"Protocol of the Negotiations, Proceedings, and Resolutions discussed and executed at the Assembly of Council Leaders of Hovevei Zion in the City of Katowice in the Days of the Conference from the 18th to the 23rd of Marheshvan." [Katowice?], the year "He saves those who are crushed in spirit" (In Hebrew, a numerological chronogram equivalent to Hebrew year 5645), [1884?]. First edition, for participants of the conference (bottom line of title page indicates: "Printed as a Manuscript"). Hebrew. Booklet documenting the proceedings of the Katowice Conference of "Hovevei Zion" and detailing the five meetings held by its Zionist leaders, November 6-11, 1884. The conference was attended by 36 delegates, among them some of the most prominent figures in the Zionist movement (including Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever, Yehuda Leib Pinsker, Ahad Ha'am, David Gordon, and others), whose goal was to adopt a course of action to reestablish organized Jewish settlement in Palestine. Since Zionist activity was ruled illegal in Russia, the true mission of the conference was kept secret, and it was billed as a conference celebrating Moses Montefiore's 100th birthday; thus, in the Hebrew-language newspaper "HaMelitz" – whose chief editor, Aleksander Zederbaum, was among the conference participants – the gathering was referred to as "an Assembly of Those Honoring Moses." The opening speech by conference chairman Yehuda Leib Pinsker – in which he stresses the necessity for Jews to return to cultivate their own soil – appears in full at the beginning of the booklet: let us today take up the plow and spade instead of the measuring tape and scales and let us become once more what we had been before we fell into the discredit of other nations […] Let us return to our old mother, our land, which we have awaited with great desire" (Julius H. Schoeps, Pioneers of Zionism: Hess, Pinsker, Berlin-Boston: de Gruyter, 2013, p. 44). This edition was presumably printed in a few dozen copies only and distributed to the participants of the conference (an additional German edition was published, in which the nationalistic and Zionist parts of Pinsker's speech were omitted). In 1920, a second edition of the booklet was published by the writer Leibl Toybsh (Vienna: Adria Press); there, in the preface, it was pointed out that " this protocol was printed at the time ‘as a Manuscript' in a limited number of copies, [specifically] a number matching the number of participants at the assembly and the [number of] members of the council elected then in Katowice. This protocol is therefore rare, and it cannot be obtained in the libraries, nor do the Zionist bibliographers know of it nor do they mention it ." In the present copy, an ownership stamp appears on the front flyleaf: "A. Б. РЕЙНЕСЪ, ЛИДА" ("A.B. Reines, Lida") – most probably the stamp of Avraham Ber Reines, son of Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines. Rabbi Reines, founder of the "HaMizrachi" religious Zionist movement, was personally invited to attend the conference, but was not permitted to cross the border to get to Katowice because he was not in possession of a passport. In all likelihood, the present booklet was delivered to him. [1] printed front cover, 40 pp., approx. 15.5 cm. Back cover missing. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears, incuding open tears, to edges (not affecting text). Brittle paper. Front cover partly detached. Bound with card binding, with endpapers (old). Binding somewhat loose, with minor tears and blemishes. Two copies only in OCLC.

Two postcards from the third Zionist congress – the official postcard of the congress and an unofficial postcard with a photograph of the Basel casino, which were sent by Leo Motzkin to his fiancée Paula (Paulina) Rosenblum. Handwritten by Motzkin and signed "Leo". Basel and Berlin, 1899. Russian. 1. Official congress postcard, sent from Basel to Druskininkai (nowadays in Lithuania) on the second day of the congress (16.8.1899). 2. Unofficial postcard with a photograph of the Basel casino, sent from Berlin to Druskininkai on 26.8.1899. Motzkin writes: "My dear! do you remember the mindset a year ago? And the Jewish people rising for the first time before your eyes…". 9X14 cm. Good condition. Creases and minor stains.

Approx. 30 donation certificates, letters, receipts, informational brochures, handbills and other propaganda items issued by Keren Hayesod. Palestine, London, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere, 1920s to 1950s. Among the items: • Five "Receipt-Certificates" for a donation to Keren Hayesod (two of them designed by Meir Gur-Arieh). 1920s and 1930s. • Manifests and handbills detailing the assistance given by Keren Hayesod to various goals, its planned activities and the financial resources needed to carry them out. 1920s. • Reports of a delegation of Keren Hayesod to Syria. 1928. • Typewritten letter by Ze'ev Jabotinsky in which he declines to give a speech in a meeting of Keren Hayesod. 1928. • Booklets and photograph booklets documenting the activity of Keren Hayesod. 1931 to 1949. • And more. Keren Hayesod was established in London in 1920 as a fundraising arm of the Zionist Movement, to provide the resources needed for the Jewish people to establish a national home in Palestine. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

39 calendars distributed by the Jewish National Fund in Italy, for the years 1928-9 to 1992-3 (non-consecutive). Rome, Florence and Milano. Italian and some Hebrew. The calendars are bound in color covers with the logo of the JNF and contain small maps, pictures of new settlements in Israel as well as charts and diagrams depicting the development of the country. Size and condition vary. Two copies on one calendar (one missing cover). Enclosed: • calendar for 1941-2 published by the JNF in Switzerland. • Calendar for 1946-7 published by the JNF in France. • A Teacher's Planner for 1984-5 published by "The Teachers' Movement for the JNF", Jerusalem.