Auction 87 Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture - Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
By Kedem
Jul 19, 2022
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem., Israel

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 27:

Davis Trietsch – The Rare "Atlas of the Jewish World" – Berlin, 1926 – Original Portfolio

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Davis Trietsch – The Rare "Atlas of the Jewish World" – Berlin, 1926 – Original Portfolio

Atlas der jüdischen Welt [Atlas of the Jewish World] edited by Davis Trietsch. Berlin: Orient, [1926]. German.


Sixteen color-printed plates (three of them folding) comprising maps, charts and tables providing much information about the Jewish settlement in Palestine and the Jewish population worldwide (particularly in the United States, the British Empire and Latvia).
Complete copy (with list of plates), in the original portfolio.
Rare. Only one copy listed in OCLC (copy with 15 plates; date given in listing – 1925).
[1] f. (list of plates), [16] loose plates. Approx. 25X38 cm to 38X75 cm. Good condition. Minor marginal creases. Minor marginal tears to one plate. Stains to portfolio; minor tears to spine.
Additional plate enclosed: partial proof print, in black, of the map showing the Jewish settlement in Palestine (German inscription on top). The complete map, printed in black and red, is included in this atlas (and in Trietsch's "Economic Atlas of Palestine"; see previous item).
72X41 cm. Fold lines. Minor stains and blemishes.


David (Davis) Trietsch (1870-1935), editor, writer and Zionist activist, born in Germany, member of the Zionist General Council and of the democratic faction in the World Zionist Organization (an oppositional faction in the Zionist Organization which introduced an alternative to Herzl's ideas). He was coeditor of the journals Ost und West and Palästina, authored the annual Palästina Handbuch and was one of the founders of the Jüdischer Verlag publishing house.
Trietsch dedicated a considerable part of his time to the question of Jewish settlement. In the 1890s, he conceived the idea of settling Jews in Cyprus, and subsequently promoted the settlement in Cyprus as an alternative to the 1903 Uganda Scheme (a proposal he vehemently opposed). Trietsch later supported the Jewish emigration to Palestine, and suggested planned commercial and industrial development of the country and the establishment of garden cities. He himself settled in Palestine in 1932.