Lot 116
Three Postcards with Group Photographs of Jews – A Group of Romanian Jews / Participants of the Founding Conference of the "HaMizrachi" Movement in Vilnius / Students of the Gymnasium and of the School of the Haredi Community of Chisinau
Three postcards with group photographs of Jews:
1. "Jedenelend" [Jewish Suffering]. [Germany? ca. 1900-1901]. An undivided postcard depicting a photograph of a group of Romanian Jews around their friend's body, and their story (in German): the members of the group were arrested in the city of Jassy for loitering and were banished to the other side of the Turkish border; the Turkish refused to let them in and the soldiers of the Romanian border guard threw them in response into the Danube. The Turks drew them from the water, yet one of them drowned and another lost his mind.
On the upper part of the postcard, a quote by Petre Carp, the Romanian Prime Mister in the early 20th century, who supported equal rights for Jews: "We live in an era in which we can no longer throw Jews into the water".
2. "Russian Mizrachi Members - Russische Misrahi-Gruppe". Vienna: "Zion", [ca. 1902]. An undivided postcard depicting a group photograph of the participants of the Founding Conference of "HaMizrachi" Movement in Vilnius. Rabbi Yitzchak Ya'akov Reines is seen in the center.
3. "The 'Magen David' gymnasium and elementary school of Chisinau". Chisinau, Lag BaOmer 1922. A photographed postcard with a group photograph of the students of the gymnasium and school of the Haredi community of Chisinau. On verso of the postcard appears the stamp of the school.
Approx. 14x9 cm. Good overall condition. A few blemishes and stains, mainly on postcard no. 3.
The verso of the postcards is printed upside down.
