Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
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![BeGalut Kenya [In the Exile of Kenya], daily newspaper of the Jewish detainees interned at camp Gilgil (Kenya). Issue no. 357](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/55_1.jpg "\"In the Exile of Kenya\" – Issue of May 14, 1948 – \"Tonight the State o")
![BeGalut Kenya [In the Exile of Kenya], daily newspaper of the Jewish detainees interned at camp Gilgil (Kenya). Issue no. 357](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/55_2.jpg "\"In the Exile of Kenya\" – Issue of May 14, 1948 – \"Tonight the State o")
BeGalut Kenya [In the Exile of Kenya], daily newspaper of the Jewish detainees interned at camp Gilgil (Kenya). Issue no. 357, typewritten, with handwritten corrections and additions (master copy). Camp Gilgil: 14.5.1948. Hebrew.
The issue comprises news on the war being fought in Palestine, which presumably reached the camp the same day: the fall of Gush Etzion, battles in Sha'ar HaGai, the surrender of Jaffa, and more. An article printed in page 2 in larger script reads: "Tonight the State of Israel will be Declared."
The news items in the issue were collected from various available news outlets: Radio London in Arabic, Radio Brazzaville, Radio Paris, Radio New York, the New York Herald Tribune, and others (sources are written before every passage.)
An item at the end of the issue quotes a telegram received from the Zionist Executive Committee in New York. The committee seeks to reassure the internees that the time of their release is near (signed in print by Hadassah activist Judith Epstein, Zionist Revisionist leader Meir Grossman, and American Zionist leader Baruch Zuckerman.)
6 ff. (6 printed pages), unbound. 33.5 cm. Minor stains and creases. Pinholes and minor tears. The end of the telegram on last page is printed on a separate piece of paper, pasted to the bottom of the page.
Enclosed: page 2 of the evening issue, published the same day (14.5.48; printed after the Declaration of Independence took place, ) consisting three news items: the evacuation of British forces from Jerusalem, report on the numbers of Palestinian Arab refugees, and the end of a report on the state of affairs in the war's various fronts (typewritten.)
Issue of May 15, 1948. The front cover features a report on the declaration of independence ceremony, which took place the previous day in Tel Aviv: " It was a simple, almost informal, ceremony of 40 minutes which established the Jewish state of 'Israel'". The article goes on to compare between the modest ceremony in Tel Aviv, and the extravagant ceremony held two years prior in Amman, in similar circumstances. This is followed by reports on one of the participants in the ceremony, Dr. Isidor Schalit, a Zionist leader and Theodor Herzl's secretary, the rapid growth of Jewish immigration to the newly formed state, reactions of the surrounding Arabic countries to the declaration of independence, and fears of Arab invasion. The news section features additional articles about the situation in the country, including a report on an aerial attack on Tel Aviv. The culture section features a positive review of HaBima's theater productions on Broadway.
The Christian Science Monitor was founded in Boston in 1908, and is still being published today. Despite its association with the Church of Christian Science, its reports are considered objective and reliable, and some of its reporters won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Journalism.
17, [1] pp., 57 cm. Good condition. Leaves detached. Minor tears, including marginal open tears. Thin strips of paper pasted for reinforcement to front page and along spine (between first and last page). Filing holes. Fold lines.
Issue of the Jewish daily newspaper Der Tog. The front page features reports on Ben-Gurion's declaration of independence, which took place the day before in Tel Aviv, and on the cancellation of the British White Paper, American president Truman's recognition of the newly established country, and efforts to achieve support for the country in the UN. With a picture of the Israeli flag, and portraits of Herzl, Truman and Ben-Gurion.
Der Tog – a secular daily newspaper in Yiddish – was published between 1914 and 1971. The newspaper operated independently of political affiliation, aiming to maintain high journalistic standards, and offer its readership a rich variety of cultural and literary sections. Among its writers were Shmuel Niger, David Pinski and Chaim Zhitlowsky.
[4] pp. (one sheet folded in two, ) 58 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Fold lines and creases. Closed and open tears to margins and along fold lines, with minor damage to text. Framed.
![Issue of "HaMashkif" [The Observer] – Organ of the Revisionist Zionist Party, HaTzohar, announcing the establishmen](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/58.jpg "\"The State of Israel has Been Established\" – Issue of HaMashkif, Annou")
The headline reads: "The State of Israel has Been Established;" beneath it are photographic portraits of Theodor Herzl and Ze'ev Jabotinsky. The subheading celebrates the end of "1878 years of enslavement and exile;" the text of the declaration of independence speech, held the day before by the Irgun's commander, Menachem Begin, is printed in the center of the page.
The entire issue is dedicated to the war raging throughout the country, the invasion of the Arab armies, and territorial gains made by the Jewish forces, with an emphasis on the, alleged, central role played by Irgun's forces in the struggle for independence.
4 pp., 55 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Fold lines. Minor tears to margins and along fold lines.
![24 issues of the newspaper "Unzer Ziel" [Our Aim], newspaper of the Austrian chapter of the Brit HaTzionim HaRevizi](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/59_1.jpg "\"Unzer Ziel\" – Bound Volume of Issues – Organ of \"Hatzohar\" in Austria")
![24 issues of the newspaper "Unzer Ziel" [Our Aim], newspaper of the Austrian chapter of the Brit HaTzionim HaRevizi](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/59_2.jpg "\"Unzer Ziel\" – Bound Volume of Issues – Organ of \"Hatzohar\" in Austria")
Volume of bound issues of the second year of publication of "Unzer Ziel" (last year of publication), published by the Zionist Revisionist movement, for holocaust survivors ("Sh'erit HaPletah") in Austria. Issues accompanied by pictures and illustrations (Olei HaGardom, Irgun fighters in the 1948 war, Warsaw ghetto, and more.)
Issue no. 13 (May 19, 1948) features a detailed account of the declaration of independence of the State of Israel.
Hardcover, with label pasted onto front board – the name of the newspaper and its logo, which was designed to resemble the symbol of the Irgun, a map of Greater Israel, and years of publication – 1947-1949.
24 issues bound together (most comprise six pages). One leaf (in issue no. 17) bound out of sequence. Approx. 45 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor creases. Marginal tears to some leaves (mostly minor; some restored tears). Two leaves detached. Cover worn, with marginal abrasions.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
The photograph shows Faisal seated on a sofa, reading a newspaper. Next to him is Sheikh Ibrahim Sulayman. In the foreground is an issue of a daily newspaper, the "New York World-Telegram, " laid down on a chair. The main headline of the "World-Telegram" reads "Jewish Nation Proclaimed." The picture was taken in Flushing Meadows Park in the Borough of Queens, New York City, next to the Flushing Meadow arena, a converted skating rink where the United Nations General Assembly was convening at the time.
The back of the photograph bears the inked stamp of the "INP – International News Photos" news agency, and a description of the photo and its place and date, all printed in French.
Throughout his lengthy tenure as foreign minister, from 1930 to 1960, Faisal remained a steadfast and outspoken opponent of Zionism. He acted tirelessly to formulate a unified Arab position on the subject, and to give prominence to this unified Arab stance on the international and geopolitical stage.
Approx. 21.5X17 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes to edges. Minute holes to top.
Four-page pamphlet. The first page features a lengthy article, accusing Israel Kastner of cooperating with Nazi authorities in preparing the ground for the extermination of Hungarian Jewry, and helping a Nazi war criminal escape persecution (opens with the lines: "the smell of a cadaver stings my nostrils! This'll be a prime funeral! Dr. Rudolf Kastner must be eliminated!"). The pamphlet "Letters to My Friends in the Mizrachi" was self-published by Malchiel Gruenwald, and circulated in no more than a few hundred copies (a postmark and a note with the recipient's name are pasted to the margins; name of recipient erased). Issue No. 17 reached the Attorney General of Israel, Haim Cohn. Following Cohn's advice, Kastner filed a lawsuit against Gruenwald, accusing him of slander. The process that followed soon became one of the best-known trials in Israel’s history – the "Kastner trial".
[2] ff. (four printed pages), approx. 34.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Minor stains, creases and horizontal fold line. Tears along margins and fold line.
![Sign from the Third World Conference on Women, inscribed and hand-signed by prominent Israeli delegates. [July 1985].
The s](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/62.jpg "Sign from the Third World Conference on Women, Signed by Israeli Deleg")
The sign reads "Israel". It is inscribed and signed (in Hebrew) by five high-ranking Israeli delegated to the third World Conference on Women: Nitza Shapiro-Libai, jurist and former prime minister adviser on women's affairs; Tamar [Eshel], Maarach MP from 1977 to 1984; Judy Varnai-Dranger, Israeli diplomat; Yael Vered, Israeli diplomat; and Naomi Chazan, political science scholar, human rights activist and Meretz MP.
The Third World Conference on Women convened in Nairobi, Kenia in order to review and appraise the achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women (1976-1985). Representatives of 157 countries attended the conference, including 25 Israeli delegates. The conference's goal was mainly to appraise the progress made in the implementation of groundbreaking resolutions made in the previous two conferences on women (held in 1975 and 1980).
Local and international press criticized the Israeli delegation for politicizing the event and focusing on Israel's public image rather than on actual feminist issues (see "Mivtza Nairobi", HaOlam HaZe, 31.7.1985).
The handwritten inscriptions (including "I am glad we are past that, and hope we never face any worse"; "Well done. An achievement for women, for Israel and for the Jewish people") reflect the diplomatic scandal that nearly put an untimely end to the conference as it was drawing to a close: the final document, which the delegates all had to sign, included a clause referring to women's important role in opposing imperialism, colonialism, apartheid and Zionism. Due to Israeli pressure, backed by the US and Canada, the term "Zionism" was dropped and replaced by a general reference to ending racism and racial discrimination, a change considered by Israel an important diplomatic success.
Framed: 30.5X12.5 cm. Good condition. Unexamined out of frame.
Two portrait photographs of Dan Ben Amotz by David Rubinger.
1. Intimate portrait of Dan Ben Amotz (a photograph from the same series was printed in the October 22, 1989 issue of the daily newspaper "Hadashot, " to accompany an article in memory of Ben Amotz).
2. Photomontage: portraits of Dan Ben Amotz.
Two photographs, 25X20.5 cm. Good condition. Creases, minor abrasions and blemishes. Foxing to back. Handwritten on back (in pen): "Rubinger".
Dan Ben Amotz (born Moshe [Mussia] Tehilimzeigger, 1924-1989), native of Poland, one of the quintessential Renaissance men of Israeli culture, active, among other things, as an author, journalist, translator, screenwriter, satirist, radio personality, and actor. In his younger days, he had served as a member of the Palmach underground and as an agent working on behalf of illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine in the final years of the British Mandate. Ben-Amotz was responsible for some of the most popular literary works of the early decades of the State of Israel, including "Yalkut HaKzavim" (in collaboration with Haim Hefer; 1951), "Lizkor VeLishko'ah" ("To Remember and Forget, " 1968), "Milon Olami LeIvrit Meduberet" ("World-class Dictionary of Spoken Hebrew, " in collaboration with Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 1972), and many other pieces of literature; alongside Haim Hefer, he produced and took part in the acclaimed show "Tel-Aviv HaKtanah" ("Little Tel Aviv"); on radio, he was one of the principal participants in the popular program "Sheloshah BeSirah Ahat" ("Three in One Boat";1955-59); he was a widely read columnist, writing for the daily newspaper "Hadashot, " and, in general, was one of the more prominent figures in Tel Aviv's bohemian circles.
Dan Ben-Amotz's reputation and legacy were severely tarnished after his death, following the posthumous publication by his friend, Amnon Dankner, of a controversial biography that raised allegations of a history of sexual misbehavior and exploitation of women.
"Class of Sheleg – Shlom HaGalil War", newpaper column by Dan Ben Amotz – a paste-up and negatives made in preparation for print. The column was printed in "Hadashot shel Shabbat", supplement of the newspaper "Hadashot", on October 28, 1988. Hebrew.
Four items from different stages of pre-press preparation of a column by Dan Ben Amotz, published a few days before the elections for the 12th Knesset: a paste-up (text and pictures pasted to a grid sheet; missing part of last paragraph), a negative of the page, an enlarged negative and an enlarged print on transparency.
In the column, Ben Amotz urges the public not to vote for the Likud party; he addresses a casualty of the 1982 Lebanon War (called Operation Peace for Galilee; in Hebrew: Mivtsa Shlom HaGalil or Mivtsa Sheleg), blaming the Likud-led government for his death. Under the title "Class of Sheleg – Shlom HaGalil War", appear photos of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Shamir and other ministers responsible for the war, arranged over an image of a military cemetary. Obove and below the photos appear the names of those killed in the war.
Approx. 35X50 cm to 51X61 cm. Condition varies.
Dan Ben Amotz (born Moshe [Mussia] Tehilimzeigger, 1924-1989), native of Poland, one of the quintessential Renaissance men of Israeli culture, active, among other things, as an author, journalist, translator, screenwriter, satirist, radio personality, and actor. In his younger days, he had served as a member of the Palmach underground and as an agent working on behalf of illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine in the final years of the British Mandate. Ben-Amotz was responsible for some of the most popular literary works of the early decades of the State of Israel, including "Yalkut HaKzavim" (in collaboration with Haim Hefer; 1951), "Lizkor VeLishko'ah" ("To Remember and Forget, " 1968), "Milon Olami LeIvrit Meduberet" ("World-class Dictionary of Spoken Hebrew, " in collaboration with Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 1972), and many other pieces of literature; alongside Haim Hefer, he produced and took part in the acclaimed show "Tel-Aviv HaKtanah" ("Little Tel Aviv"); on radio, he was one of the principal participants in the popular program "Sheloshah BeSirah Ahat" ("Three in One Boat";1955-59); he was a widely read columnist, writing for the daily newspaper "Hadashot, " and, in general, was one of the more prominent figures in Tel Aviv's bohemian circles.
Dan Ben-Amotz's reputation and legacy were severely tarnished after his death, following the posthumous publication by his friend, Amnon Dankner, of a controversial biography that raised allegations of a history of sexual misbehavior and exploitation of women.
!["Demokratia Motek – Maspik Lishon" [Democracy, Sweetie – You've Slept Long Enough!], illustrated protest poster, pr](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/65.jpg "Dan Ben Amotz and Amos Kenan – \"Democracy, Sweetie – You've Slept Long")
"Demokratia Motek – Maspik Lishon" [Democracy, Sweetie – You've Slept Long Enough!], illustrated protest poster, printed on behalf of Dan Ben-Amotz and Amos Kenan. [1970?]. Hebrew.
Poster published in protest against administrative detentions: "Democracy, Sweetheart – You've Slept Long Enough! / 37 Israeli citizens are being incarcerated without trial. / 700 are under house arrest without trial. / No indictments have been issued in their cases. / We all love to sleep – but lately / it's getting harder and harder to fall asleep. / [Put] the guilty ones – on trial. [And send] the innocent – home. / And now go back to sleep, Sweetie. / Yours with Love, / Dan Ben Amotz / Amos Kenan."
Under this message there is an illustration (most probably by Kenan) of a sleeping woman, lying on her side on the ground.
Dan Ben Amotz and Amos Kenan, authors and counterculture figures, among the most prominent personalities in the field of culture and literature in the early decades of the State of Israel. Renowned for their opinionated, radically left-leaning, anti-establishment views.
Approx. 49.5X35 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Minor creases. Few blemishes and minor tears to edges of poster.
Dan Ben Amotz (born Moshe [Mussia] Tehilimzeigger, 1924-1989), native of Poland, one of the quintessential Renaissance men of Israeli culture, active, among other things, as an author, journalist, translator, screenwriter, satirist, radio personality, and actor. In his younger days, he had served as a member of the Palmach underground and as an agent working on behalf of illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine in the final years of the British Mandate. Ben-Amotz was responsible for some of the most popular literary works of the early decades of the State of Israel, including "Yalkut HaKzavim" (in collaboration with Haim Hefer; 1951), "Lizkor VeLishko'ah" ("To Remember and Forget, " 1968), "Milon Olami LeIvrit Meduberet" ("World-class Dictionary of Spoken Hebrew, " in collaboration with Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 1972), and many other pieces of literature; alongside Haim Hefer, he produced and took part in the acclaimed show "Tel-Aviv HaKtanah" ("Little Tel Aviv"); on radio, he was one of the principal participants in the popular program "Sheloshah BeSirah Ahat" ("Three in One Boat"; 1955-59); he was a widely read columnist, writing for the daily newspaper "Hadashot, " and, in general, was one of the more prominent figures in Tel Aviv's bohemian circles.
Dan Ben-Amotz's reputation and legacy were severely tarnished after his death, following the posthumous publication by his friend, Amnon Dankner, of a controversial biography that raised allegations of a history of sexual misbehavior and exploitation of women.
Poster advertising the release of a book by Dan Ben Amotz. "Distributed to bookstores by Gad." Date and name of printer not indicated. Hebrew.
The poster features a portrait photo of Ben Amotz, along with the inscription "Dan Ben Amotz's New Book is Out!"
Approx. 68X46 cm. Good condition. Minor tears to edges. Minor creases and blemishes.
Dan Ben Amotz (born Moshe [Mussia] Tehilimzeigger, 1924-1989), native of Poland, one of the quintessential Renaissance men of Israeli culture, active, among other things, as an author, journalist, translator, screenwriter, satirist, radio personality, and actor. In his younger days, he had served as a member of the Palmach underground and as an agent working on behalf of illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine in the final years of the British Mandate. Ben-Amotz was responsible for some of the most popular literary works of the early decades of the State of Israel, including "Yalkut HaKzavim" (in collaboration with Haim Hefer; 1951), "Lizkor VeLishko'ah" ("To Remember and Forget, " 1968), "Milon Olami LeIvrit Meduberet" ("World-class Dictionary of Spoken Hebrew, " in collaboration with Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 1972), and many other pieces of literature; alongside Haim Hefer, he produced and took part in the acclaimed show "Tel-Aviv HaKtanah" ("Little Tel Aviv"); on radio, he was one of the principal participants in the popular program "Sheloshah BeSirah Ahat" ("Three in One Boat"; 1955-59); he was a widely read columnist, writing for the daily newspaper "Hadashot, " and, in general, was one of the more prominent figures in Tel Aviv's bohemian circles.
Dan Ben-Amotz's reputation and legacy were severely tarnished after his death, following the posthumous publication by his friend, Amnon Dankner, of a controversial biography that raised allegations of a history of sexual misbehavior and exploitation of women.