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 21:
Collection of Ephemera – First Assembly of Representatives and the Jewish National Council – Early 1920s – Mizrachi ...
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Collection of Ephemera – First Assembly of Representatives and the Jewish National Council – Early 1920s – Mizrachi Representative Rabbi Moshe HaMeiri Ostrovsky
Large collection of ephemera pertaining to the operations of the Jewish National Council and the First Assembly of Representatives. Jerusalem, early 1920s. Hebrew.
• Roughly 45 invitations and notices – most of them printed and signed by the secretaries and directors of the Jewish National Council – sent to Rabbi Moshe HaMeiri Ostrovsky, representative of the Mizrachi organization: notice of an appointment with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, an urgent invitation to a meeting with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, invitations to meetings regarding issues of security in the moshavot, aliyah and absorption, establishment of the Jewish Agency, and more. Among the signatories: Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and David Yellin.
• Delegate's card (no. 8) for the First Assembly of Representatives of the Jews in Palestine, issued to Rabbi Ostrovsky. Marked with the inked stamps of the directorate of the Jewish National Council (David Yellin, Dr. Jacob Thon, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi), with discount coupons for the purchase of train tickets.
• "Rules and Regulations for the Elections to the Assembly of Representatives of the Jews in Palestine, " printed broadside issued in time for the first elections held (in 1920) by the Jewish Yishuv. Tel Aviv: Ahdut Press, [ca. 1920]. With information regarding the right to vote, the right to submit candidacy, special privileges for soldiers of the Jewish Legion, and more.
• "Circular to the Haredi Communities in Palestine!", printed broadside issued by the "Council of Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] Delegates" – an announcement of their impending withdrawal from the Jewish National Council. Nisan, 5682 [1922].
• Entrance ticket to the "Founding Assembly" in Jaffa (June 17, 1918), hand signed by Dr. Jacob Thon (the Founding Assembly gathered three times in the course of the First World War, and was the Palestine Jewish community's representative body in dealings with the British. Following its third meeting, the "Assembly of Representatives" was established).
• And more.
Approx. 60 items. Size and condition vary.
