Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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![Album with 58 photographs, most of them photochromes, of landscapes and sites in Palestine. Zurich, [ca. late 19th century].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/87_1.jpg "Album of Photochromes from Palestine – Late 19th Century")
![Album with 58 photographs, most of them photochromes, of landscapes and sites in Palestine. Zurich, [ca. late 19th century].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/87_2.jpg "Album of Photochromes from Palestine – Late 19th Century")
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,125
Including buyer's premium
Album with 58 photographs, most of them photochromes, of landscapes and sites in Palestine. Zurich, [ca. late 19th century].
The photographs, which are mounted on the album's leaves, portray, among other things: The Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock, the Tower of David (with an Ottoman flag), Rachel's Tomb, the village of Cana, Magdala, Silwan, Capernaum, Mount Hermon, Mount Tabor, the Dead Sea, Jordan River, and other places in Palestine. Three of the photographs were taken in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
The photochromes are numbered, titled (in French) and signed P. Z. [Photochrom Zürich] in the lower margins. Three of the photographs are sepia-toned and are titled in the plate. Most of the photographs are titled by hand (English) on the album's leaves. The album is numbered on the inner side of the binding (ink-stamp): 164.
58 photographs, approx. 22X16 cm. Condition varies. Good-fair overall condition. Stains and blemished to some photographs. Open tears to bottom margin of one photograph. Album: approx. 25X18 cm. Minor stains. Some tears and blemishes to margins of leaves. Ownership inscription and dedication on one of the endpapers. Loose and worn binding, with tears and rubbings. Missing spine.
The photographs, which are mounted on the album's leaves, portray, among other things: The Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock, the Tower of David (with an Ottoman flag), Rachel's Tomb, the village of Cana, Magdala, Silwan, Capernaum, Mount Hermon, Mount Tabor, the Dead Sea, Jordan River, and other places in Palestine. Three of the photographs were taken in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
The photochromes are numbered, titled (in French) and signed P. Z. [Photochrom Zürich] in the lower margins. Three of the photographs are sepia-toned and are titled in the plate. Most of the photographs are titled by hand (English) on the album's leaves. The album is numbered on the inner side of the binding (ink-stamp): 164.
58 photographs, approx. 22X16 cm. Condition varies. Good-fair overall condition. Stains and blemished to some photographs. Open tears to bottom margin of one photograph. Album: approx. 25X18 cm. Minor stains. Some tears and blemishes to margins of leaves. Ownership inscription and dedication on one of the endpapers. Loose and worn binding, with tears and rubbings. Missing spine.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $800
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium
Collection of stereoscopic photographs portraying people, sights and views around Palestine and two stereoscopes. Mid-19th to early 20th century.
In the collection:
• Two editions of a set with one hundred photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations, accompanied by two editions of the book "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. 1900 and 1905. English.
Card no. 35 in one of the sets differs in color and it seems that it was taken from another set. The photographs are contained in cases shaped as books.
• Collection of 28 stereoscopic photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other location, [early 20th century]. Contained in a case shaped as two books.
• The book "Jerusalem through the Stereoscope", printout from "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. Published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations, 1905.
• Folding wooden table-top stereoscope. Made by Smith, Beck & Beck. London, [ca. mid-19th century].
• Small wooden stereoscope - "Brewster's refracting stereoscope". [England (?), second half of the 19th century].
Size and condition vary.
In the collection:
• Two editions of a set with one hundred photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations, accompanied by two editions of the book "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. 1900 and 1905. English.
Card no. 35 in one of the sets differs in color and it seems that it was taken from another set. The photographs are contained in cases shaped as books.
• Collection of 28 stereoscopic photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other location, [early 20th century]. Contained in a case shaped as two books.
• The book "Jerusalem through the Stereoscope", printout from "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. Published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations, 1905.
• Folding wooden table-top stereoscope. Made by Smith, Beck & Beck. London, [ca. mid-19th century].
• Small wooden stereoscope - "Brewster's refracting stereoscope". [England (?), second half of the 19th century].
Size and condition vary.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $800
Sold for: $2,125
Including buyer's premium
Collection of more than 200 stereoscopic photographs portraying people, sights and views in Palestine and three stereoscopes. [Early 20th century].
The collection includes:
• Palestine, Tour no. 2, set of photographs published by Sunbeam Tours Ltd., London. The set includes 36 photographs and a booklet with descriptions of the photographed sites ("Sunbeam Companion"), contained in the original cardboard case.
• Set of 27 stereoscopic photographs portraying Jerusalem and the surroundings, published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations. Enclosed: "Jerusalem through the Stereoscope", printout from "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. Published by Underwood & Underwood, 1911. The photographs are contained in a case shaped as a book.
• Set of 96 (out of 100) stereoscopic photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations. Enclosed is the book "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, [1905?]. The photographs are contained in a case shaped as two books.
• 22 stereoscopic photographs published by Keystone View Company, Meadville, New York, Chicago and London.
• Stereoscopic photograph published by London Stereoscopic Company.
• Three stereoscopic photographs published by Realistic Travelers Publishers, London and other locations.
• 61 stereoscopic photographs, most of them published by Underwood & Underwood.
• Folding wooden table-top stereoscope.
• Portable wooden stereoscope. Most probably made by the Keystone Company.
• Portable wooden stereoscope with a stand. Made by Joseph L. Bates.
Size and condition vary.
The collection includes:
• Palestine, Tour no. 2, set of photographs published by Sunbeam Tours Ltd., London. The set includes 36 photographs and a booklet with descriptions of the photographed sites ("Sunbeam Companion"), contained in the original cardboard case.
• Set of 27 stereoscopic photographs portraying Jerusalem and the surroundings, published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations. Enclosed: "Jerusalem through the Stereoscope", printout from "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. Published by Underwood & Underwood, 1911. The photographs are contained in a case shaped as a book.
• Set of 96 (out of 100) stereoscopic photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations. Enclosed is the book "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, [1905?]. The photographs are contained in a case shaped as two books.
• 22 stereoscopic photographs published by Keystone View Company, Meadville, New York, Chicago and London.
• Stereoscopic photograph published by London Stereoscopic Company.
• Three stereoscopic photographs published by Realistic Travelers Publishers, London and other locations.
• 61 stereoscopic photographs, most of them published by Underwood & Underwood.
• Folding wooden table-top stereoscope.
• Portable wooden stereoscope. Most probably made by the Keystone Company.
• Portable wooden stereoscope with a stand. Made by Joseph L. Bates.
Size and condition vary.
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Maps, Travelogues, Photography
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,375
Including buyer's premium
Two photographs by Bernard Edelstein documenting wine production in the colony of Zichron Ya'akov in the first years of the winery's operation. Zichron Ya'akov, [late 19th century (ca. 1893-1895)].
1. A photograph of workers in Zichron Ya'akov. Seen in the foreground are mules harnessed to carts bearing barrels of wine produced in the colony's winery. The photograph is signed and titled in the plate: "Transport of grapes in Zichron Ya'akov, Edelstein".
2. Group photograph taken in the barrel cellar at the Zichron Ya'akov winery. Titled in the plate: "'Zichron Ya'akov', the Cellar".
The photographer, Bernard Edelstein, was active in the years ca. 1893-1920. In the 1890s he took a series of photographs of settlements in Palestine supported by Baron Rothschild, including the colony of Zichron Ya'akov. For additional information see: "Photographers of Palestine" by Guy Raz (Hakkibutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2003), p. 22.
Two photographs: approx. 21X28 cm. Good condition. Creases. Some tears to margins (approx. 2.5-cm-long tear to second photograph). Open tear at the upper left corner of the first photograph.
1. A photograph of workers in Zichron Ya'akov. Seen in the foreground are mules harnessed to carts bearing barrels of wine produced in the colony's winery. The photograph is signed and titled in the plate: "Transport of grapes in Zichron Ya'akov, Edelstein".
2. Group photograph taken in the barrel cellar at the Zichron Ya'akov winery. Titled in the plate: "'Zichron Ya'akov', the Cellar".
The photographer, Bernard Edelstein, was active in the years ca. 1893-1920. In the 1890s he took a series of photographs of settlements in Palestine supported by Baron Rothschild, including the colony of Zichron Ya'akov. For additional information see: "Photographers of Palestine" by Guy Raz (Hakkibutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2003), p. 22.
Two photographs: approx. 21X28 cm. Good condition. Creases. Some tears to margins (approx. 2.5-cm-long tear to second photograph). Open tear at the upper left corner of the first photograph.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
63 studio photographs. Palestine, ca. 1920s-1940s (two photographs from the 1950s).
A collection of stylized studio photographs of individuals, families and groups, most of them printed on postcards. Among the photographs: • Numerous photographs portraying the subjects in boats on the shores of Tel-Aviv and Jaffa or in airplanes. • Photographs portraying the subjects riding camels, horses and even an elephant, most of them on the beach. • Photographs portraying the subjects in local ethnic attires, among them a photograph of a family in Arab garments by Avraham Soskin and a photograph of a woman drawing water from the Ein Harod spring. • Series of photographs of a girl named Miriam Amram, in different costumes. Some are ink-stamped on the back with "Photo Rimon" stamp. Tel-Aviv, 1936. • Souvenir photographs designed as banknotes of one Palestine Pound. • Photographs designed as postal stamps.
Among the photographers: "American Colony", "Photo Rimon", Zvi Cohen, "Zalmaniya Shulamit'", and others.
Some of the photographs are signed and a small number are dated on the back. Some bear a dedication on the back.
Approx. 2.5X2.5 cm to approx. 9X14 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Creases. Some tears and fractures. Some photographs are damaged.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
A collection of stylized studio photographs of individuals, families and groups, most of them printed on postcards. Among the photographs: • Numerous photographs portraying the subjects in boats on the shores of Tel-Aviv and Jaffa or in airplanes. • Photographs portraying the subjects riding camels, horses and even an elephant, most of them on the beach. • Photographs portraying the subjects in local ethnic attires, among them a photograph of a family in Arab garments by Avraham Soskin and a photograph of a woman drawing water from the Ein Harod spring. • Series of photographs of a girl named Miriam Amram, in different costumes. Some are ink-stamped on the back with "Photo Rimon" stamp. Tel-Aviv, 1936. • Souvenir photographs designed as banknotes of one Palestine Pound. • Photographs designed as postal stamps.
Among the photographers: "American Colony", "Photo Rimon", Zvi Cohen, "Zalmaniya Shulamit'", and others.
Some of the photographs are signed and a small number are dated on the back. Some bear a dedication on the back.
Approx. 2.5X2.5 cm to approx. 9X14 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Creases. Some tears and fractures. Some photographs are damaged.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $3,000
Unsold
Thirty-four photographs by the photographer Ya'akov Ben-Dov (Jacob Bendov), founder of the Bezalel photography department. Jerusalem, Tiberias, Safed, Hebron, Migdal and other locations, [ca. 1900s-1910s].
The photographs portray, among others: Boris Schatz with a class of students during a trip to the Jerusalem mountains; Ya'akov Eisenberg, Zohara Schatz and two students painting tiles in the Bezalel ceramics workshop (In the background appears a ceramic tile picture after an illustration by Ze'ev Raban for the Song of Songs); Jews praying at the Western Wall on the holiday of Succoth, one of them performing "Netilat Lulav"; Tomb of Absalom, Tomb of Zechariah and Tomb of Benei Hezir near Jerusalem; Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock; Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron; Grave of Rambam in Tiberias; main street in Rishon LeZion; Migdal (seven photographs, including two photographs of the founder of Migdal Moshe Glikin and a photo-montage – Lord Melchett stands, seemingly, on the roadside); Ze'ev Jabotinsky surrounded by guards in Acre prison; and more.
Two photographs are signed in the plate: "Y. Ben-Dov, Bezalel, Jerusalem" and three are titled. 10 photographs are stamped on verso with the photographer's stamp.
Approx. 10X14 cm – 21.5X16.5 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Stains and blemishes (mostly slight). A small number of photographs have tears reinforced with adhesive tape on the back. Two photographs have open tears at corners. A piece is cut out from the bottom of one photograph. Handwritten notes on the back of a number of photographs.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
The photographs portray, among others: Boris Schatz with a class of students during a trip to the Jerusalem mountains; Ya'akov Eisenberg, Zohara Schatz and two students painting tiles in the Bezalel ceramics workshop (In the background appears a ceramic tile picture after an illustration by Ze'ev Raban for the Song of Songs); Jews praying at the Western Wall on the holiday of Succoth, one of them performing "Netilat Lulav"; Tomb of Absalom, Tomb of Zechariah and Tomb of Benei Hezir near Jerusalem; Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock; Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron; Grave of Rambam in Tiberias; main street in Rishon LeZion; Migdal (seven photographs, including two photographs of the founder of Migdal Moshe Glikin and a photo-montage – Lord Melchett stands, seemingly, on the roadside); Ze'ev Jabotinsky surrounded by guards in Acre prison; and more.
Two photographs are signed in the plate: "Y. Ben-Dov, Bezalel, Jerusalem" and three are titled. 10 photographs are stamped on verso with the photographer's stamp.
Approx. 10X14 cm – 21.5X16.5 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Stains and blemishes (mostly slight). A small number of photographs have tears reinforced with adhesive tape on the back. Two photographs have open tears at corners. A piece is cut out from the bottom of one photograph. Handwritten notes on the back of a number of photographs.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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Maps, Travelogues, Photography
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
Album with 31 photographs of Palestine, by Ya'akov Ben-Dov (Jacob Bendov) and photographers of the American Colony photography department in Jerusalem. This album was presented to C. S. Phillips, secretary of the Jerusalem Musical Society upon his departure from Palestine in 1923.
The album contains: • Photographs of Jerusalem and the vicinity (streets in the Old City, Dome of the Rock, El Aqsa Mosque, worshippers at the Western Wall, and more). • Photographs of Tiberias, Migdal and the Sea of Galilee. • Photographs of Yemenite Jews and Arab women. • Photograph of Ya'akov Ben-Dov's daughter, dressed as Ruth the Moabite. • Photographs of views in towns and settlements in Palestine.
Thirteen of the photographs are ink-stamped with American Colony stamps ("American Colony Jerusalem") and seven are ink-stamped with Ya'akov Ben-Dov's stamp ("J. Bendow").
The album is bound in a leather binding (detached) with a dedication in English to C. S. Phillips, from the Jerusalem Musical Society, dated June 1923. According to the dedication, the album was given to Phillips before he left Palestine, as a token of appreciation for his service as secretary of the Jerusalem Musical Society from the day of its foundation (the society was founded in 1921 by Thelma Yellin).
31 photographs, mounted on the album's leaves. Photographs: 22X28 cm. Album: 42X32 cm. Photographs in good condition. Tears (some are open tears) and stains to album's leaves and to tissue guards. Last leaf is detached. The binding is detached and the album leaves were re-bound with thread. Binding in fair condition (wear, tears and stains). The dedication on the binding is slightly faded. The album is inserted in a fine case.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
The album contains: • Photographs of Jerusalem and the vicinity (streets in the Old City, Dome of the Rock, El Aqsa Mosque, worshippers at the Western Wall, and more). • Photographs of Tiberias, Migdal and the Sea of Galilee. • Photographs of Yemenite Jews and Arab women. • Photograph of Ya'akov Ben-Dov's daughter, dressed as Ruth the Moabite. • Photographs of views in towns and settlements in Palestine.
Thirteen of the photographs are ink-stamped with American Colony stamps ("American Colony Jerusalem") and seven are ink-stamped with Ya'akov Ben-Dov's stamp ("J. Bendow").
The album is bound in a leather binding (detached) with a dedication in English to C. S. Phillips, from the Jerusalem Musical Society, dated June 1923. According to the dedication, the album was given to Phillips before he left Palestine, as a token of appreciation for his service as secretary of the Jerusalem Musical Society from the day of its foundation (the society was founded in 1921 by Thelma Yellin).
31 photographs, mounted on the album's leaves. Photographs: 22X28 cm. Album: 42X32 cm. Photographs in good condition. Tears (some are open tears) and stains to album's leaves and to tissue guards. Last leaf is detached. The binding is detached and the album leaves were re-bound with thread. Binding in fair condition (wear, tears and stains). The dedication on the binding is slightly faded. The album is inserted in a fine case.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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![30 photographs by photographer Avraham Soskin. Palestine, [first decades of the 20th century]. 1-16. Sixteen photographs refl](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/94_1.jpg "Collection of Photographs by Avraham Soskin – Palestine, First Decades")
![30 photographs by photographer Avraham Soskin. Palestine, [first decades of the 20th century]. 1-16. Sixteen photographs refl](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/94_2.jpg "Collection of Photographs by Avraham Soskin – Palestine, First Decades")
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,500
Unsold
30 photographs by photographer Avraham Soskin. Palestine, [first decades of the 20th century].
1-16. Sixteen photographs reflecting the different facets of Jewish settlement and activity in Palestine during the first decades of the 20th century: laborers in an orchard, a Purim party at a kindergarten in Tel Aviv, Lord Balfour and his entourage in Tel Aviv [1925], swamp drainage in the Jezreel Valley, tobacco farming at Ben Shemen, work on a dairy farm in a Jewish settlement (apparently Beit Alpha), a plantation and a beehive in Kibbutz Geva, the Roaring Lion monument at Tel Hai and more.
17-30. Fourteen portraits of women, men and children photographed in a studio. Most are divided on verso to be used as postcards, with dedications on verso of some. One of the photographs is signed by the subject ("Prof. A Schor").
26 of the photographs are stamped (most with embossed stamps. Others are stamped on verso. Some have printed labels on the cards on which they are mounted). Three of the photographs are stamped on verso with the stamp of the "Agricultural Museum of the Zionist Organization, Jerusalem" (the museum operated in Jerusalem in the years 1920-1927). In some cases, details were added by hand in the negative or on the photographs.
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) was born in Russia and immigrated to Palestine in 1905. He settled in the German colony in Jaffa and opened the "Photographia Progress" photography studio together with G. Bruck. In 1914 Soskin moved to 24 Herzl St., where the second floor served as both a photography studio and a home for his family and himself; at this studio, called "Photographia A. Soskin", he worked for 19 years, until 1933 (the year the studio was closed). Soskin, known as the "Photographer of Tel Aviv", was among the most important photographers active in Palestine during the Yishuv period. He is unique in the abundance of photographs he took documenting the first two decades of the first Hebrew city.
30 photographs. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
1-16. Sixteen photographs reflecting the different facets of Jewish settlement and activity in Palestine during the first decades of the 20th century: laborers in an orchard, a Purim party at a kindergarten in Tel Aviv, Lord Balfour and his entourage in Tel Aviv [1925], swamp drainage in the Jezreel Valley, tobacco farming at Ben Shemen, work on a dairy farm in a Jewish settlement (apparently Beit Alpha), a plantation and a beehive in Kibbutz Geva, the Roaring Lion monument at Tel Hai and more.
17-30. Fourteen portraits of women, men and children photographed in a studio. Most are divided on verso to be used as postcards, with dedications on verso of some. One of the photographs is signed by the subject ("Prof. A Schor").
26 of the photographs are stamped (most with embossed stamps. Others are stamped on verso. Some have printed labels on the cards on which they are mounted). Three of the photographs are stamped on verso with the stamp of the "Agricultural Museum of the Zionist Organization, Jerusalem" (the museum operated in Jerusalem in the years 1920-1927). In some cases, details were added by hand in the negative or on the photographs.
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) was born in Russia and immigrated to Palestine in 1905. He settled in the German colony in Jaffa and opened the "Photographia Progress" photography studio together with G. Bruck. In 1914 Soskin moved to 24 Herzl St., where the second floor served as both a photography studio and a home for his family and himself; at this studio, called "Photographia A. Soskin", he worked for 19 years, until 1933 (the year the studio was closed). Soskin, known as the "Photographer of Tel Aviv", was among the most important photographers active in Palestine during the Yishuv period. He is unique in the abundance of photographs he took documenting the first two decades of the first Hebrew city.
30 photographs. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $4,750
Including buyer's premium
26 original photographs by Avraham Soskin, mounted in an album, presented as a souvenir to Maxa Nordau, daughter of Max Nordau. Tel-Aviv, 1926.
Twenty-six original photographs taken by photographer Avraham Soskin, documenting the first years of Tel Aviv and the neighborhoods named after Max Nordau – Nordia and Tel Nordau, the reinternment of the remains of Max Nordau and his grave.
A leaf is pasted at the opening of the album with a printed dedication: "With the Compliments of the Township of Tel Aviv, to Miss Maxa Nordau, In Souvenir of Her Visit to Tel-Aviv in May 1926".
The photographs portray: the first meeting of Tel Aviv settlers on the site of Tel Aviv ("The Seashell Lottery", April 11, 1909) - rare photograph; leveling sand dunes; Herzl Street in 1910 and in the years 1924-1925; Rothschild Boulevard (in the years 1910, 1925); Herzlia Gymnasium; Nordia quarter; Tel Nordau neighborhood; the reinternment of the remains of Max Nordau opposite the old city hall building; Menachem Ussishkin delivering a speech in memory of Nordau at "Beit Ha'am"; Nordau's grave; and more. The photographs are accompanied by title-notes (printed in English. Numbered 1-20, 22-27). Unsigned.
Maxa Nordau (1897-1991) – French painter, illustrator and author, the only daughter of Max Nordau (1849-1923) – one of the founders of the Zionist Movement, philosopher, physician and author, born in Hungary. Max Nordau died in 1923, while visiting Paris. In 1926 his remains were buried in Palestine, in the cemetery on Trumpeldor Street in Tel Aviv.
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) was born in Russia and immigrated to Palestine in 1905. He settled in the German colony in Jaffa and opened the "Photographia Progress" photography studio together with G. Bruck. In 1914 Soskin moved to 24 Herzl St., where the second floor served as both a photography studio and a home for his family and himself; at this studio, called "Photographia A. Soskin", he worked for 19 years, until 1933 (the year the studio was closed). Soskin, known as the "Photographer of Tel Aviv", was among the most important photographers active in Palestine during the Yishuv period. He is unique in the abundance of photographs he took documenting the first two decades of the first Hebrew city; some of Soskin's photos from those years, which became iconic and most identified with the early days of Tel Aviv, are included in this album.
Photographs: approx. 9X16.5 cm - 11X17 cm. Album: 21.5X27 cm, bound with string. Good condition. Minor blemishes to binding.
Twenty-six original photographs taken by photographer Avraham Soskin, documenting the first years of Tel Aviv and the neighborhoods named after Max Nordau – Nordia and Tel Nordau, the reinternment of the remains of Max Nordau and his grave.
A leaf is pasted at the opening of the album with a printed dedication: "With the Compliments of the Township of Tel Aviv, to Miss Maxa Nordau, In Souvenir of Her Visit to Tel-Aviv in May 1926".
The photographs portray: the first meeting of Tel Aviv settlers on the site of Tel Aviv ("The Seashell Lottery", April 11, 1909) - rare photograph; leveling sand dunes; Herzl Street in 1910 and in the years 1924-1925; Rothschild Boulevard (in the years 1910, 1925); Herzlia Gymnasium; Nordia quarter; Tel Nordau neighborhood; the reinternment of the remains of Max Nordau opposite the old city hall building; Menachem Ussishkin delivering a speech in memory of Nordau at "Beit Ha'am"; Nordau's grave; and more. The photographs are accompanied by title-notes (printed in English. Numbered 1-20, 22-27). Unsigned.
Maxa Nordau (1897-1991) – French painter, illustrator and author, the only daughter of Max Nordau (1849-1923) – one of the founders of the Zionist Movement, philosopher, physician and author, born in Hungary. Max Nordau died in 1923, while visiting Paris. In 1926 his remains were buried in Palestine, in the cemetery on Trumpeldor Street in Tel Aviv.
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) was born in Russia and immigrated to Palestine in 1905. He settled in the German colony in Jaffa and opened the "Photographia Progress" photography studio together with G. Bruck. In 1914 Soskin moved to 24 Herzl St., where the second floor served as both a photography studio and a home for his family and himself; at this studio, called "Photographia A. Soskin", he worked for 19 years, until 1933 (the year the studio was closed). Soskin, known as the "Photographer of Tel Aviv", was among the most important photographers active in Palestine during the Yishuv period. He is unique in the abundance of photographs he took documenting the first two decades of the first Hebrew city; some of Soskin's photos from those years, which became iconic and most identified with the early days of Tel Aviv, are included in this album.
Photographs: approx. 9X16.5 cm - 11X17 cm. Album: 21.5X27 cm, bound with string. Good condition. Minor blemishes to binding.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,500
Unsold
Album with 26 photographs of classrooms, pupils during various activities and teachers in Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, from its early days in the historic building in Tel-Aviv, by Avraham Soskin. [ca. 1910 through 1920s].
In the album appear photographs of pupils and teachers in classrooms, class pictures, photographs of the gymnasium building, and more, by Avraham Soskin: • The principle, Dr. Ben Zion Mosensohn, standing in a corridor. Signed in the plate: "Soskin Zadok, Jaffa". • Classroom with Dr. Haim Bograshov. • Gymnastics class with the teacher Zvi Nishri. • Sewing class with the teacher Haya Wiezmann-Lichtenstein. • Class picture (montage) of students and teachers of the first year in Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, Tel-Aviv, (1913). Signed in the plate "Soskin Zadok, Jaffa". • Façade of the Herzliya gymnasium building in Tel-Aviv. • Natural science class with Dr. Matman. • The school staff.
The other photographs were also, most probably, taken by Soskin, among them: • Science class with the teacher (Raphael?) Sverdlov. • Gymnastics class for girls in the school's courtyard. • Literature class with the teacher Raphael Sofferman. • Bible class with Dr. Ben Zion Mosinsohn. • Preparatory class with the teacher Sarah Braverman-Kaniuk. • Carpentry class. • Wind orchestra. • Gymnastics class in the school's courtyard. • And more.
All of the photographs are mounted on the album's leaves.
16X11 cm – 17X12 cm, one photograph: 13X9.5 cm. Album: 31.5X25 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Tears and stains to tissue guards. Creases to album's leaves. Blemishes and tears to album's binding and spine.
In the album appear photographs of pupils and teachers in classrooms, class pictures, photographs of the gymnasium building, and more, by Avraham Soskin: • The principle, Dr. Ben Zion Mosensohn, standing in a corridor. Signed in the plate: "Soskin Zadok, Jaffa". • Classroom with Dr. Haim Bograshov. • Gymnastics class with the teacher Zvi Nishri. • Sewing class with the teacher Haya Wiezmann-Lichtenstein. • Class picture (montage) of students and teachers of the first year in Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, Tel-Aviv, (1913). Signed in the plate "Soskin Zadok, Jaffa". • Façade of the Herzliya gymnasium building in Tel-Aviv. • Natural science class with Dr. Matman. • The school staff.
The other photographs were also, most probably, taken by Soskin, among them: • Science class with the teacher (Raphael?) Sverdlov. • Gymnastics class for girls in the school's courtyard. • Literature class with the teacher Raphael Sofferman. • Bible class with Dr. Ben Zion Mosinsohn. • Preparatory class with the teacher Sarah Braverman-Kaniuk. • Carpentry class. • Wind orchestra. • Gymnastics class in the school's courtyard. • And more.
All of the photographs are mounted on the album's leaves.
16X11 cm – 17X12 cm, one photograph: 13X9.5 cm. Album: 31.5X25 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Tears and stains to tissue guards. Creases to album's leaves. Blemishes and tears to album's binding and spine.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $800
Unsold
Album with about 80 photographs; most of them document the activity of Habima theater and the Israeli Opera from the day of foundation. Israel, 1920s-1960s (a number of photographs from the 1970s).
In the album:
• 24 photographs from the early years of Habima theater, 1920s through 1940s, among them: preparation of masks for the play "HaOtzar" and scenes from the same play. Photographer: Avraham Soskin, Tel-Aviv, 1929. Signed in the plate; group photographs of the actors, stage workers and administrative team of Habima in the 1920s, 30s and 40s; Habima people with the Russian director Aleksei Dikiy (1930) and the director Barukh Chemerinsky and set designer Emanuel Luftglas, [1934]; portrait photograph of Hanna Rovina, signed "S. Alexander" (probably Sasha Alexander), dedicated in Rovina's handwriting to "Yehezkel – a colleague" (Hebrew), and signed by her. [1930s or 40s]; and more.
• Two photographs of scenes out of a play staged by Hamatateh theater, and a photograph of an amphitheater in Haifa (empty) while staging a play [ca. 1935].
• 44 photographs of operas by the Israeli Opera, preparing stage sets for operas, procedure of work prior to staging and more. 1940-1960s. Among them: Edis de Philippe, founder of the opera, with set designer Yehezkel Goldman on the stage of Habima theater, dated 1951 and dedicated to Goldman in de Philippe's handwriting; scenes out of various operas, among them Don Pasquale (1958), Nabucodonosor (Nabucco, 1958), Samson and Delilah, (1961), The Pearl Fishers (1964), and more.
• Other photographs, including photographs of the Sderot Cinema building, constructed for the Eretz-Israeli Theater and used by Habima in its early days, Eden Cinema building in Tel-Aviv which served the Israeli Opera during its early days, and more.
Most of Habima photographs are titled on the back by hand. The Israeli Opera photographs are partly titled on the back, by hand and ink-stamped by various photographers: "Studio Alexander", D. Rosenblum, "Zalmaniya 'Pri Or'" and more. Most photographs are titled on the album's leaves.
Habima theater was founded in Moscow in 1917 by Nahum Zemach, Menachem Gnessin and Hanna Rovina. In 1927 the group split: Zemach and some of the actors settled in New York, while the others immigrated to Palestine. Shortly afterwards it was decided to reorganize the theater as a collective and from the 1930s for a long period of time the directors were chosen only among the members of the collective. Habima functioned as a collective until 1969.
The Israeli Opera was founded by the singer Edis de Philippe in 1947. For lack of a permanent residence, the opera appeared during its first years on different stages and until 1954 performed every Tuesdays in Habima theater.
Photographs: 6.5X4.5 cm to 24X18.5 cm., album: 38.5X30 cm. Good to fair overall condition. Stains, creases and blemishes. A number of photographs are torn (with open tears). Some of the opera's photographs are mounted on the album's leaves. The leaves are loose and some are detached. Blemishes, tears, creases and stains to tissue guards. Blemishes and tears to binding.
In the album:
• 24 photographs from the early years of Habima theater, 1920s through 1940s, among them: preparation of masks for the play "HaOtzar" and scenes from the same play. Photographer: Avraham Soskin, Tel-Aviv, 1929. Signed in the plate; group photographs of the actors, stage workers and administrative team of Habima in the 1920s, 30s and 40s; Habima people with the Russian director Aleksei Dikiy (1930) and the director Barukh Chemerinsky and set designer Emanuel Luftglas, [1934]; portrait photograph of Hanna Rovina, signed "S. Alexander" (probably Sasha Alexander), dedicated in Rovina's handwriting to "Yehezkel – a colleague" (Hebrew), and signed by her. [1930s or 40s]; and more.
• Two photographs of scenes out of a play staged by Hamatateh theater, and a photograph of an amphitheater in Haifa (empty) while staging a play [ca. 1935].
• 44 photographs of operas by the Israeli Opera, preparing stage sets for operas, procedure of work prior to staging and more. 1940-1960s. Among them: Edis de Philippe, founder of the opera, with set designer Yehezkel Goldman on the stage of Habima theater, dated 1951 and dedicated to Goldman in de Philippe's handwriting; scenes out of various operas, among them Don Pasquale (1958), Nabucodonosor (Nabucco, 1958), Samson and Delilah, (1961), The Pearl Fishers (1964), and more.
• Other photographs, including photographs of the Sderot Cinema building, constructed for the Eretz-Israeli Theater and used by Habima in its early days, Eden Cinema building in Tel-Aviv which served the Israeli Opera during its early days, and more.
Most of Habima photographs are titled on the back by hand. The Israeli Opera photographs are partly titled on the back, by hand and ink-stamped by various photographers: "Studio Alexander", D. Rosenblum, "Zalmaniya 'Pri Or'" and more. Most photographs are titled on the album's leaves.
Habima theater was founded in Moscow in 1917 by Nahum Zemach, Menachem Gnessin and Hanna Rovina. In 1927 the group split: Zemach and some of the actors settled in New York, while the others immigrated to Palestine. Shortly afterwards it was decided to reorganize the theater as a collective and from the 1930s for a long period of time the directors were chosen only among the members of the collective. Habima functioned as a collective until 1969.
The Israeli Opera was founded by the singer Edis de Philippe in 1947. For lack of a permanent residence, the opera appeared during its first years on different stages and until 1954 performed every Tuesdays in Habima theater.
Photographs: 6.5X4.5 cm to 24X18.5 cm., album: 38.5X30 cm. Good to fair overall condition. Stains, creases and blemishes. A number of photographs are torn (with open tears). Some of the opera's photographs are mounted on the album's leaves. The leaves are loose and some are detached. Blemishes, tears, creases and stains to tissue guards. Blemishes and tears to binding.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
Nine early photographs of pioneers and colonies in Palestine. Nahalal, Degania and Kvutzat Kineret, [ca. 1920s].
The photographs depict, among other things: the farm and the eucalyptus orchard in Kvutzat Kineret; a pioneer among palm trees in Degania; different stages of paving a road near Nahalal – transporting rocks with horse carriages, shattering and crashing rocks to gravel with a "new machine"; and more.
Two photographs are signed in the plate: "Zalmania Z. Feigin, Haifa" [Zvi Feigin]. Two photographs are titled in the plate, and all the photographs are titled on the back by hand (German).
Approx. 14.5X9 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes (mostly to corners, margins and to the back). One photograph has a small open tear at margin.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
The photographs depict, among other things: the farm and the eucalyptus orchard in Kvutzat Kineret; a pioneer among palm trees in Degania; different stages of paving a road near Nahalal – transporting rocks with horse carriages, shattering and crashing rocks to gravel with a "new machine"; and more.
Two photographs are signed in the plate: "Zalmania Z. Feigin, Haifa" [Zvi Feigin]. Two photographs are titled in the plate, and all the photographs are titled on the back by hand (German).
Approx. 14.5X9 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes (mostly to corners, margins and to the back). One photograph has a small open tear at margin.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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