Lot 487
Medallion - Second Zionist Congress, 1898
Medallion commemorating the Second Zionist Congress, 1898.
Obverse: Five portraits - Herzl's portrait surrounded by those of Max Nordau, Bernard Lazar, Max Emanuel Mandelstam and Rabbi Moshe Gaster. The portraits are surrounded by vegetal decorations.
Reverse: a Star of David, in the center of which is the verse "I shall take the sons of Israel and bring them to their land". Surrounding inscription in Yiddish: "Presidium dem 2-tn kongres der tsayonistn in Basel 28-30 August 1898" [Second Zionist congress in Basel].
Diameter: 28 mm. Suspension loop. Obverse is worn.
