Lot 147
Large Format Hebrew Map of Palestine – Hebrew Publishing House Menorah, Vienna
Map of Palestine, edited by Dr. Sh. [Shemuel] Klein; after the Rothaug-Umlauft Map. Vienna: Hebrew Publishing House Menorah, [ca. early 1920s?]. Hebrew.
Map of Palestine and Transjordan, printed on four large sheets of paper, and marking Jewish National Fund lands, Jewish settlements, ruins, railway lines, and ports. Two small inset maps appear in the margins, one of Jerusalem and the other of the Land of Canaan apportioned to the twelve tribes of Israel.
This map is based on a German map, aimed at schoolchildren, charted by Johann Georg Rothaug and Friedrich Umlauft and published in a number of editions dating from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. Shemuel Klein, editor of the Hebrew edition, translated the names of the dozens of settlements and sites that appeared on the original German map, and added markings to indicate lands purchased by the Zionist enterprise in the early years of the British Mandate ("according to the situation toward the end of [Hebrew year] 5681" [1921]).
The publication details have been printed onto a strip of paper pasted onto the map so as to cover up the name of the original German publisher, "Freitag und Brandt." A copy of this map appears in the National Library of Israel (NLI), but without the Menorah Hebrew Publications sticker.
4 sheets, approx. 94.5X63 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases (mostly minor, to margins). Tears, holes, and open tears to margins.
