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Lot 421

Israel Kloisner – Manuscripts

Collection of manuscripts and articles handwritten by Israel Kloisner: "From the Balfour Declaration to the Mandate", "The Crimea Plan and the Jewish Agency" (a translation by him from Yiddish was sent to Reuven Nochimovsky, with a letter about payment), a manuscript in Yiddish, and more.
Kloisner (1905-1977), writer and literature researcher. Made Aliya to Eretz Israel from Lithuania in 1936 and started working in the Zionist Archive. He later became deputy director. Published many research books, biographies and history books about Zionism, Judaism, the Holocaust, and more. Attached: 19 documents, including: letters sent by Attorney Reuven Nochimovsky to various position-holders in the Jewish Agency (Zalman Shazar, Nahum Goldman, Eliyahu Dobkin, Berl Locker) concerning the publication of a book about the history of the Jewish Agency, other documents. Total of 240 written leaves. Sizes and conditions vary.