Lot 75
Collection of Broadsides – the Irgun, Lehi and Hebrew Youth Organizations – 1940s
Ten broadsides issued by the Irgun, one broadside issued by the Lehi and a broadside issued jointly by the Hebrew Youth organizations against the dissident organizations. Palestine, 1940s. Hebrew (one broadside is in Hebrew and English).
1-10. Eleven broadsides issued by the Irgun, including: an announcement about the execution of the two British sergeants Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice (The Sergeants Affair); a response broadside to the bombing of the King David Hotel and the dismantling of the Jewish Resistance Movement; a broadside rejecting the recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine in April 1946; a bilingual broadside, in Hebrew and English, warning British policemen not to disturb the prayer beside the Western Wall on Yom Kippur (without the Irgun's name); a broadside calling the Arab population to join the struggle of the Irgun against the British (printed on bright blue paper); and more.
11. A broadside issued by the Lehi, threatening to harm British policemen if they harm Jews in the DP camps in Europe (1948).
12. A broadside issued jointly by the Hebrew Youth organizations, condemning the "wild terror of the dissidents and renegades". Signed in print by 27 youth organizations and schools: Bnei Akiva, Gordoniya, HaPoel, Maccabee, the Yemen Youth, the Herzliya Gymnasium, and others (Kislev, 1944).
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
