Auction 68 Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Sep 19, 2019 (Your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 213:

Group Photographs of Members of Zionist and Jewish Organizations – Kovel, Poland, 1920s-1930s

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16 group photographs documenting members of Zionist and Jewish organizations in Poland. Most of them were taken in Kovel (Volyn province. Today in Ukraine), [1920s-1930s].
Group photographs of members of various Zionist and Jewish organizations, most of them from the city of Kovel; mounted on cardboard mounts. Many of the photographs depict Avraham Meir (Meytze) Weisbrot, one of the Zionist leaders in Kovel, the chairman of the "Tze'irei Zion" Organization and vice chairman of the Palestine Office in the town. Several of the photographs are inscribed to Weisbrot for his immigration to Palestine in 1925. Some of them are captioned in the plate or on verso (in pencil) and some bear photographers' stamps.
Among the photographs: • Group photograph depicting Arieh Leib Yaffe, captioned on verso: "A visit of Leib yaffe in 1924" (Hebrew). • Photograph of the committee of the "Tarbut" Hebrew Gymnasium in Kovel. • Photograph of school children and their teachers, captioned in the plate: "'Tarbut' library in Kovel, founded by the American committee… in 1920. Photograph B. Geller, Kovel" (Hebrew). • Two photographs of the members of the "Tze'irei Zion" Movement, one of them captioned in the plate: "The first conference of 'Tze'irei Zion' in Volyn, Rivne 16-20 Tamuz 1921" (Hebrew). • Two photographs of Avraham Meir Weisbrot with his friends, members of "Tze'irei Zion" in Kovel, taken before his immigration to Palestine in 1925. On their verso, inscriptions signed by the members of the movement. • Photograph of Weisbrot with the members of the Palestine Office, also taken before his immigration to Palestine in 1925 and bearing an inscription signed by the members of the office. • Three photographs related to the TOZ Organization (an organization for promoting medicine and hygiene among Jews): a group photograph from the "Children's Colony" of the organization (captioned in the plate in Yiddish and dated 1932); photograph of the committee of TOZ from 1932 (captioned and dated on verso, in pencil); group photograph stamped on verso with the stamp of the organization. • And more.
Pencil notations on verso of all photographs read: "Rivkah Weisbrot". Presumably, these photographs are from the estate of Rivkah Weisbrot, Avraham Meir Weisbrot's first wife.
16 photographs, mounted on cardboard mounts. Size and condition vary. Stains and tears.

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