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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Collection of ephemera that once belonged to Moshe Mariel (Mirinberg), one of the members of the Lehi (Stern Gang) imprisoned by the British authorities in internment camps in Africa. Gilgil internment camp (one item from the Asmara detention camp in Eritrea), 1947-48. Hebrew and some Yiddish.
Included among the items: • Two notebooks containing handwritten poems by the deportees, some of them worded in decidedly harsh language: "Dozens will the grenade tear apart, and the Katyusha will mow down the masses, and [only then] shall we be satisfied" (from "Song of Praise to the Lehi") • Letter sent by Moshe Mariel to his family after the establishment of the State of Israel: "We watched a newsreel showing the State of Israel at the time of the conquest of Akko, the battles in the Negev, the bombing of Tel Aviv, the election of Ben-Gurion as prime minister; I don't know of any living author who can express the feelings of the boys while watching the newsreel" (June 1948). • Two printed programs for plays performed at the "Bamateinu" ("Our Stage") theater in the Gilgil internment camp (1948). • Printed discharge form issued to Mariel upon his release, along with the last of the deportees, from the Gilgil camp on July 5, 1948 (marked with the inked stamp of the administration and dated "Eve of the liquidation of the deportee camp"). • In addition, letters sent to Mariel by members of his family and by acquaintances of his during his internment; original envelopes; a photograph of Etzel (Irgun Tzva'i Le'umi) and Lehi deportees at the Asmara detention camp (Eritrea), and more.
27 items. Size and condition vary.
Moshe Mariel (Mirinberg), born in 1926, joined the Etzel (Irgun Tzva'i Le'umi), and subsequently joined the Lehi (Stern Gang) after the latter broke off from the Etzel. Enlisted in the British army and served as a military driver. In the course of his service, he used his connections to smuggle firearms to the Jewish undergrounds. Following his discharge, he became a civilian driver in the service of the British army. Was accused by the British authorities of taking part in the Lehi's bombing of the Sarafand (today Tzrifin) Camp in which 40 British soldiers and officers were killed (December 1946), arrested shortly thereafter, and sent to the Latrun Station. From there he was sent to the Sambal camp near Asmara, Eritrea, and subsequently to the Gilgil camp in Kenya. With his return to what was now the newborn State of Israel in July, 1948, he enlisted in the IDF and fought in the War of Independence, serving in the 89th Battalion of the 8th Brigade. He was severely wounded in the fighting.
![Twelve photographs of detainees and policemen at the Atlit detention camp. [1940s].
Photos show: female illegal immigrants](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/44_1.jpg "Collection of Photographs from Atlit Detention Camp – 1940s")
![Twelve photographs of detainees and policemen at the Atlit detention camp. [1940s].
Photos show: female illegal immigrants](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/44_2.jpg "Collection of Photographs from Atlit Detention Camp – 1940s")
![Twelve photographs of detainees and policemen at the Atlit detention camp. [1940s].
Photos show: female illegal immigrants](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/44_3.jpg "Collection of Photographs from Atlit Detention Camp – 1940s")
Photos show: female illegal immigrants from the ship Haviva Reik hanging laundry on barbed-wire fences; nurses vaccinating new detainees at the camp; doctors from the Jewish Agency performing medical inspections; five photographs from the estate of a Jewish policeman posted at the camp – photographs with policemen, a photograph with illegal immigrants, planting a tree near the camp fence and more; portraits of children detained at the camp; and more.
Four are press photos, with inked stamps of press agencies and printed information notes on verso (in English). One photograph is divided on the back to be used as a postcard, with a handwritten inscription: "Souvenir, clearance camp Atlit, 14.4.1942".
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
1. Ketubah recording the marriage of Moshe Ben Ya'akov and Esther Bat Yitzhak, from February 15, 1948. "On this date in the camp of Jewish detainees near the city of Dekhelia on the island of Cyprus".
Near the city of Dekhelia north of Larnaca were seven internment camps known as "Winter Camps". Due to the poor conditions, the ketubah was typewritten and mimeographed, on thin paper of poor quality. On verso – inked stamp of the "Chief Rabbinate, Cyprus", hand-signed by the secretary.
Approx. 30.5X23 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, fold lines and some holes (small, with no damage to text). Restored tears along fold lines and at the margins.
2. Souvenir card with a photomontage: photo of a young couple (presumably the couple whose names appear on the ketubah), surrounded by four photos of the camp.
6.5X9 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases and blemishes. Stains to verso.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Invitation or admission ticket to an exhibition held by HaOved HaTzioni in the Cyprus detention camps. One side features the exhibition name as well as a small tent; the other side is ink stamped with a JNF stamp and "the Karaolos camps defense drive" stamp (the exhibition revenues may have gone towards the 1948 war efforts).
Dated 2.5.1948 and numbered 22 on verso (penciled inscriptions).
Approx. 12X8.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains and creases.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Large collection of letters, photographs and documents, belonging to Menachem Kaufmann, a founding member of Givo't Zaid, a dissolved Kibbutz near today's Kiryat Tiv'on. Late 1940s to early 1950s. Hebrew; some items in German.
The collection comprises:
• Approx. 75 letters exchanged between Kaufmann, Members of Giv'ot Zaid and other settlements, and several official organizations: the "Histadrut", "Hever HaKevutzot VeHaKibbutzim", "Ahavah Children and Youth Village". and more.
The letters reflect life in the Kibbutzim during the 1948 War, and the early days of the State of Israel. They describe the harsh conditions endured during the period, various plans for the financial and social development of the Kibbutz, dilemmas regarding the Kibbutz way and life within a tight-knit community, various private matters, and more.
Some letters, sent to Kaufmann by his friend Avihud Zifroni (see next lot) describe in vivid detail Zifroni's experiences as a Zionist emissary to North Africa, including detailed descriptions of his work, encounters with local Jews, the lack of food and basic living conditions, and his homesickness.
• Approx. 30 documents and paper items, handwritten and printed: drafts for the Kibbutz's regulations document, eulogy for a late Kibbutz members, notes and lectures, book review ("I, Cloudius"), printed report on the cultivation of potatoes (1947), fourteen "Shanah Tovah" greetings cards from friends and institutions, and more.
• Approx. 280 photographs, placed in an album: Kibbutz members at work in construction and agriculture, life in the Kibbutz, the Kibbutz's children and members, military parades, excursions, and more. Several photographs captioned or dedicated to Kaufmann in handwriting.
Size and condition vary.
Kibbutz Giv'ot Zaid in the north-western part of the Jezreel Valley was founded in 1940, by graduates of the Kadoorie Agricultural High School and Mikveh Israel, and was named after Alexander Zaid, important figure of the Second Aliyah, prominent member of "Bar Giora" and "HaShomer, " who resided nearby (killed in 1938). Zaid's twin sons were among the founding members of the Kibbutz. Initially, the Kibbutz was not affiliated with any political movement, and therefore did not enjoy the support of the Zionist institutions. Growing financial hardships, and worsening social conditions, led to a steady abandonment of members, until the Kibbutz was finally dissolved in 1957.
15 letters by Avihud Zifroni, emissary of "Hever HaKevutzot VeHaKibbutzim" movement to North Africa, sent to his friend in Kibbutz Giv'ot Zaid, Menachem [Kaufmann]. France and North Africa, 1948-1950.
15 handwritten letters, describing in colorful detail Zifroni's work as emissary of "Hever HaKevutzot VeHaKibbutzim" movement, responsible for organizing immigration to Israel, recruiting new Kibbutz members, and establishing a pioneering youth movement in North Africa.
Zifroni writes in a clear, humorous, tone, describing various difficulties he experienced in his work – difficulties which only increased over time, as his work progressed, despite of several small achievements, that were met with little recognition on the part of the movement.
The letters express ambivalent opinions with regards to the Jews of North Africa, their harsh living conditions in the Jewish quarters, their mentality, their religious devoutness, and what he calls "the North African problem."
In addition to detailed accounts of his work, Zifroni writes in a vivid style about his personal life, and about dilemmas related to the movement, and to life in Giv'ot Zaid, and more.
15 letters (50 written pages). One letter incomplete. Size varies. Overall good condition. Minor stains and creases. Fold lines. Minor marginal tears to some leaves.
Enclosed: a telegram sent by Zifroni from Marseilles, informing of his expected return to Tel Aviv (June 20, 1950).
A portfolio of documents belonging to the commander of the "Mishmar Ha'Am" (lit. "People's Guard, " the Jewish Civil Defense Force) in Jerusalem's Montefiore (Kiryat Moshe) neighborhood, Sarah HaMeiri Ostrovsky, wife of Rabbi Moshe HaMeiri Ostrovsky, one of the leaders of the Mizrachi movement. The portfolio contains dozens of forms, lists, pages of guidelines and instructions, and notes, handwritten and printed, that were used in managing neighborhood affairs in the period of the Arab siege on Jerusalem during Israel's War of Independence. 1947-48.
Included: • Handwritten notebook documenting various operations in wartime and under siege – the collection of articles and various types of donations (blood donations, donations of blankets), a "community kitchen, " a list of neighborhood water cisterns and convalescent homes. • Dozens of forms confirming the borrowing of equipment (flashlights, socks, helmets, scarves) from neighborhood residents. • A list of people who refused or were unable to pay the "Defence Tax" (along with comments such as "gave only one lira, " "had no good reason for refusing to give, " "was lacking in means, " or "will pay a visit to the rabbi's wife tomorrow.") • A hand-drawn color sketch of three buildings in the neighborhood, indicating entrance locations. * Several pages of instructions regarding defensive measures in case of aerial bombardment. * "Communiqué / Orders" calling upon members to attend urgent meetings of the "Mishmar Ha'Am, " along with a list of members' names and their signatures. • Several forms to be used by members of "Mishmar Ha'Am, " including a form for listing buildings and the people responsible for them, power of attorney for people collecting equipment, instructions for those collecting equipment, and more. Some of the forms are filled out; others are left blank. • And more.
Duplicate copies of some forms. The documents are kept in an official paper portfolio of the World Mizrachi Organization.
Approx. 95 items. Size and condition vary.
• Nineteen photographs depicting soldiers who volunteered for service in the British army, as well as soldiers in the incipient Israel Defense Forces (IDF), including a number of senior IDF officers such as Yaakov Dori, Yigael Yadin, and others. Three photos marked with the inked stamps of the photographers: "W. Herz, " (Jerusalem); the IDF's "Map and Photograph Service"; and Kurt Triest.
Average size: 11.5X17 cm. Condition varies.
• Album comprising some 110 photographs of a soldier who first served in the British armed forces, and then fought for the newborn State of Israel in the War of Independence on the Southern (Negev) front; photographs from Nirim, Halutza, Beersheba, Abu Ageila, and other locations.
Average size: 8X6 cm. Condition varies.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Photographs depicting armored vehicles breaching the blockade on the road to Jerusalem in the course of Operation Nachshon (April 1948); MV Altalena in flames in the waters off Frischmann Beach, Tel Aviv (June 1948); Kibbutz Negba in the aftermath of the battles there (1948); conquest of the Arab villages of Khulda and Abu Shusha (1948); Haganah forces in the Ben Shemen Youth Village (1947); airplanes on the tarmac of the Tel Nof air base; and more. At the beginning of the album are a number of photographs showing Haganah forces engaged in training exercises before the war (1946), and at the end are photos of excursions to places throughout the country (to Eilat, Naharyim, Beersheba, and additional locations in the days following the war, 1949).
The photographs are arranged in an album with handwritten captions and dates, and most are also titled and dated on verso.
Roughly 230 photographs, size and condition vary. Overall good condition. A few are mounted onto the album leaves with adhesive tape. Album: approx. 25X36 cm. Several leaves partly detached. Creases, stains, and tears to edges of tissue guards. Binding slightly worn, with adhesive tape to length of spine. Several newspaper clippings mounted onto inside binding.
Photo album documenting the soldiers of the 51st Battalion of the Givati Brigade during the War of Independence. [Israel, late 1948 / 1949].
Album with roughly 750 photographs taken by a soldier in the 51st Battalion of the the Givati Brigade during the War of Independence and thereafter. The photographs document the opening of the road to the Negev in the course of Operation Yoav (October 1948); and the day-to-day functioning of soldiers of the battalion and brigade during the war, in battle sites where the Egyptian army was defeated and evicted, during ceasefire periods, and while performing routine tasks on the army bases.
Among other things, the photographs highlight the work of the Givati Brigade's technical units, responsible for radio, mapping, and other matters; equipment, including mortars, armored vehicles, and aircraft used in Operation Yoav; specific sites, including the vicinity of the Arab village of Beit Jibrin and the Beit Jibrin villa, the Iraq Suwaydan police station (site of today's Yoav Fortress) and presumably the village of Iraq Suwaydan as well, Tegart forts, and unidentified Arab villages in the regions of the Coastal Plain and northern Negev; roll calls; erecting a sign for "Givat Arnon" (a hilltop outpost, No. 113 – one of the so-called "junction" hilltop outposts – named after Ya'akov Arnon who fell in the line of duty in the battle for the site); erecting a sign for “Migdal Yoav” at the site of the Iraq Suwaydan police station; erecting a sign for “Mishlat Haim” (named after Haim Bolman who fell in the line of duty in the course of one of the battles for Huleiqat, adjacent to Kibbutz Gvar'am); erecting a sign for "Givat Shimshon"; various sites in Beersheba following its capture by Israeli forces; water wells excavated in the desert; Arab villagers; portrait photographs of soldiers; and photos of leisure activities, including trips and excursions. A few photographs are signed in the plate (in Hebrew) "Photo Service – Givati." A handful of photographs are of personal events or trips of a non-military nature.
The photographs were mostly likely taken by Yosef (Joachim) Ehrenberg, born in 1924, who studied at the Technion (Haifa) in the mid-1940s and served in Givati Brigade during the War of Independence.
Photographs of varying sizes, from approx. 4X5.5 cm to approx. 11X15 cm. Mounted onto thin paper leaves bound into an album. Leaf size: 25X36 cm. Overall good condition. Stains to edges of some photographs and minor distortions resulting from mounting. Several photographs detached, at times along with paper leaf.
Enclosed: two photo albums with photographs by Ehrenberg, comprising roughly 200 personal photographs, including photos from trips throughout the country and from his student days at the Technion. The photos seem to indicate that Ehrenberg's role in the military was somehow related to his professional training at the Technion, possibly in what was known as the “Photographic Service” or in some other technical capacity.
Israeli propaganda leaflet which presents enemy soldiers with two options: death or surrender. One side features a large photograph of dead soldiers on the battlefield, with the inscription " كذا...? او" [Thus…? or]; on the other side appears the inscription " كذا" [thus], and photographs of the allegedly comfortable life led by Arab POW's in Israeli prisoner-of-war camps.
Approx. 24X17 cm. Fair condition. Fold lines and creases. Tears to edges and along fold lines (minor damage to text). Pen inscriptions.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
The issue's headline announces with great pathos the outcome of the vote, held in the UN's General Assembly the day before, November 29; the assembly has approved the "partition plan", which will end the British Mandate for Palestine, and allow for the establishment of a Jewish state alongside an independent Arab state.
4 pp., 58 cm. Good conditions. Stains. Creases and fold lines. Tears (including minor open tears) to margins and fold lines.