Lot 216
Lastträger Bin Ich – Berlin, 1936
SIMON, Jaakow [ed.]. Lastträger Bin Ich. Jüdische Jugendgeschichten aus den Neuen Palästina [I Am a Porter – Children's Stories from the New Palestine]. Berlin: Kedem, 1936. German.
Collection of illustrated children's stories edited by Ya'akov Simon (Shimoni), who later was one of the founders of the Hagana Intelligence Corps and one of the first to serve in the Israeli Foreign Ministry. The stories describing the lives of new immigrants in Eretz Israel were intended to arouse Zionist feelings amongst German youngsters. With illustrations by Bernhard Gelbart.
92 pp, 20 cm. Very Good Plus condition. Very minor stains, slight tears to spine.
