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Lot 251

Two Brochures about the 1936 and 1929 Riots – Eretz Israel and Poland, 1929-1936

Two brochures with illustrations and poems in response to the Jewish massacre in the 1929 and 1936 riots.
* Eretz Israel Riots – telegrams and news in illustrations, Nahum Gutman. Published by Lewin Epsztein, Warsaw. 1929. Hebrew, English and Yiddish. [16] leaves. Printed on one side. 15 caricatures about 1929 riots with captions in Hebrew, English and Yiddish. This edition (probably second), was printed in Europe in three languages after the first edition, Hebrew edition printed in Israel, became very popular and was censored by the British.
* Shirat HaDamim – compilation of poems by leading poets about the 1936 riots with a foreword by Avigdor Hameiri, cover illustration by D.[David] Gilboa. Sifrut La'am Press, Tel Aviv, 1936. Hebrew. 32 pp.
Size and condition vary. Some tears to cover, good overall condition.