Issues of "Al HaSaf" – Complete Set – Cyprus, 1948-1949

Issues of "Al HaSaf" – Complete Set – Cyprus, 1948-1949
"Al HaSaf" [On the Verge], weekly magazine of students and graduates of the Pinhas Rutenberg JDC Seminar in Cyprus. Cyprus, 1948-1949. Issues 1-25 (no more issues were printed).
The issues contain much information on life in the camps, articles on current events, reports on events in Palestine and literary and cultural items reflecting the spiritual life in the camps. Numerous illustrations.
In the issue dedicated to the release from the camps, the weekly's logo -a pair of hands extended in greeting from the shore of Cyprus to the shore of Palestine – is decorated with an illustration of a ship sailing for Palestine.
"As the Nazis were there – in the extermination camps in Transnistria, so the British are here – in the detention camps, where they wish to push us to despair… but they cannot… the air of Palestine is too close to here, and it won't allow it" (Hebrew, from issue 21).
Enclosed: a songbook, "On the Path of Illegal Immigration – Songs from 'Songs Cyprus'" (Hebrew), printed for the "Hebrew Week" at the summer camps, December 1948.
Two copies of issue no. 1 (with minor typographic variations). Two copies of issues 14, 16 and 22-23. Three copies of issue 19-20.
A total of 26 booklets. 8-30 pp. per issue (some are double issues), 31.5 cm on average. Condition varies. Some of the issues are in very good condition. Some of the issues are in fair condition, with stains and tears. Filing holes to most issues.