The Story of the Esther Scroll and the Zionist Vision – Printed Paper Scroll in Yiddish, Hebrew and Portuguese – ...

The Story of the Esther Scroll and the Zionist Vision – Printed Paper Scroll in Yiddish, Hebrew and Portuguese – Rio de Janeiro, 1947
"Nissim zeynen geshehn…". Design: Moshe Feigenblum. Rio de Janeiro: [Jewish National Fund?], 1947. Yiddish, Hebrew and Portuguese.
A paper scroll, presumably published by the Jewish National Fund, printed in Yiddish, Hebrew and Portuguese; recounting the story of the Esther Scroll alongside the history of the Zionist Movement, its political and national activity and its future goals. The Hebrew text and the Yiddish text were decorated by Moshe Feigenblum.
The Hebrew text of the story of the Scroll summarizes the biblical version while using its verses. The second part of the text, the story of Zionism, begins with the Zionist concept and the First Zionist congress, notes the Balfour Declaration, describes the pioneers' work and the illegal immigration enterprise, the defense and fighting organizations and the work of the Jewish National Fund and Keren Hayesod, all this in the spirit of the scroll and while using familiar phrases from it. The text ends with a call - "Gather and stand up for yourselves and for your nation! And standing up for the nation cannot be done but by building! […] and lasting building is only building the country as the homeland of the Jewish nation".
In the Portuguese text (which parallels the Hebrew text), the scroll emphasizes Brazil being one of the countries of the UN that signed the giving of the mandate for Palestine, which includes the Balfour Declaration and its ratification, to Britain.
[13] columns ([14] columns in the Portuguese text), approx. 23X94 cm. Good-fair condition. Tears, among them open tears, some of them slightly affecting the text. Reinforcement with paper mounted on verso on the upper part of the sheet. Several stains. Creases.
This trilingual edition is not in NLI and not in OCLC.