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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LOT 18:
Six Postcards with Photographs of Jewish Soldiers – WWI
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Vendu pour: $440
Prix de départ:
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150
Commission de la maison de ventes: 25%
TVA: 17% Seulement sur commission
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Six Postcards with Photographs of Jewish Soldiers – WWI
Six postcards with photographs of Jewish soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army (some with letters to relatives). Various locations, 1916-17 (and other years?).
1-2. Two postcards with photographs showing young people wearing army uniforms. Photographer: Johann Martin Lenz, Celje (today in Slovenia). Captioned (in Hebrew) in pencil: "The grandson of R. Samuel is shown working in the Austrian army during the war, 1916."
3-6. Four postcards with group photos of soldiers and handwritten letters (in German). Two of the postcards are addressed to Selig Adlerstein in Safed; one of these – showing soldiers wrapped in prayer shawls ("tallitot") – bears the caption (in Hebrew): "The prayer of members of the Army of Israel on Rosh HaShanah, year 5678 [1917] in the field in the course of the campaigns of the war."
Six postcards, approx. 13.5X9 cm. Condition varies. Overall good-fair condition. Stains. Abrasions and (small) open tears to edges. One postcard with tear to width, secured with strip of adhesive tape on back.
