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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
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Three letters sent to the scholar and author Avraham Kahana, hand-signed by Chaim Nachman Bialik.
1. A short autograph letter signed by Bialik. Written on official letterhead of Avraham Kahana in Zhitomir.
"I am sorry I did not find you. I have much to discuss with you about your biblical work…" (Hebrew). [1] folded leaf, 18 cm. Good condition. Horizontal folding line. Stains.
2. Typewritten letter (with details added by hand) - invitation to register as a member in "Association of Hebrew Authors and Literature", Tel-Aviv branch. Tel-Aviv, 1925.
Hand-signed by the chairman of the branch Chaim Nachman Bialik and the secretary Haim Harari. 22.5X14 cm. Good condition. Creases and stains.
3. Autograph letter (most probably in Haim Harari's handwriting), on official letterhead of "Association of Hebrew Authors and Literature", Tel-Aviv branch. Tel-Aviv, 1925.
A request to participate in a lottery of books and art to be held as part of an authors' event. The letter is ink-stamped with the branch's stamp, as well as hand-signed by the chairman Chaim Nachman Bialik and the secretary Haim Harari. Approx. 21X13.5 cm. Vertical folding line. Stains. Open tears at upper part of leaf.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
1. A short autograph letter signed by Bialik. Written on official letterhead of Avraham Kahana in Zhitomir.
"I am sorry I did not find you. I have much to discuss with you about your biblical work…" (Hebrew). [1] folded leaf, 18 cm. Good condition. Horizontal folding line. Stains.
2. Typewritten letter (with details added by hand) - invitation to register as a member in "Association of Hebrew Authors and Literature", Tel-Aviv branch. Tel-Aviv, 1925.
Hand-signed by the chairman of the branch Chaim Nachman Bialik and the secretary Haim Harari. 22.5X14 cm. Good condition. Creases and stains.
3. Autograph letter (most probably in Haim Harari's handwriting), on official letterhead of "Association of Hebrew Authors and Literature", Tel-Aviv branch. Tel-Aviv, 1925.
A request to participate in a lottery of books and art to be held as part of an authors' event. The letter is ink-stamped with the branch's stamp, as well as hand-signed by the chairman Chaim Nachman Bialik and the secretary Haim Harari. Approx. 21X13.5 cm. Vertical folding line. Stains. Open tears at upper part of leaf.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Avraham Kahana Collection
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![Memoirs handwritten by Avraham Kahana. [Tel-Aviv, early 1940s]. Handwritten memoirs of Kahana's childhood and adolescence in](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale60-public/254.jpg "Avraham Kahana - Handwritten Memoirs - Memoirs about Bialik, about Zhi")
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
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Memoirs handwritten by Avraham Kahana. [Tel-Aviv, early 1940s].
Handwritten memoirs of Kahana's childhood and adolescence in Zhitomir and the vicinity. A significant parts of the memoirs is about Chaim Nachman Bialik who was only one year older than Kahana and was also born near Zhitomir and dwelled there. Kahana also mentions authors and intellectuals, who are related to Zhitomir or to Bialik. He writes about Bialik and Ahad HaAm: "I remember that once we took a long walk and he was talking all the time about Odessa and its intellectual… while talking he stopped and said: there is one man there - Asher Ginzburg - yellow, small and thin and he is a great man and on Friday nights people gather in his home and argue and talk…" (Hebrew).
8 leaves: 28 cm + [5] leaves: 24.5 cm. Good condition. Creases and tears at margins of leaves. Filing holes to small leaves.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Handwritten memoirs of Kahana's childhood and adolescence in Zhitomir and the vicinity. A significant parts of the memoirs is about Chaim Nachman Bialik who was only one year older than Kahana and was also born near Zhitomir and dwelled there. Kahana also mentions authors and intellectuals, who are related to Zhitomir or to Bialik. He writes about Bialik and Ahad HaAm: "I remember that once we took a long walk and he was talking all the time about Odessa and its intellectual… while talking he stopped and said: there is one man there - Asher Ginzburg - yellow, small and thin and he is a great man and on Friday nights people gather in his home and argue and talk…" (Hebrew).
8 leaves: 28 cm + [5] leaves: 24.5 cm. Good condition. Creases and tears at margins of leaves. Filing holes to small leaves.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Avraham Kahana Collection
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![Nine photographs from Zhitomir, Ukraine. Unknown photographer, [1905]. 1-4. Four photographs documenting the outcome of the P](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale60-public/255.jpg "Photographs from Zhitomir - 1905 Pogrom and Group Photographs")
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
Nine photographs from Zhitomir, Ukraine. Unknown photographer, [1905].
1-4. Four photographs documenting the outcome of the Pogrom executed against the Jews of Zhitomir following the 1905 revolution. Three portray the interior of a demolished house and the fourth portrays the "Student Weinstein who was the first who fell in the war on the Podil in the Zhitomir Pogrom" (Leibush Ephraim ben Shlomo Weinstein).
5-8. Four photographs portraying groups of children and boys and Jewish families in Zhitomir.
9. Photograph portraying a bridge over one of the rivers of Zhitomir.
Average size: 12.5X17 cm. Good overall condition. All photographs are mounted on cardboard sheets, some of the sheets are cut on the photograph's edge. Creases and stains to cardboard sheets. Photograph of the pogrom's victim is titled by hand on the cardboard sheet.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
1-4. Four photographs documenting the outcome of the Pogrom executed against the Jews of Zhitomir following the 1905 revolution. Three portray the interior of a demolished house and the fourth portrays the "Student Weinstein who was the first who fell in the war on the Podil in the Zhitomir Pogrom" (Leibush Ephraim ben Shlomo Weinstein).
5-8. Four photographs portraying groups of children and boys and Jewish families in Zhitomir.
9. Photograph portraying a bridge over one of the rivers of Zhitomir.
Average size: 12.5X17 cm. Good overall condition. All photographs are mounted on cardboard sheets, some of the sheets are cut on the photograph's edge. Creases and stains to cardboard sheets. Photograph of the pogrom's victim is titled by hand on the cardboard sheet.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Avraham Kahana Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $600
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Memoirs handwritten by the scholar and author Avrham Kahana, describing pogroms again Ukrainian Jews during the month of October 1919. [Kiev? October 1919].
Six leaves written by hand, on which Avraham Kahana describes the pogroms against Jews which occurred during the Russian civil war. The events occurred during four days in the month of October 1919, apparently in Kiev (when the civil war broke out Kahana was appointed Professor in the Popular University in Kiev, and probably stayed in the city during the war).
Kahana recounts the White Army forces and the Bolsheviks, riots and murder of Jews in the city's streets and his attempts to hide from the rioters. Among other things, Kahana wrote: "Officer of the Dinikins [forces of the White Army commanded by Anton Dinikin] approached the house… and asked the person who stood at the door if he was Jewish or Christian. When he answered that he was a Jew he shot him…" (Hebrew). And further: "I decided that I have to leave my apartment and hide. I went out to the yard… All my neighbors are worried about me but all of them are afraid to hide me…".
[6] leaves (9 written pages), 21 cm. Fair condition. Tears and open tears (ink erosion), some affecting text.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Six leaves written by hand, on which Avraham Kahana describes the pogroms against Jews which occurred during the Russian civil war. The events occurred during four days in the month of October 1919, apparently in Kiev (when the civil war broke out Kahana was appointed Professor in the Popular University in Kiev, and probably stayed in the city during the war).
Kahana recounts the White Army forces and the Bolsheviks, riots and murder of Jews in the city's streets and his attempts to hide from the rioters. Among other things, Kahana wrote: "Officer of the Dinikins [forces of the White Army commanded by Anton Dinikin] approached the house… and asked the person who stood at the door if he was Jewish or Christian. When he answered that he was a Jew he shot him…" (Hebrew). And further: "I decided that I have to leave my apartment and hide. I went out to the yard… All my neighbors are worried about me but all of them are afraid to hide me…".
[6] leaves (9 written pages), 21 cm. Fair condition. Tears and open tears (ink erosion), some affecting text.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Avraham Kahana Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Collection of letters from the architect Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) - a world famous architect, of the most important Jewish architects in the 20th century, to the architect, painter and designer Uriel Kahana who worked in Mendelsohn's office in Jerusalem in the mid-1930s. London, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, 1935-1940.
The collection includes seven printed letters, hand-signed by Erich Mendelsohn (full signature), two signed in initials, a letter and a note written in pencil (signed in initials) and eleven additional notes written in pencil - receipts for payments (written by Mendelsohn and hand- signed by him).
Among the items: * A letter sent by Mendelsohn to Uriel Kahana when the latter was in London, in which he sums up in writing their agreement, after deciding that Kahana will come to work in Mendelsohn's office in Jerusalem (march 25, 1935). * A letter informing Kahana about the termination of his work in Mendelsohn's office (June 1936). * Copy of a letter written by Uriel Kahana to Mendelsohn, in which he expresses his astonishment regarding the termination of his work, in view of the difficult situation in Palestine and after finishing his work on plans for Chaim Weizmann's house in Rehovot and beginning to work on plans for "Hadassah" (June 1936). * Letter of recommendation praising the architectural competence - both artistic and technical - of Kahana, signed by Mendelsohn (April 1940; two copies, one signed in initials and one with a full signature). * Copies of letters from Kahana. * Personal letters sent, most probably, by a Mendelsohn family member to Kahana.
Total of 22 letters and notes from Erich Mendelsohn, and about 7 various documents and two postal envelopes. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
The collection includes seven printed letters, hand-signed by Erich Mendelsohn (full signature), two signed in initials, a letter and a note written in pencil (signed in initials) and eleven additional notes written in pencil - receipts for payments (written by Mendelsohn and hand- signed by him).
Among the items: * A letter sent by Mendelsohn to Uriel Kahana when the latter was in London, in which he sums up in writing their agreement, after deciding that Kahana will come to work in Mendelsohn's office in Jerusalem (march 25, 1935). * A letter informing Kahana about the termination of his work in Mendelsohn's office (June 1936). * Copy of a letter written by Uriel Kahana to Mendelsohn, in which he expresses his astonishment regarding the termination of his work, in view of the difficult situation in Palestine and after finishing his work on plans for Chaim Weizmann's house in Rehovot and beginning to work on plans for "Hadassah" (June 1936). * Letter of recommendation praising the architectural competence - both artistic and technical - of Kahana, signed by Mendelsohn (April 1940; two copies, one signed in initials and one with a full signature). * Copies of letters from Kahana. * Personal letters sent, most probably, by a Mendelsohn family member to Kahana.
Total of 22 letters and notes from Erich Mendelsohn, and about 7 various documents and two postal envelopes. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Uriel Kahana Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $6,250
Including buyer's premium
Collection containing about 200 paper items - plans, architectural drawings and illustrations, interior design drawings and furniture designs, from the estate of the architect, designer and painter Uriel Kahana. Rome, London, Haifa and Tel-Aviv, ca. late 1920s through 1930s.
The collection includes items from different periods of Kahana's architectural career - items from his period of studies in Europe, from the period he worked in Haifa and from his private office on Rambam street 15 in Tel-Aviv.
Among the items in the collection: * Proposal for a building for the National Institutes in Jerusalem (1927). * Plans for Huebner House on Ahad HaAm street 88 (Tel-Aviv). * Plans for Pilz house on Hayarkon street 81 (Tel-Aviv). * Drawings and illustrations from the period of his studies in Rome and London (some are very professional, drawn on thick paper of good quality, for display). * Drawings and plans for an architectural contest in England. * Drawings and plans for buildings in Haifa, created when he worked with the architect Prof. Alexander Berwald. * Plans of interior design and drawings of furniture: tea cart, lighting lamps, openwork for an arm chair, a table, chairs (made of hollow pipes in a modernist style), arm chairs, and more. The collection also includes a number of lists handwritten by Kahana, printed letters and several photographs of buildings which he designed.
For more information about the architectural career of Uriel Kahana, see introduction on p. 228 and the article by architect Shmuel Yavin, "Architectural work of Uriel Kahana", in: "One of the last in a Generation - Uriel Kahana - Architect, Painter, Designer", catalogue of an exhibition in the Bauhaus Center, Tel-Aviv, 2003. pp. 12-17.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains and tears to some items. Some of the drawings and photographs are matted.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
The collection includes items from different periods of Kahana's architectural career - items from his period of studies in Europe, from the period he worked in Haifa and from his private office on Rambam street 15 in Tel-Aviv.
Among the items in the collection: * Proposal for a building for the National Institutes in Jerusalem (1927). * Plans for Huebner House on Ahad HaAm street 88 (Tel-Aviv). * Plans for Pilz house on Hayarkon street 81 (Tel-Aviv). * Drawings and illustrations from the period of his studies in Rome and London (some are very professional, drawn on thick paper of good quality, for display). * Drawings and plans for an architectural contest in England. * Drawings and plans for buildings in Haifa, created when he worked with the architect Prof. Alexander Berwald. * Plans of interior design and drawings of furniture: tea cart, lighting lamps, openwork for an arm chair, a table, chairs (made of hollow pipes in a modernist style), arm chairs, and more. The collection also includes a number of lists handwritten by Kahana, printed letters and several photographs of buildings which he designed.
For more information about the architectural career of Uriel Kahana, see introduction on p. 228 and the article by architect Shmuel Yavin, "Architectural work of Uriel Kahana", in: "One of the last in a Generation - Uriel Kahana - Architect, Painter, Designer", catalogue of an exhibition in the Bauhaus Center, Tel-Aviv, 2003. pp. 12-17.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains and tears to some items. Some of the drawings and photographs are matted.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Uriel Kahana Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $2,000
Unsold
About 240 paper items - drawings, sketches, design works, graphic design and commercial works, from the archive of the architect, designer and painter Uriel Kahana. Rome, Tel Aviv (and other places?), 1920s to 1960s.
The archive contains original works from two major periods in Kahana's life: one part includes about 180 illustrations and drawings from his youth, when he studied architecture in Rome and from the first decade of his life in Palestine (1920s-30s); the second part contains about 60 drawings, sketches and design works from the 1940s to 1960s.
Among the items: Numerous drawings in pencil - portraits, figures, still life, buildings and views (among them drawings of sites in the Old City of Jerusalem and in Jaffa); caricatures, sketches for greeting cards and illustrated leaves; sketches for signs, a bookplate, a theater program, costumes and stage sets (mainly furniture); samples of fabrics with comments about picking fabrics for costumes (in 1950s and 1960s Kahana created works for "Habima" - stage furniture and programs for "A Touch of a Poet" by Eugene O'Neil and "Murder of the Innocent" by William Saroyan; stage sets for the play "Throw him to the Dogs" by Yigal Mossinson - together with Peter Frye - and stage design and costume design for "War and Peace" by Tolstoy), and other items.
Enclosed are tens of printed paper items - programs of plays in the production of which Kahana was involved, book covers which he designed as well as newspaper cuttings and printed leaflets related to his works.
Many of the drawings and sketches were created on small scraps of paper or on tracing paper.
Size and condition vary. Creases, wear and tears at margins of some items; worming to some items.
For more information about the commercial works by Kahana, see essays by Nirit Shalev-Khalifa and Ben Zion Kahana in the catalogue "One of the last in a Generation - Uriel Kahana - Architect, Painter, Designer", catalogue of an exhibition in Bauhaus Center in Tel-Aviv, 2003, pp 18-31.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
The archive contains original works from two major periods in Kahana's life: one part includes about 180 illustrations and drawings from his youth, when he studied architecture in Rome and from the first decade of his life in Palestine (1920s-30s); the second part contains about 60 drawings, sketches and design works from the 1940s to 1960s.
Among the items: Numerous drawings in pencil - portraits, figures, still life, buildings and views (among them drawings of sites in the Old City of Jerusalem and in Jaffa); caricatures, sketches for greeting cards and illustrated leaves; sketches for signs, a bookplate, a theater program, costumes and stage sets (mainly furniture); samples of fabrics with comments about picking fabrics for costumes (in 1950s and 1960s Kahana created works for "Habima" - stage furniture and programs for "A Touch of a Poet" by Eugene O'Neil and "Murder of the Innocent" by William Saroyan; stage sets for the play "Throw him to the Dogs" by Yigal Mossinson - together with Peter Frye - and stage design and costume design for "War and Peace" by Tolstoy), and other items.
Enclosed are tens of printed paper items - programs of plays in the production of which Kahana was involved, book covers which he designed as well as newspaper cuttings and printed leaflets related to his works.
Many of the drawings and sketches were created on small scraps of paper or on tracing paper.
Size and condition vary. Creases, wear and tears at margins of some items; worming to some items.
For more information about the commercial works by Kahana, see essays by Nirit Shalev-Khalifa and Ben Zion Kahana in the catalogue "One of the last in a Generation - Uriel Kahana - Architect, Painter, Designer", catalogue of an exhibition in Bauhaus Center in Tel-Aviv, 2003, pp 18-31.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Uriel Kahana Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Sold for: $938
Including buyer's premium
Logos illustrated by Uriel Kahana, sketches for logos, letters from Avigdor Hameiri to Uriel Kahana and sample-leaves handwritten by Avigdor Hameiri. Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, 1925.
These graphic works were created by Kahana following his immigration to Palestine and prior to his departure for architectural studies in Rome, Prague and London.
1-2. Two logos for "HaKtav" publishing house, for volumes of "Collected Works by Avigdor Hameiri" published in 1925-1930. Kahana created both logos in a modernist style, as far as typography is concerned as well as the illustration of the scroll - integrating both and designing them in geometric lines. Both logos are signed in initials "A.K.".
Approx. 10.5X9 cm. Several cut pieces. Mounted on cardboard; 10.5X14 cm. Good condition. Mounted on cardboard.
3-6. Four leaves with sketches in pencil and ink for a logo for "HaKtav" publishing house and title of "Collected Works by Avigdor Hameiri" (several are two-sided, with illustrations on the back).
Size varies. Good overall condition.
7-8. Two autograph letters from Avigdor Hameiri to Uriel Kahana, with instructions for the design of a logo for "HaKtav" publishing house and the titles of "Collected Works by Avigdor Hameiri". Among Hameiri's guidelines: "words will be 'Heavy weight' and so will the illustration", and: "do not forget that Stiebel publishing house is not very 'modern', and so: maximum seriousness". At the end of one of the letters Hameiri writes "I advise you to always consult your father regarding writing, punctuation and so on".
[2] leaves, approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and some stains.
9-16. Eight pages handwritten by Hameiri, with examples for the title pages of the book, the titles, dedication, etc.
Size varies, fair-good condition. Torn out leaves and stains.
Enclosed: two postal envelopes in which Hameiri sent his letters and instructions.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
These graphic works were created by Kahana following his immigration to Palestine and prior to his departure for architectural studies in Rome, Prague and London.
1-2. Two logos for "HaKtav" publishing house, for volumes of "Collected Works by Avigdor Hameiri" published in 1925-1930. Kahana created both logos in a modernist style, as far as typography is concerned as well as the illustration of the scroll - integrating both and designing them in geometric lines. Both logos are signed in initials "A.K.".
Approx. 10.5X9 cm. Several cut pieces. Mounted on cardboard; 10.5X14 cm. Good condition. Mounted on cardboard.
3-6. Four leaves with sketches in pencil and ink for a logo for "HaKtav" publishing house and title of "Collected Works by Avigdor Hameiri" (several are two-sided, with illustrations on the back).
Size varies. Good overall condition.
7-8. Two autograph letters from Avigdor Hameiri to Uriel Kahana, with instructions for the design of a logo for "HaKtav" publishing house and the titles of "Collected Works by Avigdor Hameiri". Among Hameiri's guidelines: "words will be 'Heavy weight' and so will the illustration", and: "do not forget that Stiebel publishing house is not very 'modern', and so: maximum seriousness". At the end of one of the letters Hameiri writes "I advise you to always consult your father regarding writing, punctuation and so on".
[2] leaves, approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and some stains.
9-16. Eight pages handwritten by Hameiri, with examples for the title pages of the book, the titles, dedication, etc.
Size varies, fair-good condition. Torn out leaves and stains.
Enclosed: two postal envelopes in which Hameiri sent his letters and instructions.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Uriel Kahana Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $938
Including buyer's premium
Collection of sketches for logos designed by Uriel Kahana for different publishing houses. Warsaw and Palestine, 1920s.
1-3. Three sketches for the logo of "Tarbut" publishing ("Tarbut" published the book "Four Billy Goats" in Warsaw in 1922). Two sketches in pencil and one in ink, depicting a figure stretching a scroll. On the back of two of the leaves appear sketches for the logo of "Zil Zlil" series (see hereafter).
4-9. Six sketches for a logo of "Zil Zlil" series published by "Tarbut". Ink and pencil sketches, some are primary sketches and some are advanced, depicting a Jewish child riding on the wings of a large bird. Enclosed is the printed logo.
10-11.Two sketches (pencil and ink) for the logo of "Barkai" publishing (active in Warsaw in thw 1920s). Enclosed is the printed logo.
12-13. Two sketches (pencil and ink) for the logo of "Globus" publishing ("Globus farlag"), Warsaw.
14-16. Three sketches (ink) for the logo of "Hedim" publishing (one sketch is torn) which was active in Palestine in the 1920s.
17-19. Three sketches (pencil and ink) for the logo of "Mekorot" publishing, founded by Avraham Kahana Uriel's father.
20-22. Three sketches (ink; for bookplates?) with Uriel Kahana's initials.
23. Sketch (black and golden ink) for a greeting card (?) - "… for Leah Lerner, my little sister".
24. A letter from the sculptor and painter Avraham Melnikov, about design of a title page for an art and literature periodical titled "HaMizbe'ach", [1924].
Enclosed is a printed leaf - title page of "HaGdud - booklet for matters of language, youth and literature" (Hebrew), 1924 (Published by "G'dud Magine HaSafah") designed by Uriel Kahana.
Size and condition vary. Some of the pencil sketches are on worn acidic papers, stained, creased and torn at margins.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
1-3. Three sketches for the logo of "Tarbut" publishing ("Tarbut" published the book "Four Billy Goats" in Warsaw in 1922). Two sketches in pencil and one in ink, depicting a figure stretching a scroll. On the back of two of the leaves appear sketches for the logo of "Zil Zlil" series (see hereafter).
4-9. Six sketches for a logo of "Zil Zlil" series published by "Tarbut". Ink and pencil sketches, some are primary sketches and some are advanced, depicting a Jewish child riding on the wings of a large bird. Enclosed is the printed logo.
10-11.Two sketches (pencil and ink) for the logo of "Barkai" publishing (active in Warsaw in thw 1920s). Enclosed is the printed logo.
12-13. Two sketches (pencil and ink) for the logo of "Globus" publishing ("Globus farlag"), Warsaw.
14-16. Three sketches (ink) for the logo of "Hedim" publishing (one sketch is torn) which was active in Palestine in the 1920s.
17-19. Three sketches (pencil and ink) for the logo of "Mekorot" publishing, founded by Avraham Kahana Uriel's father.
20-22. Three sketches (ink; for bookplates?) with Uriel Kahana's initials.
23. Sketch (black and golden ink) for a greeting card (?) - "… for Leah Lerner, my little sister".
24. A letter from the sculptor and painter Avraham Melnikov, about design of a title page for an art and literature periodical titled "HaMizbe'ach", [1924].
Enclosed is a printed leaf - title page of "HaGdud - booklet for matters of language, youth and literature" (Hebrew), 1924 (Published by "G'dud Magine HaSafah") designed by Uriel Kahana.
Size and condition vary. Some of the pencil sketches are on worn acidic papers, stained, creased and torn at margins.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Uriel Kahana Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Eight letters handwritten by Yitzchak Dov Berkowitz. Seven letters were sent to his daughter Tamara Kahana, and the eighth letter was sent to his son in law Uriel Kahana. Sent from Tel-Aviv to Haifa during the 1940s (four letters to Tamara are dated 1941 and the letter to Uriel is dated 1949). Russian and Hebrew.
* Seven personal letters, in Russian, sent to Tamara Kahana. In one of the letters Berkowitz refers to Tamara's translation of a story by Shalom Aleichem; sends comments about the translation and suggests to compare her translation to his. * Letter in Hebrew, to Uriel Kahana. Berkowitz refers in this letter to a Russian dictionary which he got from Uriel as a gift.
Enclosed: two notes, written by hand, from Berkowitz to Tamara (one written on a calling card), and five envelopes in which Berkowitz's letters were sent to Tamara.
Yitzchak Dov Berkowitz (Slutsk 1885 - Tel-Aviv 1967), Hebrew and Yiddish author and translator, known mainly for his translations of the writings of Shalom Aleichem. In 1906 he married Esther, daughter of Shalom Aleichem and left with Shalom Aleichem's family to Copenhagen and then to the United States where he stayed until he moved to Palestine in 1928. Tamara, Berkowitz's daughter, studied in the United States and worked as a journalist and translator (translated, among others, stories by Shalom Aleichem into English). After relocating to Palestine in 1931 she worked for the American Economic Committee for Palestine, and later in the Ministry of Defense and the Prime Minister's Office. Married the Architect Uriel Kahana in 1941.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Folding marks, stains and some defects.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
* Seven personal letters, in Russian, sent to Tamara Kahana. In one of the letters Berkowitz refers to Tamara's translation of a story by Shalom Aleichem; sends comments about the translation and suggests to compare her translation to his. * Letter in Hebrew, to Uriel Kahana. Berkowitz refers in this letter to a Russian dictionary which he got from Uriel as a gift.
Enclosed: two notes, written by hand, from Berkowitz to Tamara (one written on a calling card), and five envelopes in which Berkowitz's letters were sent to Tamara.
Yitzchak Dov Berkowitz (Slutsk 1885 - Tel-Aviv 1967), Hebrew and Yiddish author and translator, known mainly for his translations of the writings of Shalom Aleichem. In 1906 he married Esther, daughter of Shalom Aleichem and left with Shalom Aleichem's family to Copenhagen and then to the United States where he stayed until he moved to Palestine in 1928. Tamara, Berkowitz's daughter, studied in the United States and worked as a journalist and translator (translated, among others, stories by Shalom Aleichem into English). After relocating to Palestine in 1931 she worked for the American Economic Committee for Palestine, and later in the Ministry of Defense and the Prime Minister's Office. Married the Architect Uriel Kahana in 1941.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Folding marks, stains and some defects.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Uriel Kahana Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
1-2. Two notebooks, "Calendar for List of Classes", the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Jaffa. Published and printed by A. Ettin, Jaffa, 1913-1914.
Designated notebooks used by the student Ben-Zion Kunin and by his teachers. Most leaves are blank and on the last leaves the teachers wrote his grades and the decisions of the pedagogical committee. 22.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains, slight tears and wear. Loose covers.
3. "Tal HaShacharut" - newspaper of the third grade of the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, issue no. 3, [1914]. A stenciled manuscript, with stories, poems and paintings by the school's students, many of which are anonymous or signed with pseudonym (this issue includes a poem by the poet Avraham Shlonsky who studied in the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium that year, when he was 14 years old). [10] leaves, approx. 19 cm. Poor condition. Numerous creases and tears. Lacking pieces, affecting text.
4. Students' regulations for the four high grades of Herzliya gymnasium, Tel Aviv. Godard-Ashur press, Tel-Aviv, 1923.
A small format booklet, detailing rules for students (duties and rights), confirmed by the "general assembly of the students and confirmed by the pedagogical committee". 15, [1] pp, 9 cm. Good condition. Uncut sheets, no pins.
Not in OCLC.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Designated notebooks used by the student Ben-Zion Kunin and by his teachers. Most leaves are blank and on the last leaves the teachers wrote his grades and the decisions of the pedagogical committee. 22.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains, slight tears and wear. Loose covers.
3. "Tal HaShacharut" - newspaper of the third grade of the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, issue no. 3, [1914]. A stenciled manuscript, with stories, poems and paintings by the school's students, many of which are anonymous or signed with pseudonym (this issue includes a poem by the poet Avraham Shlonsky who studied in the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium that year, when he was 14 years old). [10] leaves, approx. 19 cm. Poor condition. Numerous creases and tears. Lacking pieces, affecting text.
4. Students' regulations for the four high grades of Herzliya gymnasium, Tel Aviv. Godard-Ashur press, Tel-Aviv, 1923.
A small format booklet, detailing rules for students (duties and rights), confirmed by the "general assembly of the students and confirmed by the pedagogical committee". 15, [1] pp, 9 cm. Good condition. Uncut sheets, no pins.
Not in OCLC.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Uriel Kahana Collection
Catalogue
Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Unsold
35 ephemera items - printed tickets, invitations and entrance tickets to public and private events held in Palestine in the 1920s. Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, 1923-1932 (most items are from mid-1920s).
Among the items: * Invitation to a Hanukkah ball in the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, with the presence of the High Commissioner, 1923. * Invitation and entrance ticket to an exhibition of works by the artist Reuven Rubin in the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, 1924. * Entrance ticket to the national convention of JNF ("In Palestine and Syria"), 1924. * Printed ticket, "Commemorating the first elections to the first Jewish municipality in Palestine", 1924. * Entrance ticket and invitation to the traditional Masquerade Ball of Baruch Agadati. * Three entrance tickets to the inauguration celebration of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1925 (in two different colors). * Invitation to the cornerstone laying ceremony for the "Eretz Israeli Theater" building, [ca. 1926]. * Invitation to a "Prosperity Ball" of the Association of Engineers and Architects in Palestine, 1937 (Designed as a 5 Palestinian Lira note). * Invitation to a ceremony on the occasion of the reinterment of the remains of Max Nordau, 1926. * Invitation to an official reception in honor of "the birthday of His Highness the King", 1928 * Paper slips, "for a prize for an 'actual affairs' mask" and for "the most interesting mask" from the Purim festivities of Baruch Agadati. * Invitation to a "meeting dedicated to the question of imposing the Hebrew language" on behalf of "Gdud Magine haSafah". * Participation ticket and entrance ticket to the closing ceremony of the first "Maccabiah", 1932. * More items.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Some items were used - tears, wear and stains. Tears or missing pieces.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Among the items: * Invitation to a Hanukkah ball in the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, with the presence of the High Commissioner, 1923. * Invitation and entrance ticket to an exhibition of works by the artist Reuven Rubin in the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, 1924. * Entrance ticket to the national convention of JNF ("In Palestine and Syria"), 1924. * Printed ticket, "Commemorating the first elections to the first Jewish municipality in Palestine", 1924. * Entrance ticket and invitation to the traditional Masquerade Ball of Baruch Agadati. * Three entrance tickets to the inauguration celebration of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1925 (in two different colors). * Invitation to the cornerstone laying ceremony for the "Eretz Israeli Theater" building, [ca. 1926]. * Invitation to a "Prosperity Ball" of the Association of Engineers and Architects in Palestine, 1937 (Designed as a 5 Palestinian Lira note). * Invitation to a ceremony on the occasion of the reinterment of the remains of Max Nordau, 1926. * Invitation to an official reception in honor of "the birthday of His Highness the King", 1928 * Paper slips, "for a prize for an 'actual affairs' mask" and for "the most interesting mask" from the Purim festivities of Baruch Agadati. * Invitation to a "meeting dedicated to the question of imposing the Hebrew language" on behalf of "Gdud Magine haSafah". * Participation ticket and entrance ticket to the closing ceremony of the first "Maccabiah", 1932. * More items.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Some items were used - tears, wear and stains. Tears or missing pieces.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
Category
Uriel Kahana Collection
Catalogue