More than one thousand press photographs and thousands of negatives. Israel and the Middle East, ca. 1970s to 1990s.
Most of the photographs in this collection are from the 1970s or early 1980s, and they offer a wide scope documentation of the public life in Israel in these years. Among them:
• Hundreds of photographs of Israeli leaders, politicians and public figures – Menachem Begin, Yitzchak Rabin, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Yigal Alon, Ariel Sharon, Yitzchak Shamir, Yitzchak Navon, Shimon Peres and others.
• Hundreds of photographs of IDF and Israeli Security Forces - IDF soldiers in South Lebanon during "Operation Litani", in 1978; inauguration of "Merkava" Tank in Jerusalem in 1978; soldiers observing tents and caravans in Shilo settlement; photographs of terror attack scenes in Israel; and more.
• Dozens of photographs documenting the peace process between Israel and Egypt; numerous photographs of meetings between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli representatives; numerous photographs from the visit of Henri Kissinger in Israel in 1975; Dov Sion and the Egyptian General Saif-A-Din in an Israeli-Egyptian joint committee for enforcement of the peace treaty, in 1979; IDF soldiers folding the Israeli flag in a formal ceremony prior to the withdrawal from an occupied area in Sinai; and more.
• Hundreds of photographs from various events: protest of Shalom Achshav activists along a Tel-Aviv road, 1978; arrest of Arab protestors against Jewish prayers on the Temple Mount; Yizhar Cohen performing with his group in the Eurovision contest; visit of Elizabeth Taylor in the Western Wall; numerous photographs of sports groups; and more.
Information notes for the press (in English) are pasted on the margins of most of the photographs, and on the back of a small number appear handwritten inscriptions and ink-stamps. Names of photographers appear on the back of some of the photographs: David Rubinger, Rachamim Israeli, Shalom Bartal, Roth [Yossi Roth], Tauber [Oscar Tauber] and other press photographers of the period.
Enclosed are thousands of negatives, most probably of the same events documented in the photographs.
Size and condition vary. Most photographs are approx. 20X25 cm, a number are smaller. Good overall condition.

180 postcards depicting biblical and Jewish subjects. Published by Phönix, Leo Winz, Joseph Spiro, Louis Lamm, Ph. Baecker, Judischer Verlag, L. Monsohn, Moshe Ordmann, and others. Germany, Austria, Poland and Palestine, [first decades of the 20th century].
The collection includes postcards depicting various aspects of Jewish life: numerous postcards with paintings of biblical scenes, among them many postcards from the Alttestamentliche Bilder series; postcards with paintings by various artists portraying holidays and customs related to the Jewish life cycle; postcards with portraits of famous Jewish figures, intellectuals, philosophers and Zionist leaders; postcards with works by E.M. Lilien; and more.
28 of the postcards are undivided.
Average size: 14X9 cm. Condition varies, good to fair-poor. Creases. Some tears. Stains. Many postcards were used. Arranged in an album.

83 postcards with paintings and photographs of Jews engaged in different occupations. Different publishers. Europe and North Africa, [first decades of the 20th century].
The postcards present paintings and photographs of Jews in various towns throughout Europe, in North Africa and in Palestine, among them: Jews at prayer and during study; Jews in the streets of Carlsbad, Marienbad, Lida, Stanislawow, Lodz and other cities; "Jewish characters" from Eastern Europe, Bukhara and North Africa (some postcards are titled, for example, "Talmud Chochem", "Schacharis" and "Git Shabes"); Jewish craftsmen and merchants at work – knife sharpener, fabric merchant, Yemenite porter, peddlers and silversmiths in Tbilisi, Jewish families by their homes, and more.
20 postcards in the collection are undivided. A small photograph is pasted on one postcard.
Enclosed is a card which is not a postcard.
Average size: 9X14 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Some creases. 38 postcards were used. Traces of pasting to album on the back of one postcard.

40 "Shanah Tovah" postcards and greeting cards. Palestine, Europe and the United States, late 19th and first half of the 20th century.
Among the postcards and greeting cards: • "Shanah Tovah" greeting card printed in golden ink on a red transparency (text in Hebrew and German). • Undivided "Shanah Tovah" postcard with printed greetings from "Mr. & Mrs. Abe Emanuel", Dunedin, New Zealand. Sent in 1904. • "Shanah Tovah" Greeting Card issued by the B. Manischewitz food company, printed on a background designed as a Matzah. Cincinnati, USA, 1908. • "LeShanah Tovah Tikatevu" postcard with Theodor Herzl's portrait. • "LeShanah Tovah Tikatevu" postcard, printed by Weiner Werkstatte, [ca. 1910]. • Five real-photo postcards with photographs of the senders, among them a postcard from Tel-Aviv (1928) and a postcard with the text "Long Live the Port of Tel-Aviv" (1936). • Two embroidered postcards. • And more.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.