Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics
December 21, 2021
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Working Man with a Hammer, photograph by Helmar Lerski (1871-1956).
24X30 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes (mostly to edges and verso). Minor silvering to edges. Captioned in pencil on verso: "Helmar Lerski".
Helmar Lerski (1871-1956), cinematographer, photographer and theater actor; one of the most important photographers of pre-state Israel. Lerski grew up in Zurich. His parents were Jewish immigrants of Polish origin. In 1893 he immigrated to the United States, where he joined a theater group with which he toured the cities of the Unites States and Europe – Chicago, New York, Berlin, Zurich and elsewhere – for some twenty years. In 1910, after leaving the theater, Lerski opened a photography studio in Milwaukee. He started developing a new technique of photography with mirrors; his unique, dramatic play of light and shadow, became the hallmark of his work. In 1915 he returned to Europe, settling in Berlin, where he became involved in filmmaking (he was the cameraman on various films, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis, released in 1927). In the early 1930s, he immigrated to Palestine. His apartment in Tel-Aviv soon became a regular meeting place for the city's photographers, and in 1940 he was elected honorary president of the Palestine Professional Photographers Association (PPPA). In Palestine Lerski created several important series of expressionist photographs, using his unique technique: portraits of Jewish soldiers and of pioneers at work, studies of workers' hands, and more. He also directed the films "Avodah" ("Work", 1935), "Mangina Ivrit" ("Hebrew Melody", 1935), "Yaldei HaShemesh" ("Children of the Sun", 1939) and "Adamah" ("The Land", 1947).
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $1,125
Including buyer's premium
Portrait of a Yemenite Woman, photograph by Helmar Lerski (1871-1956). Signed on the image.
29X21 cm. Good condition. Minor creases and tears to margins. Stains and traces of mounting to verso. Captioned on verso: "Helmar Lerski IV" (in pencil); "Copyright paid" (in pen).
Helmar Lerski (1871-1956), cinematographer, photographer and theater actor; one of the most important photographers of pre-state Israel. Lerski grew up in Zurich. His parents were Jewish immigrants of Polish origin. In 1893 he immigrated to the United States, where he joined a theater group with which he toured the cities of the Unites States and Europe – Chicago, New York, Berlin, Zurich and elsewhere – for some twenty years. In 1910, after leaving the theater, Lerski opened a photography studio in Milwaukee. He started developing a new technique of photography with mirrors; his unique, dramatic play of light and shadow, became the hallmark of his work. In 1915 he returned to Europe, settling in Berlin, where he became involved in filmmaking (he was the cameraman on various films, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis, released in 1927). In the early 1930s, he immigrated to Palestine. His apartment in Tel-Aviv soon became a regular meeting place for the city's photographers, and in 1940 he was elected honorary president of the Palestine Professional Photographers Association (PPPA). In Palestine Lerski created several important series of expressionist photographs, using his unique technique: portraits of Jewish soldiers and of pioneers at work, studies of workers' hands, and more. He also directed the films "Avodah" ("Work", 1935), "Mangina Ivrit" ("Hebrew Melody", 1935), "Yaldei HaShemesh" ("Children of the Sun", 1939) and "Adamah" ("The Land", 1947).
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
Portrait of a Man, photograph by Helmar Lerski (1871-1956).
29X23 cm. Good condition. Stains and traces of mounting to verso. Captioned on
verso: "Helmar Lerski XII" (in pencil); "Copyright paid" (in pen).
Helmar Lerski (1871-1956), cinematographer, photographer and theater actor; one of the most important photographers of pre-state Israel. Lerski grew up in Zurich. His parents were Jewish immigrants of Polish origin. In 1893 he immigrated to the United States, where he joined a theater group with which he toured the cities of the Unites States and Europe – Chicago, New York, Berlin, Zurich and elsewhere – for some twenty years. In 1910, after leaving the theater, Lerski opened a photography studio in Milwaukee. He started developing a new technique of photography with mirrors; his unique, dramatic play of light and shadow, became the hallmark of his work. In 1915 he returned to Europe, settling in Berlin, where he became involved in filmmaking (he was the cameraman on various films, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis, released in 1927). In the early 1930s, he immigrated to Palestine. His apartment in Tel-Aviv soon became a regular meeting place for the city's photographers, and in 1940 he was elected honorary president of the Palestine Professional Photographers Association (PPPA). In Palestine Lerski created several important series of expressionist photographs, using his unique technique: portraits of Jewish soldiers and of pioneers at work, studies of workers' hands, and more. He also directed the films "Avodah" ("Work", 1935), "Mangina Ivrit" ("Hebrew Melody", 1935), "Yaldei HaShemesh" ("Children of the Sun", 1939) and "Adamah" ("The Land", 1947).
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![Jewish Soldier, photograph by Helmar Lerski (1871-1956). [1942].
29X23.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to edges.](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale84-public/340.jpg "Jewish Soldier – Photograph by Helmar Lerski")
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
Jewish Soldier, photograph by Helmar Lerski (1871-1956). [1942].
29X23.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to edges. Stains and traces of mounting to verso. Captioned in pencil on verso: "Judischer Soldat aus Palastina, 1942".
Helmar Lerski (1871-1956), cinematographer, photographer and theater actor; one of the most important photographers of pre-state Israel. Lerski grew up in Zurich. His parents were Jewish immigrants of Polish origin. In 1893 he immigrated to the United States, where he joined a theater group with which he toured the cities of the Unites States and Europe – Chicago, New York, Berlin, Zurich and elsewhere – for some twenty years. In 1910, after leaving the theater, Lerski opened a photography studio in Milwaukee. He started developing a new technique of photography with mirrors; his unique, dramatic play of light and shadow, became the hallmark of his work. In 1915 he returned to Europe, settling in Berlin, where he became involved in filmmaking (he was the cameraman on various films, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis, released in 1927). In the early 1930s, he immigrated to Palestine. His apartment in Tel-Aviv soon became a regular meeting place for the city's photographers, and in 1940 he was elected honorary president of the Palestine Professional Photographers Association (PPPA). In Palestine Lerski created several important series of expressionist photographs, using his unique technique: portraits of Jewish soldiers and of pioneers at work, studies of workers' hands, and more. He also directed the films "Avodah" ("Work", 1935), "Mangina Ivrit" ("Hebrew Melody", 1935), "Yaldei HaShemesh" ("Children of the Sun", 1939) and "Adamah" ("The Land", 1947).
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Postcards, Souvenirs of Palestine, Photography
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![Six photographs by Israeli photographers. Various places in Palestine/Israel, [ca. 1930s to 1950s].
Six photographs:](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale84-public/341_1.jpg "Five Photographs of Views and Figures in Palestine – Walter Zadek, Mos")
![Six photographs by Israeli photographers. Various places in Palestine/Israel, [ca. 1930s to 1950s].
Six photographs:](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale84-public/341_2.jpg "Five Photographs of Views and Figures in Palestine – Walter Zadek, Mos")
![Six photographs by Israeli photographers. Various places in Palestine/Israel, [ca. 1930s to 1950s].
Six photographs:](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale84-public/341_3.jpg "Five Photographs of Views and Figures in Palestine – Walter Zadek, Mos")
Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Six photographs by Israeli photographers. Various places in Palestine/Israel, [ca. 1930s to 1950s].
Six photographs: • A young woman picking olives. Stamped on verso with the stamp of photographer Walter Zadek. • Children in Kibbutz Ramat David. Stamped on verso with the stamp of photographer Avraham Malavsky ("A. Malavsky, Jerusalem"). • Two sailors on a sailboat (on the bank of the Kishon river?). Stamped on verso with the stamp of photographer Moshe Schwarz ("Dr. M. Schwarz"). • A mother and a baby. Stamped on verso with the stamp of photographer Moshe Schwarz. • ZIM ship "Israel". Stamped on verso with two stamps of "Photo Sadeh" (Chanan Sadeh). • Photograph of a fruit bowl. Stamped on verso with the stamp of photographer Hella Fernbach.
Approx. 24X30 cm. Condition varies. Overall good to good-fair condition. Creases. Blemishes (mostly to edges). Stains and notations on verso. Traces of mounting and tape to verso of one photograph.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $100
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Jerusalem – Photo Etchings of the Old City, by Jacob Benor-Kalter. Published in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the State of Israel, [Jerusalem], 1958.
Hebrew and English. Limited edition of 100 copies; the present copy signed and inscribed by Benor-Kalter.
The album "Jerusalem – Photo Etchings of the Old City", depicting works of the photographer Jacob Benor-Kalter was first published in 1925. This is a renewed edition published in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the State of Israel – "De luxe edition … printed by hand on hand-made paper". The album contains 22 reproductions of photo-etchings documenting Jerusalem and its surroundings in the first half of the 1920s: the view of the city from Mount Scopus, the Temple Mount, the alleys of the city and its residents, and more. The album is signed by Benor-Kalter on the colophon page. Inscribed and signed by Benor-Kalter on the front endpaper (inscription dated 1958).
[4], 22 ff., 30 cm. The reproductions are tipped in. Good condition. Stains, mainly to endpapers. Fine binding, slightly stained.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Handmade album, apparently assembled in order to offer a potential layout for a promotional booklet, to be issued by the State of Israel in the early years of the state – Photographs of new immigrants in "ma'abarot" (transit camps) and absorption camps, most or all by Zoltan Kluger; with handwritten captions. [Israel, early 1950s]. English and some Hebrew.
On the front page is a photograph showing a woman holding a baby at the entrance to a tent. At the top is the figure "242671," representing the number of homeless immigrants in Israel. The following pages have photographs featuring immigrants in wooden huts, tents, and makeshift corrugated metal shacks. At the end are aerial photographs of new neighborhoods being established throughout the country. Some pages are captioned with handwritten explanatory texts and Zionist slogans, and other pages have lined sections for text to be filled in. Some of the photos are superimposed over others, and can be lifted (apparently in an attempt to suggest alternative photo arrangements). Photographs with visible backs are marked on the back with the inked stamp of the renowned Israeli photographer Zoltan Kluger.
Album: [8] ff., 33 cm. 39 photographs: approx. 33X24 – 7.5X6.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes to leaves. Minor abrasions and blemishes to photographs (mostly at edges).
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $150
Unsold
Three calendars, edited by Yosef Galezer, for the years 1938-9, 1939-40, 1941-2. With photographs of Palestine.
Three calendars, by different publishers, with photographs and photomontages made by some of the most prominent Palestine photographers in the first half of the 20th century, including: Zoltan Kluger, Alfons Himmelreich, Kurt Triest, Rudi Weissenstein, Itzhak Kalter, Yaakov Rosner, Alexander Ganan, Tim Gidal, Liselotte Grschebina, Helmar Lerski, and others. The photographs depict landscapes and various places in Palestine, pioneers, workers, farmers, soldiers, artisans, and more; with captions and quotations from traditional Jewish sources.
1. "The Artistic Calendar 'Palestine'" (Hebrew), for the Hebrew year 5699 [1938-1939]. Tel Aviv: The Palestine Publishing Co. Ltd., [1938]. [62] pp. 2. "The Photographic Calendar 'Palestine'" (Hebrew), issued by Keren HaYesod, for the Hebrew year 5700 [1939-1940]. Tel Aviv: The Palestine Publishing Co. Ltd., [1939]. With message of thanks by the Keren HaYesod directorate to its supporters. [62] pp. 3. "Eretz Israel", Picture Calendar, 5702 [1941-1942]. Tel Aviv: Lion the Printer, 1941. [31] pp.
Three Calendars, approx. 22-23 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and minor creases. Minor tears to wrappers, some reinforced with tape. Pen notations to one calendar.
Yosef Galezer (1890-1945) immigrated to Palestine before WWI, became active in the Jewish National Fund, and served as Arthur Ruppin's secretary. Screenwriter and producer, he was among the pioneers of cinema in Eretz Israel. Working alongside Ya'acov Ben-Dov, "Father of the Hebrew Film", Galezer offered him significant help in creating his first films; in 1926 he began producing propaganda films and other visual materials for Keren HaYesod.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $150
Unsold
Eight photographs depicting life in Palestine during the British Mandate and the early years of the State of Israel [Tel Aviv and various other places]. Photographs show: a traffic policeman in Magen David square in Tel Aviv; two boys next to a newsstand during the British Mandate era (two copies); façade of a Bauhaus style office building; tennis court in a newly built neighborhood, with unpaved roads and buildings under construction; and more. Four of the photographs are stamped on verso with the photographers' stamp – "Rudolf Jonas, Jerusalem".
Rudolf Jonas (1898-1972) studied law in Berlin and Marburg, where he became acquainted with the Zionist Movement, and under its influence visited Palestine in the middle of the 1920s, documenting it with his camera. In 1933, he immigrated to Palestine, settling in Jerusalem, where he worked as an amateur photographer on behalf of the Keren HaYesod. After the War of Independence, he moved to Haifa, there, he continued working as a photographer.
Approx. 13X18 cm. Some photographs printed on thick paper. Good condition. Minor creases to margins. Minor stains (mostly on verso). Handwritten notations on verso of one photograph.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Provisional share certificate of the "Hitachdut" publishing house, founded by the World Federation of Hapoel Hatza'ir and Tze'irei Zion. Warsaw-Jaffa-Vienna, [1920s?].
Hand-signed by L. [Lipman] Levinson on behalf of the provisional management, and ink-stamped "Hitachdut Publishing House, Warsaw-Jaffa-Vienna" (Hebrew). The goals of the "Hitachdut" publishing house included: "To spread in the Diaspora the idea of building a working society in Palestine, […] to help clarify and determine the ideological foundations of the Hitachdut Movement and to highlight the issues currently of interest to the World Labor Movement, […] to teach the Hebrew language to the working members of the Diaspora […]" (Hebrew; from the Hapoel Hatza'ir weekly, January 20, 1920).
15.5X28.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Small tears to edges. Small hole to center.
Provenance: Estate of Ruth Dayan.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $150
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Share certificate issued by the Jewish Public Bank AG, Danzig. G. Kahan & Co. Press, Danzig, 1935. German.
Share certificate in the sum of 100 Danzig Gulden, with ten dividend coupons, and a voucher for additional dividend coupons. Inked stamp on bottom, with printed signatures of the representative of the company's supervisory committee, and the chairman of the board. The certificate is adorned with a fine ornamental frame.
The Jewish Public Bank was established in the Free City of Danzig in 1923, and operated until 1939. During the second half of the 1930s, the Nazi party became the largest political party in the free city, which was populated by a majority of ethnic Germans; in 1938 the German Nuremberg Laws were enacted, aimed against the city's Jewish population. In September 1939, following the Nazi occupation of Poland, the city was annexed by the Third Reich.
42X29.5 cm. Good condition.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $250
Unsold
"Israel – 25 Years of Independence" – souvenir sheet of the Israel Postal Company depicting the complete Scroll of Independence. Issued for Israel's 25th Independence Day, 1973. Hand-signed by David Ben-Gurion.
Souvenir sheet designed by Moshe Amar, with The Scroll of Independence stamp and the inscription "25 years of Independence". The sheet is hand-signed by David Ben-Gurion (Ben-Gurion died on December 1, 1973, several months after the issuing of this sheet).
6.5X14.5 cm. Very good condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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