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Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $1,500
Unsold
Approx. 130 certificates, confirmations, tickets, letters and other paper items, documenting the immigration to Palestine during the British Mandate and the first years of the State. Haifa, Jaffa, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere, ca. 1920s to 1950s (one later item). Hebrew and some English (several items are in other languages).
This collection documents the immigration to Palestine during the British Mandate and to Israel during the first decade of the State, and it contains: • Dozens of certificates and confirmations given to immigrants with their arrival to the country (including disembarkation permits, two immigrant certificates issued by the Provisional State Council of Israel, certificates with names of immigrants and ships issued by the Jewish Agency, and more). • Dozens of letters about immigration (including a letter from 1935 by Moshe Sharet – a request to allow the brother of a Jewish policeman to immigrate to Palestine). • A circular issued by the Jewish National Council – an announcement about a strike in the Jewish Yishuv in protest of the restriction on Jewish immigration (1934). • Twenty telegrams from the years 1948-1949, which were sent by the Paris branch of the Jewish Agency to the department for youth immigration in Palestine – requests to bring groups of children from France to Palestine. • A handwritten notebook and ledger owned by a stock keeper at the "Sha'ar HaAliya" immigrant camp in Haifa, 1950. • "The Little Immigrant, Suite for Children, with Illustrations by Bathja Bayer" (Hebrew), booklet of sheet music by Aviasaf Bernstein. • And more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
This collection documents the immigration to Palestine during the British Mandate and to Israel during the first decade of the State, and it contains: • Dozens of certificates and confirmations given to immigrants with their arrival to the country (including disembarkation permits, two immigrant certificates issued by the Provisional State Council of Israel, certificates with names of immigrants and ships issued by the Jewish Agency, and more). • Dozens of letters about immigration (including a letter from 1935 by Moshe Sharet – a request to allow the brother of a Jewish policeman to immigrate to Palestine). • A circular issued by the Jewish National Council – an announcement about a strike in the Jewish Yishuv in protest of the restriction on Jewish immigration (1934). • Twenty telegrams from the years 1948-1949, which were sent by the Paris branch of the Jewish Agency to the department for youth immigration in Palestine – requests to bring groups of children from France to Palestine. • A handwritten notebook and ledger owned by a stock keeper at the "Sha'ar HaAliya" immigrant camp in Haifa, 1950. • "The Little Immigrant, Suite for Children, with Illustrations by Bathja Bayer" (Hebrew), booklet of sheet music by Aviasaf Bernstein. • And more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
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Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium
Approx. 84 photographs and paper items documenting the illegal immigration to Palestine. Various places in Palestine, 1930s and 1940s (most items are from the late 1940s). Hebrew and some English.
The collection contains approx. 60 photographs, among them: a fast patrol boat of the British Mandate watching for illegal immigrant ships (1945); the illegal immigrants of the ship Shabtai Luzinski dancing the "Hora" on the shore of Gaza under the watchful eyes of British soldiers (1947); a religious boy eating matzah near a ship; and more. Thirty-seven photographs are mounted on paper and captioned by hand, and they document the mistreatment of illegal immigrants by the British (illegal immigrants being forcefully taken from the ship, a train with barred windows carrying illegal immigrants to a detention camp, photographs of illegal immigrants in detention camps, and more). Alongside the photographs, the collection also contains 24 paper items, including: • Yizkor – a prayer leaf in memory of the victims of illegal immigration, with the prayers "El Maleh Rachamim" (God Full of Mercy), "Kaddish" and a special "Yizkor" prayer for the "illegal immigrants to Palestine, who risked their lives" (Hebrew). Appearing on the first page is a note: "Presented to the immigrants far out at sea, by the immigration department, the Jewish Agency". • A long letter (7 pages), sent by a British sailor on a patrol ship to his family. Addressing his fear of the "Stern Gang" (the Lehi organization), the search for ships of illegal immigrants and the sight of the shores of Palestine from sea. • "Sonnenaufgang am Meer" [Sunrise at Sea], a woodcut by Jacob Steinhardt – signed, in Hebrew and English. Depicts Jewish illegal immigrants crowding together on the deck of a ship. • And more.
Enclosed: a cloth badge of the "Af Al Pi" immigration – the Revisionist illegal immigration enterprise.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
The collection contains approx. 60 photographs, among them: a fast patrol boat of the British Mandate watching for illegal immigrant ships (1945); the illegal immigrants of the ship Shabtai Luzinski dancing the "Hora" on the shore of Gaza under the watchful eyes of British soldiers (1947); a religious boy eating matzah near a ship; and more. Thirty-seven photographs are mounted on paper and captioned by hand, and they document the mistreatment of illegal immigrants by the British (illegal immigrants being forcefully taken from the ship, a train with barred windows carrying illegal immigrants to a detention camp, photographs of illegal immigrants in detention camps, and more). Alongside the photographs, the collection also contains 24 paper items, including: • Yizkor – a prayer leaf in memory of the victims of illegal immigration, with the prayers "El Maleh Rachamim" (God Full of Mercy), "Kaddish" and a special "Yizkor" prayer for the "illegal immigrants to Palestine, who risked their lives" (Hebrew). Appearing on the first page is a note: "Presented to the immigrants far out at sea, by the immigration department, the Jewish Agency". • A long letter (7 pages), sent by a British sailor on a patrol ship to his family. Addressing his fear of the "Stern Gang" (the Lehi organization), the search for ships of illegal immigrants and the sight of the shores of Palestine from sea. • "Sonnenaufgang am Meer" [Sunrise at Sea], a woodcut by Jacob Steinhardt – signed, in Hebrew and English. Depicts Jewish illegal immigrants crowding together on the deck of a ship. • And more.
Enclosed: a cloth badge of the "Af Al Pi" immigration – the Revisionist illegal immigration enterprise.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
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![Netivot [Paths], a booklet issued by the educational farm for girls – Petach Tikvah. Printed in Tel Aviv, [ca. mid-1940s]. A](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale68-public/40_1.jpg "\"Netivot\" – Booklet Issued by the Educational Farm for Girls in Petach")
![Netivot [Paths], a booklet issued by the educational farm for girls – Petach Tikvah. Printed in Tel Aviv, [ca. mid-1940s]. A](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale68-public/40_2.jpg "\"Netivot\" – Booklet Issued by the Educational Farm for Girls in Petach")
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
Netivot [Paths], a booklet issued by the educational farm for girls – Petach Tikvah. Printed in Tel Aviv, [ca. mid-1940s].
A booklet issued by the educational farm for girls in Petach Tikvah; handwritten and mimeographed, with illustrations. The booklet contains articles dealing with the experiences and recollections of the girls studying at the farm – leaving their parents' house, the studies, agricultural work in the farm, the forming of the group, the shared trips, arguments, and more – alongside passages of poetry and prose.
At the beginning of the booklet are texts dealing with the Holocaust, the illegal immigration to Palestine and the establishment of settlements in the Negev, including a poem about the Holocaust titled "The Echo of the Days" (Hebrew) and an article titled "The Voice of Brothers and Tortured" (Hebrew) dealing with the illegal immigration and ending with the call "We have had enough of life in the Diaspora, let us return to our country".
The educational farm for girls had presumably evolved from the "Female Workers Farm", established in Petach Tikvah in 1922 in order to teach young women agricultural work and train them in managing an independent agricultural farm.
38 pp, approx. 21X16 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Minor stains on cover.
Not in OCLC.
A booklet issued by the educational farm for girls in Petach Tikvah; handwritten and mimeographed, with illustrations. The booklet contains articles dealing with the experiences and recollections of the girls studying at the farm – leaving their parents' house, the studies, agricultural work in the farm, the forming of the group, the shared trips, arguments, and more – alongside passages of poetry and prose.
At the beginning of the booklet are texts dealing with the Holocaust, the illegal immigration to Palestine and the establishment of settlements in the Negev, including a poem about the Holocaust titled "The Echo of the Days" (Hebrew) and an article titled "The Voice of Brothers and Tortured" (Hebrew) dealing with the illegal immigration and ending with the call "We have had enough of life in the Diaspora, let us return to our country".
The educational farm for girls had presumably evolved from the "Female Workers Farm", established in Petach Tikvah in 1922 in order to teach young women agricultural work and train them in managing an independent agricultural farm.
38 pp, approx. 21X16 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Minor stains on cover.
Not in OCLC.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $1,200
Sold for: $2,375
Including buyer's premium
Stone candlestick made in the detention camps in Cyprus, by the sculptor Nahman Vikrovitzky. Cyprus, 1948.
Rock gypsum, chiseled and engraved.
A candlestick shaped as the Hebrew letter "צ" with two indentation for candles. In the opening of the "צ" are the Hebrew letters י.ו.ן forming the Hebrew word ציון - "Zion".
The front of the candlestick is decorated with bunches of grapes and a view of David's Tower, and on its back is the Hebrew inscription "Cyprus 1948". The candlestick is placed on a square stone base decorated with bunches of grapes and a view of the Western Wall.
The sculptor Nahman Vikrovitzky (1924-2016), was born in Stolin (then Poland). On the eve of Rosh HaShanah 1942, his parents and all his family were murdered by the Nazis together with most of the Jewish population of the town. After the Holocaust, he tried to immigrate to Palestine on the illegal immigration ship SS Theodor Herzl, which sailed from France on April 2, 1947, and was caught opposite the shore of Tel-Aviv. During his imprisonment in Cyprus, which lasted about a year and a half, Vikrovitzky sculpted in wood and stone. In Cyprus there were two groups of artists: the first consisted of students of the professional art workshops taught by Ze'ev Ben Zvi, Naftali Bezem and Chana Liberman, whose works of art tended to be expressionist and gained artistic prestige, and who were appropriately equipped with hammers and chisels for working with stone. The second group was that of the 'amateur' artists whose works were considered by the first group as 'folkloristic' and simplistic. Vikrovitzky belonged to the second group and made his own work tools from nails, cans and other objects.
After Vikrovitzky immigrated to Israel, he commemorated the murdered in sculptures he exhibited in various venues and in 1993 was awarded the Hermann Struck Prize of the Haifa Municipality for his works of art commemorating the Holocaust.
For additional information about art in the detention camps in Cyprus see enclosed material:
1. Cyprus, the Art of Life: The Detention Camps, 1946-1949. Tel-Aviv: Eretz Israel Museum, 2017.
2. The Handiworks of the Cyprus Exiles Illegal Immigrants, by Ya'akov Koren (Hebrew), in the Israeli Numismatic Collector's Association newspaper [No year].
Height: 15 cm. Dimensions of base: 14X12 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes on edges. Glue to prevent slippage on the lower side of the stone base.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Rock gypsum, chiseled and engraved.
A candlestick shaped as the Hebrew letter "צ" with two indentation for candles. In the opening of the "צ" are the Hebrew letters י.ו.ן forming the Hebrew word ציון - "Zion".
The front of the candlestick is decorated with bunches of grapes and a view of David's Tower, and on its back is the Hebrew inscription "Cyprus 1948". The candlestick is placed on a square stone base decorated with bunches of grapes and a view of the Western Wall.
The sculptor Nahman Vikrovitzky (1924-2016), was born in Stolin (then Poland). On the eve of Rosh HaShanah 1942, his parents and all his family were murdered by the Nazis together with most of the Jewish population of the town. After the Holocaust, he tried to immigrate to Palestine on the illegal immigration ship SS Theodor Herzl, which sailed from France on April 2, 1947, and was caught opposite the shore of Tel-Aviv. During his imprisonment in Cyprus, which lasted about a year and a half, Vikrovitzky sculpted in wood and stone. In Cyprus there were two groups of artists: the first consisted of students of the professional art workshops taught by Ze'ev Ben Zvi, Naftali Bezem and Chana Liberman, whose works of art tended to be expressionist and gained artistic prestige, and who were appropriately equipped with hammers and chisels for working with stone. The second group was that of the 'amateur' artists whose works were considered by the first group as 'folkloristic' and simplistic. Vikrovitzky belonged to the second group and made his own work tools from nails, cans and other objects.
After Vikrovitzky immigrated to Israel, he commemorated the murdered in sculptures he exhibited in various venues and in 1993 was awarded the Hermann Struck Prize of the Haifa Municipality for his works of art commemorating the Holocaust.
For additional information about art in the detention camps in Cyprus see enclosed material:
1. Cyprus, the Art of Life: The Detention Camps, 1946-1949. Tel-Aviv: Eretz Israel Museum, 2017.
2. The Handiworks of the Cyprus Exiles Illegal Immigrants, by Ya'akov Koren (Hebrew), in the Israeli Numismatic Collector's Association newspaper [No year].
Height: 15 cm. Dimensions of base: 14X12 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes on edges. Glue to prevent slippage on the lower side of the stone base.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
Catalogue
![Two-light candlestick made of wood and stone, from the detention camps in Cyprus, [ca. 1948]. Wooden candlestick in the shape](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale68-public/42_1.jpg "Two-light Candlestick – Cyprus Detention Camps")
![Two-light candlestick made of wood and stone, from the detention camps in Cyprus, [ca. 1948]. Wooden candlestick in the shape](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale68-public/42_2.jpg "Two-light Candlestick – Cyprus Detention Camps")
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $600
Unsold
Two-light candlestick made of wood and stone, from the detention camps in Cyprus, [ca. 1948].
Wooden candlestick in the shape of an upwards-facing arch, on the top of which are two candle holders made of stone. Both sides of the candlestick body are inlaid with stone plaques with relief depicting the tin shacks and the tents in which the prisoners lived behind barbed wire and Hebrew inscriptions reading "Cyprus" and "5708" [1948]. The candlestick is placed on a round stone plate standing in turn on a square wooden base.
Height: 15.5 cm. Base: 9X9 cm. Good condition. Damage and chips with losses to both candle holders. Stains, blemishes and fractures to stone pieces. Slight blemishes to wood.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Wooden candlestick in the shape of an upwards-facing arch, on the top of which are two candle holders made of stone. Both sides of the candlestick body are inlaid with stone plaques with relief depicting the tin shacks and the tents in which the prisoners lived behind barbed wire and Hebrew inscriptions reading "Cyprus" and "5708" [1948]. The candlestick is placed on a round stone plate standing in turn on a square wooden base.
Height: 15.5 cm. Base: 9X9 cm. Good condition. Damage and chips with losses to both candle holders. Stains, blemishes and fractures to stone pieces. Slight blemishes to wood.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $800
Unsold
A wooden box with chiseled stone inlay, from the detention camps in Cyprus. Cyprus, 1948.
An octagonal wooden box; inlaid with stone plaques decorated with a pattern of barbed wire. The hinged lid of the box is inlaid with an octagonal plaque with a relief of a sailboat and the Hebrew inscriptions "Cyprus" and "5708" [1948].
Diameter: 16 cm. Height: 6 cm. Fractures, chipping and minor blemishes to the stone plaques and the wooden box. One of the plaques is broken and half of it is missing. Part of the inner lining of the box is missing. The box is affixed to a wooden base.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
An octagonal wooden box; inlaid with stone plaques decorated with a pattern of barbed wire. The hinged lid of the box is inlaid with an octagonal plaque with a relief of a sailboat and the Hebrew inscriptions "Cyprus" and "5708" [1948].
Diameter: 16 cm. Height: 6 cm. Fractures, chipping and minor blemishes to the stone plaques and the wooden box. One of the plaques is broken and half of it is missing. Part of the inner lining of the box is missing. The box is affixed to a wooden base.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $600
Unsold
Two pins for the members of "Shurot Hameginim" (The Defenders' Lines) in Cyprus and two souvenir pins from the Cyprus detention camps. [Cyprus, 1947-1949].
Since early 1947 until the closure of the detention camps in Cyprus in early 1949, delegations of Palmach members trained the illegal immigrants imprisoned in the camps in preparation for their immigration to Palestine and their joining the fighters of the Yishuv. The organization did not officially belong to the Palmach and therefore received a different, neutral name – "The Defenders' Lines".
1. A round pin, bearing the emblem of the Palmach and behind it a crossed hammer and sword, a hand holding two olive branches and the Hebrew legend "Shurot Hameginim Cyprus".
Diameter: 25 mm. Good condition.
2. A pin made of a Cypriot coin (Piaster or half a piaster), of which one side was filed. Bears a shield with a Zionist flag on it and the digits "121" with a crossed hammer and sword behind, a hand holding two olive branches the Hebrew legend "Shurot Hameginim Cyprus".
Diameter: 24 mm. Good condition. No fastener.
3-4. Two pins made of Cypriot coins (Piaster or half a piaster), of which one side was filed. On one of them appears a map of the island of Cyprus divided by a fence with a watchtower, barbed wire and the Hebrew inscription "Cyprus". The second pin is divided in half: on its upper part, under the Hebrew legend "Illegal Immigration", appears an illegal immigrant ship under an airplane. On its lower part appears a tin shack behind barbed wire fence with watchtowers, and the Hebrew legend "Cyprus".
Diameter: 24 mm. Condition varies.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Since early 1947 until the closure of the detention camps in Cyprus in early 1949, delegations of Palmach members trained the illegal immigrants imprisoned in the camps in preparation for their immigration to Palestine and their joining the fighters of the Yishuv. The organization did not officially belong to the Palmach and therefore received a different, neutral name – "The Defenders' Lines".
1. A round pin, bearing the emblem of the Palmach and behind it a crossed hammer and sword, a hand holding two olive branches and the Hebrew legend "Shurot Hameginim Cyprus".
Diameter: 25 mm. Good condition.
2. A pin made of a Cypriot coin (Piaster or half a piaster), of which one side was filed. Bears a shield with a Zionist flag on it and the digits "121" with a crossed hammer and sword behind, a hand holding two olive branches the Hebrew legend "Shurot Hameginim Cyprus".
Diameter: 24 mm. Good condition. No fastener.
3-4. Two pins made of Cypriot coins (Piaster or half a piaster), of which one side was filed. On one of them appears a map of the island of Cyprus divided by a fence with a watchtower, barbed wire and the Hebrew inscription "Cyprus". The second pin is divided in half: on its upper part, under the Hebrew legend "Illegal Immigration", appears an illegal immigrant ship under an airplane. On its lower part appears a tin shack behind barbed wire fence with watchtowers, and the Hebrew legend "Cyprus".
Diameter: 24 mm. Condition varies.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $800
Unsold
45 issues of newspapers, printed booklets and handwritten drafts, which were written and printed in the detention camps in Cyprus. Many of them are illustrated. Cyprus, [ca. 1948-1949]. Hebrew, some Yiddish and some English.
In the collection:
• Nine issues and two title pages of the newspaper "Al HaSaf", a weekly for students and graduates of the Pinhas Rutenberg JDC Seminar in Cyprus. Issues 1, 3, 6, 15 (missing title page), 16, 18, 19-20 (double issue), 21, and 22-23 (double issue) and the title pages of issues 4 and 14.
• Five handwritten drafts for articles for the newspaper "Al HaSaf", with glosses and comments by the editor: "Le'an" (Where To), an article by Yitzchak Epstein (two different drafts, the final version was published in issue 15, 1948); "Koreinu Meirim" (Our Readers Comment), an article by A.M. Vardi'eI (two different drafts); a draft for a crossword puzzle by Meir Switzer (filled-in, with a mimeographed copy without the solutions).
• Twenty-one issues of the newspaper "Shurot" (published by the secret representative of the Haganah in the camps of Cyprus – "Shurot HaMeginim" [The Defenders' Line]). Issues 1-7, 11-15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 29, 35, 48, 50.
• Three issues and a special supplement of the newspaper "MiNeged" published by the "Zionist Youth" Movement in Cyprus. Issues 8, 10 and 11 and the supplement "Shorashim" (Roots) for Tu Bishvat of 1949.
• "Bashevi", a leaflet issued by the Scout Movement in Cyprus, 1949. Two copies.
• And additional items.
A total of 45 items. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
In the collection:
• Nine issues and two title pages of the newspaper "Al HaSaf", a weekly for students and graduates of the Pinhas Rutenberg JDC Seminar in Cyprus. Issues 1, 3, 6, 15 (missing title page), 16, 18, 19-20 (double issue), 21, and 22-23 (double issue) and the title pages of issues 4 and 14.
• Five handwritten drafts for articles for the newspaper "Al HaSaf", with glosses and comments by the editor: "Le'an" (Where To), an article by Yitzchak Epstein (two different drafts, the final version was published in issue 15, 1948); "Koreinu Meirim" (Our Readers Comment), an article by A.M. Vardi'eI (two different drafts); a draft for a crossword puzzle by Meir Switzer (filled-in, with a mimeographed copy without the solutions).
• Twenty-one issues of the newspaper "Shurot" (published by the secret representative of the Haganah in the camps of Cyprus – "Shurot HaMeginim" [The Defenders' Line]). Issues 1-7, 11-15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 29, 35, 48, 50.
• Three issues and a special supplement of the newspaper "MiNeged" published by the "Zionist Youth" Movement in Cyprus. Issues 8, 10 and 11 and the supplement "Shorashim" (Roots) for Tu Bishvat of 1949.
• "Bashevi", a leaflet issued by the Scout Movement in Cyprus, 1949. Two copies.
• And additional items.
A total of 45 items. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $900
Unsold
31 broadsides, leaflets and booklets issued by the Irgun (Etzel). Palestine, ca. 1939-1947.
Collection of printed items documenting the struggle of the Irgun against the British, including: • A broadside from 1939 dealing with a strike of Jewish prisoners at the detention camp of Tzrifin. • Two booklets issued by the Irgun (1944). • Broadsides and leaflets with announcements about operations of the Irgun. • Two issues of the "Herut" journal. • Broadsides issued by "Kol Zion HaLochement" (The Voice of Fighting Zion), the underground radio station of the Irgun. • Broadside marking the sixth anniversary of Ze'ev Jabotinsky's death (the 29th of Tamuz – 1946). • Broadside in memory of "Olei Hagardom" Dov Gruner, Dov Rosenbaum, Mordechai Elkoshi and Eliezer Kashani. • Broadside titled "Let us Ask the People" (Hebrew) with a suggestion to conduct a referendum regarding the question "Do you support or object to a war, political, military and economic, to liberate the homeland from the burden of foreigners and establish our free, democratic and independent country". • Additional items.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Collection of printed items documenting the struggle of the Irgun against the British, including: • A broadside from 1939 dealing with a strike of Jewish prisoners at the detention camp of Tzrifin. • Two booklets issued by the Irgun (1944). • Broadsides and leaflets with announcements about operations of the Irgun. • Two issues of the "Herut" journal. • Broadsides issued by "Kol Zion HaLochement" (The Voice of Fighting Zion), the underground radio station of the Irgun. • Broadside marking the sixth anniversary of Ze'ev Jabotinsky's death (the 29th of Tamuz – 1946). • Broadside in memory of "Olei Hagardom" Dov Gruner, Dov Rosenbaum, Mordechai Elkoshi and Eliezer Kashani. • Broadside titled "Let us Ask the People" (Hebrew) with a suggestion to conduct a referendum regarding the question "Do you support or object to a war, political, military and economic, to liberate the homeland from the burden of foreigners and establish our free, democratic and independent country". • Additional items.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
Fourteen broadsides, booklets and paper items issued by the Irgun (Etzel) and the Lehi (most of them by the Irgun). Palestine (one item from Asmara), ca. late 1930s to late 1940s.
• Eight broadsides and posters issued by the Irgun: a broadside from Tamuz 1946, calling to renew the struggle against the British and establish Jewish governmental institutions under the British government; "Stop", an illustrated broadside from Cheshvan 1947 – caricature of the blindfolded David Ben-Gurion leading a passenger cart into the abyss; "To Cain's sons who call themselves 'Loyal to the Yishuv'" – a sharp broadside from Nissan 1947, threatening with a civil war in case of a second Saison; two early broadsides (dated with stamps, 1938), referring to the handing over of Jews to the British and to members of the underground organizations who were executed (the broadsides are not signed, however their content indicate that they were most probably issued by the Irgun); and more.
• Three booklets: "Warrior Leadership for a Warrior Nation (member of the Lehi to a member of the Haganah)", Adar 1948; "The Herut Movement (founded by the Irgun), Its Foundations and Principles", Sivan 1948; "Aims and Methods", a booklet issued by the Irgun, date of printing not indicated, containing English information about its goals (possibly, meant to be distributed among British soldiers).
• "In the Exile of Asmara, detention camp, Eritrea". April 7, 1946. Issue no. 134. A single handwritten leaf, in newspaper format – a review of the capture of illegal immigrant ships, the food shortage in the camp, an announcement about the arrival of Matzahs for Passover, news from Palestine and other subjects. Written on verso of a form used by the Italian army.
• And more.
14 items. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
• Eight broadsides and posters issued by the Irgun: a broadside from Tamuz 1946, calling to renew the struggle against the British and establish Jewish governmental institutions under the British government; "Stop", an illustrated broadside from Cheshvan 1947 – caricature of the blindfolded David Ben-Gurion leading a passenger cart into the abyss; "To Cain's sons who call themselves 'Loyal to the Yishuv'" – a sharp broadside from Nissan 1947, threatening with a civil war in case of a second Saison; two early broadsides (dated with stamps, 1938), referring to the handing over of Jews to the British and to members of the underground organizations who were executed (the broadsides are not signed, however their content indicate that they were most probably issued by the Irgun); and more.
• Three booklets: "Warrior Leadership for a Warrior Nation (member of the Lehi to a member of the Haganah)", Adar 1948; "The Herut Movement (founded by the Irgun), Its Foundations and Principles", Sivan 1948; "Aims and Methods", a booklet issued by the Irgun, date of printing not indicated, containing English information about its goals (possibly, meant to be distributed among British soldiers).
• "In the Exile of Asmara, detention camp, Eritrea". April 7, 1946. Issue no. 134. A single handwritten leaf, in newspaper format – a review of the capture of illegal immigrant ships, the food shortage in the camp, an announcement about the arrival of Matzahs for Passover, news from Palestine and other subjects. Written on verso of a form used by the Italian army.
• And more.
14 items. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $600
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A chiseled stone ashtray and cigarette holder from the detention camp in the Ayalon Valley (Latrun). Latrun, Palestine, 1946.
An ashtray and a cigarette holder cut into a stone, decorated with a pair of chained hands alongside the Hebrew inscription "Latrun 22.VIII.1946, to Shifra from Yosef".
During the late 1930s, the British established a network of detention camps in the area of Latrun, which at first served mainly for imprisoning citizens of enemy countries, civilian war prisoners and Arabs arrested during the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine. In 1942, the British started to use the Latrun camp to imprison members of the underground organizations – at first, members of the Lehi and the Irgun, and later also members of the Haganah, Revisionist Party activists and Jewish soldiers who were released from the British Army yet due to their military past were constant suspects in the eyes of the British of participating in underground warfare. In the summer of 1946, after the "Black Sabbath", the camp reached its full capacity – 600 prisoners, including leaders of the Yishuv who held positions in its official institutions: Moshe Sharet, Dov Yosef, David Remez, Yitzchak Greenbaum, Rabbi Y.L. Fishman-Maimon, and others. In August 1947, after the Sergeants affair and the Exodus affair, several mayors of Jewish cities were imprisoned in the camp, among them Israel Rokach and Avraham Krinitzi. The camp served as a detention camp until February 1948, when the British transferred its prisoners to the Atlit camp. During the time it served as a detention camp for members of the underground organizations, several hundreds of them were exiled to internment camps in Africa.
The prisoners of the camp organized lessons and sports activities; they busied themselves with handcraft, put on shows and even operated a coffee shop. The authorities of the camp permitted these activities believing they might prevent the prisoners from planning their escape or a rebellion.
Approx. 16X20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes. Traces of glue on the base of the stand.
Literature: The Detention Camps in Latrun during the British Mandate (Hebrew), by Tal Misgav. In Alei-Zayit VeCherev, volume 9. Jerusalem: Carmel, 2009. pp. 158-185.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
An ashtray and a cigarette holder cut into a stone, decorated with a pair of chained hands alongside the Hebrew inscription "Latrun 22.VIII.1946, to Shifra from Yosef".
During the late 1930s, the British established a network of detention camps in the area of Latrun, which at first served mainly for imprisoning citizens of enemy countries, civilian war prisoners and Arabs arrested during the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine. In 1942, the British started to use the Latrun camp to imprison members of the underground organizations – at first, members of the Lehi and the Irgun, and later also members of the Haganah, Revisionist Party activists and Jewish soldiers who were released from the British Army yet due to their military past were constant suspects in the eyes of the British of participating in underground warfare. In the summer of 1946, after the "Black Sabbath", the camp reached its full capacity – 600 prisoners, including leaders of the Yishuv who held positions in its official institutions: Moshe Sharet, Dov Yosef, David Remez, Yitzchak Greenbaum, Rabbi Y.L. Fishman-Maimon, and others. In August 1947, after the Sergeants affair and the Exodus affair, several mayors of Jewish cities were imprisoned in the camp, among them Israel Rokach and Avraham Krinitzi. The camp served as a detention camp until February 1948, when the British transferred its prisoners to the Atlit camp. During the time it served as a detention camp for members of the underground organizations, several hundreds of them were exiled to internment camps in Africa.
The prisoners of the camp organized lessons and sports activities; they busied themselves with handcraft, put on shows and even operated a coffee shop. The authorities of the camp permitted these activities believing they might prevent the prisoners from planning their escape or a rebellion.
Approx. 16X20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes. Traces of glue on the base of the stand.
Literature: The Detention Camps in Latrun during the British Mandate (Hebrew), by Tal Misgav. In Alei-Zayit VeCherev, volume 9. Jerusalem: Carmel, 2009. pp. 158-185.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $500
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A wooden relief of Moses carrying the Tablets of the Law, carved by a prisoner in the Gilgil detention camp in Kenya. [Gilgil], Kenya, 1948.
The relief, a well-executed artwork, depicts Moses standing on the mountain, one hand raised skywards and the other embracing the Tablets of the Law. Fixed on a wooden base, on which a Hebrew dedication is engraved: "To father, with love, from Mordechai. Kenya – 5708 [1948]".
In 1944, in light of the radicalization of the Irgun and Lehi activity and the repeated escapes from the detention camps in Palestine, the British decided to move their prisoners to camps in Africa, where they could not be assimilated into a sympathetic population. At first, 251 prisoners were sent to the Sembel camp in Eritrea in a secret and sudden military operation; with time, the British moved additional prisoners to the camps in Africa, their total number eventually reaching 439 people. From Sembel the prisoners were moved to the Carthage camp in Sudan, then to the Gilgil camp in Kenya. The conditions in these camps were harsher than those in the detention camps in Palestine – the prisoners suffered from lack of equipment and clothes, and from intolerable heat. The prisoners organized cultural and social activities in the camps, including lectures and classes, handicraft workshops and exhibitions displaying the works, sports activities and more. During the four years the camps had existed, small groups of prisoners tried to escape time and again, and some of them even succeeded in leaving Africa.
Approx. 13X12 cm; in a 20X23 cm frame. Unexamined out of the frame. Minor scratches. Additional rectangular wooden base beneath the base of the relief.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
The relief, a well-executed artwork, depicts Moses standing on the mountain, one hand raised skywards and the other embracing the Tablets of the Law. Fixed on a wooden base, on which a Hebrew dedication is engraved: "To father, with love, from Mordechai. Kenya – 5708 [1948]".
In 1944, in light of the radicalization of the Irgun and Lehi activity and the repeated escapes from the detention camps in Palestine, the British decided to move their prisoners to camps in Africa, where they could not be assimilated into a sympathetic population. At first, 251 prisoners were sent to the Sembel camp in Eritrea in a secret and sudden military operation; with time, the British moved additional prisoners to the camps in Africa, their total number eventually reaching 439 people. From Sembel the prisoners were moved to the Carthage camp in Sudan, then to the Gilgil camp in Kenya. The conditions in these camps were harsher than those in the detention camps in Palestine – the prisoners suffered from lack of equipment and clothes, and from intolerable heat. The prisoners organized cultural and social activities in the camps, including lectures and classes, handicraft workshops and exhibitions displaying the works, sports activities and more. During the four years the camps had existed, small groups of prisoners tried to escape time and again, and some of them even succeeded in leaving Africa.
Approx. 13X12 cm; in a 20X23 cm frame. Unexamined out of the frame. Minor scratches. Additional rectangular wooden base beneath the base of the relief.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
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