Sixteen postcards presenting photographs and paintings portraying Yemenite Jews in Yemen and in Palestine. Orient- Verlag Press for the "Hilfskomitee für die yemenitischen Juden" [Aid Committee for Yemenite Jews], Berlin, [ca. 1920s].
Collection of postcards printed for the "Aid Committee for Yemenite Jews" – an organization founded in Berlin on the eve of World War I and active also afterwards, with the aim of assisting Yemenite Jews to settle in Palestine.
Twelve postcards show photographs of Yemenite Jews and their places of residence (especially the city of Sana'a) taken by the Jewish-German Orientalist and photographer Hermann Burchardt. Burchardt travelled throughout the Orient, visited Yemen three times between 1901 and 1909, and was murdered on his last visit to the country.
The rest of the postcards show photographs of Yemenite Jews in Palestine and a portrait of a Yemenite Jew by Yaakov Stark.
Printed on the back of the postcards is a short text (in German) describing the condition of the persecuted Jews of Yemen and appealing to German Jews to donate funds to aid them.
9X14 cm. Good condition. Stains and creases. Tears and minor blemishes to margins of some postcards. Small pieces are cut out from the margins of two postcards.

The City of Our Lord, Twelve Photographs of Jerusalem. London: Richard Griffin and Co., 1861. English.
Twelve early photographs (albumen prints) of Jerusalem and its vicinity, including photographs of the Dome of the Rock, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Absalom's Pillar, the Tomb of Zechariah and the Tomb of Benei Hezir, Tomb of the Virgin Mary and more. The photographs are mounted on paper plates and are accompanied by explanatory leaves with information about the various sites.
The photographs were taken by British physician John Anthony during his visit to Palestine in 1857. Four of the photographs are signed in the plate.
24 pp. + [12] photographs mounted on plates, 37 cm. Photographs: 13X16 cm to 17X21.5 cm. Gilt edges. The photographs are in good condition. Stains and damp damage to two photographs. The explanatory leaves in fair condition. Stains and numerous tears. Tears, stains and blemishes to binding. The front board is detached.
See: Focus East, Early Photography in the Near East (1839-1885), by Nissan N. Perez. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers / Jerusalem: The Domino Press and Israel Museum, 1988. p. 126.

Collection of glass lantern slides of photographs from Palestine taken by the photographic department of the American Colony. Jerusalem. [Late 19th century / first decades of the 20th century].
100 glass lantern slides of photographs from Palestine taken by photographers of the American Colony in Jerusalem. The photographs depict Christian, Jewish and Muslim sacred sites in Jerusalem and its vicinity, including the Western Wall, the Temple Mount, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Via Dolorosa, the Cenacle, Calvary and more; archeological sites; Jewish, Muslim and Christian residents of the city; streets in the old city and in the adjacent neighborhoods; the various old city gates; and many other sites such as the Jordan River, the Dead Sea, Elisha's Spring, Jericho, the Good Samaritan Inn, Bethany, Rachel's Tomb, the Church of the Nativity and the market of Bethlehem, the White Mosque in Ramla, the Jaffa Port, and more.
The slides are mostly black and white, with four colored slides. Paper strips protect the edges of each slide. Each numbered and captioned by hand; some signed in the plate: "American Colony Photographers. Fr. Vester & Co., Jerusalem, Palestine". Placed in a designated wooden box. Handwritten list of all 100 slides mounted on inside lid.
Enclosed with the slides is a booklet: Lecture. Jerusalem and its Vicinity to accompany a selected set of 100 lantern slides made by the photographic department of the American Colony, Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Fr. Vester, American Colony Stores, [the first decades of the 20th century]. The slides and photographs listed in the booklet do not fully correspond.
Slides: 8X8.5 cm. Good condition. Box: 20X38 cm. Height: 9.5 cm. Good condition. Cracks to lid. Booklet: [2], 51, [1] pp (including cover), 17.5 cm. Good condition. Blemishes and small tears. Long tear to back cover, not affecting text.

81 photographs documenting the establishment of residential communities, pioneer work, and people in Palestine. Palestine, 1920s – late 1930s (a few photographs are from the early 1940s).
The collection appears to contain photographs by two different photographers:
· Forty-four photographs, titled by hand on the back (Hebrew), from the 1920s to early 1940s. Including: Kibbutz Yagur near the time of its founding, 1925; the first huts in Kfar Hasidim, 1925; Tel Amal (today Nir David) near the time of its founding, 1937; the establishment of Kibbutz Maoz Haim in 1937; the establishment of Kibbutz Hanita in 1938; children carrying saplings for a Tu bi-Shevat celebration in Kiryat Anavim; women and men studying Torah together in Kvutzat Rodges (Kvutzat Yavne of today); Three panoramas (each consisting of two photographs) – Rosh Pina, Binyamina and Mount Hermon above the Hula Valley; and photographs of Metula, Kfar Giladi, Beit Alfa, Nahalal and other places.
Enclosed: A list (duplicate of the handwritten original) with serial numbers and description of the contents of some of the photographs. The name Meir Greenberg (the photographer?) appears at the top of the list.
Approx. 9X14 – 12X17.5 cm. Condition varies. Overall good condition.
· Thirty-seven photographs, titled and dated on the back (English), from the years 1936-1938. Including: A sentry armed with a rifle guarding a group of bathers near Maoz Haim; the gate of Atlit on the day of its establishment, 1938; laundresses in Kibbutz Degania; a sword-swallower in Tiberias; thatched Arab houses near Yesud HaMa’ala; a passing Arab peddler, with a donkey as pack-animal, in the Batei Warsaw neighborhood in Jerusalem; a Magen David Adom vehicle on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, 1938; and more.
Approx. 11.5X8.5 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.

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, including: 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. Including: 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, including 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 verso by hand. Some of the Israeli Opera photographs are titled on verso by hand and 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 from 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.