Leah Goldberg – Collection of letters and sketches

Collection of letters and postcards sent by Leah Goldberg to Rivka Gvili-Broida and her husband Alexander, 1940s–1960s. The collection includes:
Seven postcards sent by Leah Goldberg to Rivka and Alexander Broida; Shanah Tovah greeting with leaves attached (designed by Goldberg); eight letters from Leah Goldberg, most are handwritten; printed Shana Tova greeting, with handwritten addition: “I have already eaten the good chocolate and smoked the cigarettes!”; Three sketches by Goldberg; Color draft ex-libris to Gvili-Broida with attached letter and invitation to the opening of Goldberg’s collage exhibition.
In a letter from May 1948 Goldberg writes: “In the meantime I am living, and that has become something more important that indicates the obvious fact… I have been busy with my work this year, which is very pleasant for me: translating ‘War and Peace’ by Tolstoy. If all goes well, this will take another year and a half at least. […] Yesterday I was at Gan Shmuel, and I saw an hour of trees bent by the wind…”