Lot 232
Yitzchak Ben-Zvi – Three Letters, the 1930's
1-2. Yitzchak Ben-Zvi, a printed letter and a handwritten letter on official stationary, to the Organization of Discharged Soldiers. February 1935. Both are signed in his handwriting.
The subject of the letters is the preparation of a tombstone to his friend Yoseph Binyamini. Ben-Zvi wished to bring a granite pillar from the Caesarea beach for this purpose and he writes that "this is the most simple and the most beautiful tombstone and it cannot be compared to any monument of concrete or stone".
Yoseph Binyamini (1879-1933) – a member of "Poalei Zion", a friend of Ben-Gurion and Ben-Zvi, founder of Givat HaChayalim (later called Avichayil). Fell on February 1933 while defending the settlement.
3. Yitzchak Ben-Zvi, a letter printed on official stationary, to the committee of the settlement Avichayil, September 22, 1939.
In the letter Ben-Zvi informs the people of Avichayil that he does not intend to pass their letter on to the High Commissioner because he has already "expressed loyalty and readiness for recruitment in the name of all the soldiers of the Hebrew Battalion".
Apparently, the letter relates to the expression of readiness by the Hebrew settlements to volunteer for the British army when World War II broke out.
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