land.] Moscow: ЭМЕС Press, [ca. mid- to late 1920s].
5. "Jews of Białystok!, " broadside issued by "the organizing committee of reception in honor of Hayim Nahman Bialik in Białystok. Białystok: Litograf, 1931. Hebrew and Yiddish.
6. Announcement by the "Warszawskie Biuro Informacyjne dla emigrantów zydow" [the Warsaw Bureau of Information for Jewish Immigrants.] Warsaw: undated (presumably, early 20th century.)
Size and condition vary.
