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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![Livre Tally de la Patrouille des Aigles [Tally Book of the Eagle Patrol], the "Theodor Herzl" troop of the "Un](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/13_1.jpg "\"Theodor Herzl\" Troop of the Youth Movement \"Universal Union of Jewish")
![Livre Tally de la Patrouille des Aigles [Tally Book of the Eagle Patrol], the "Theodor Herzl" troop of the "Un](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/13_2.jpg "\"Theodor Herzl\" Troop of the Youth Movement \"Universal Union of Jewish")
![Livre Tally de la Patrouille des Aigles [Tally Book of the Eagle Patrol], the "Theodor Herzl" troop of the "Un](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/13_3.jpg "\"Theodor Herzl\" Troop of the Youth Movement \"Universal Union of Jewish")
![Livre Tally de la Patrouille des Aigles [Tally Book of the Eagle Patrol], the "Theodor Herzl" troop of the "Un](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/13_4.jpg "\"Theodor Herzl\" Troop of the Youth Movement \"Universal Union of Jewish")
![Livre Tally de la Patrouille des Aigles [Tally Book of the Eagle Patrol], the "Theodor Herzl" troop of the "Un](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/13_5.jpg "\"Theodor Herzl\" Troop of the Youth Movement \"Universal Union of Jewish")
Livre Tally de la Patrouille des Aigles [Tally Book of the Eagle Patrol], the "Theodor Herzl" troop of the "Union Universelle de la Jeunesse Juive" (U.U.U.J) in Tunis. Tunisia: 1936-1937. French.
A booklet made by members of the "Eagle patrol" of the Theodor Herzl troop, a group belonging to the "Union Universelle de la Jeunesse Juive" (U.U.U.J) in Tunis. The booklet contains many color illustrations, photographs from the patrol's various scouting activities, newspaper clippings, postcards, and pictures of important Zionist figures, of places in Palestine and of different sites in Tunisia. The hand-written text in French reports on the patrol's diverse activities throughout the year, and includes various materials on Zionism.
The U.U.U.J was established in Paris as a Zionist youth movement, inspired by the Scouts Movement; its first chapter in Tunisia was established in 1924. The organization was well oriented towards Zionism, which was seen as both a practical and a spiritual solution for the plight of the Jewish nation. It was operated by French Jews, for Jews of the Orient and Eastern Europe, and in this sense resembled the "Alliance Israélite Universelle."
For further reading, see: "Zionism in Tunisia: French Colonialism and Local Nationalism, " by Haim Saadoun. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2019. p. 127. (Hebrew).
[107] ff., 22 cm. Stains. Minor tears. Several leaves and gatherings detached. Some items that were pasted onto the pages are detached. Strips of acidic tape to several leaves and cover. Cloth-covered boards; binding loose and worn. Stains and tears to binding.
Enclosed:
• Program of the U.U.U.J fair, held in Tunis in 1948, with a leaflet containing information on the movement and its history (French).
• Leather Star of David, to be worn on the clothes.
Large collection of drawings by painter, designer and medalist Ivan Sors, prints after his works, photographs and more. [Europe and the USA, first half of 20th century].
The collection includes:
• 47 portrait drawings of Zionist and Jewish leaders, intellectuals and other persons of note – Theodore Herzl, Haim Weizmann, Berl Katznelson, A.D. Gordon, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Max Nordau, Henrietta Szold, Albert Einstein and others. 32 portraits on paper (mixed media; some signed) and 15 on tracing paper (presumably final versions for print). Some subjects are depicted twice, on both types of paper.
• Several prints after these portraits (each print comprises several small portraits, arranged around a map of the Land of Israel or a seven-branch candelabrum; several portraits included in the prints do not have a hand-drawn counterpart in the present collection).
• 6 portrait drawings signed by the subjects, including one portrait of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who defeated Winston Churchill in the 1945 elections.
• Some 60 drawings and caricature (mostly ink and pencil), including Dwight D. Eisenhower in military uniform, several portraits of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, a caricature of Albert Einstein holding books, surrounded by mathematical symbols; and more.
• Photographs of the artist and his acquaintances, reproductions of his works and more.
Ivan Sors (1895-1950), painter, caricaturist and medalist, born in Reca, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Immigrated to Prague as a young man and worked there as an illustrator for several magazines. Following the outbreak of WWII, he left Europe and in 1940 settled in the US, where he started working with a number of Jewish-American publications. His work includes portraits of thousands of public figures and persons of note in Europe and in the US, with a notable portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He is also famous for a series of portrait plaques featuring famous Jewish and Zionist persons, commissioned by collector Samuel Friedenberg.
Some 140 items. Size and condition vary.
![100 İBRANICE ŞARKI – "A Hundred Hebrew Songs". [Presumably Turkey]: Ariel, [late 1940s, early 1950s].
Mimeographe](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/15_1.jpg "\"A Hundred Hebrew Songs\" – Zionist-Turkish Song Book, Including \"HaTik")
![100 İBRANICE ŞARKI – "A Hundred Hebrew Songs". [Presumably Turkey]: Ariel, [late 1940s, early 1950s].
Mimeographe](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/15_2.jpg "\"A Hundred Hebrew Songs\" – Zionist-Turkish Song Book, Including \"HaTik")
Mimeographed typescript. The booklet features a hundred Hebrew songs transliterated to Turkish: "Şir A Tsofim", "Imnon Namal Tel Aviv", "Şir Hapalmah", and others. "HaTikvah" is printed at the end of the booklet, with the subheading "İsrael Milli Marşi" (Israeli National Anthem.)
Rare. The NLI holds a copy lacking title page (listed in the NLI catalogue under the title ("Song of Zion").
[1], 57, [3] pp., approx.16.5 cm. Good condition. Minor creases. Few stains. Several minor tears to margins. Thick paper wrappers (blank) stained and slightly worn; tear to spine. Part of title page stuck to front wrapper.
1. Letter "to the Honorable delegates of the Palestine Institutes Convention, Jerusalem", written on official letterhead stationery of The Return to Zion Committee. Cairo, 15.2.1918.
In this letter, addressed to the "Yishuv Directors" in Palestine, the exiles express their wish to return to Palestine as soon as possible. They also raise complaints against the "Special Committee for Relief of Jews in Palestine" (probably, the "Special committee for aid to Palestine Jews" headed by Jacques Mosseri), and questions about assisting inhabitants in Palestine who suffer serious poverty. The letter is signed by the heads of the committee: Israel Cahanov, M. Poliak, A. Komerov and others.
[3] ff. (three written pages), 27.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Fold lines. Small holes and tears. Filing holes, torn, to the three leaves, affecting text.
2. A letter to the "Members of the Return of Zion Committee, Port Said". Written on official letterhead stationery of the Conjoint Committee "Shivat Zion". Cairo, 19.3.1918.
The letter relates to the visit of the Zionist Commission (Va'ad HaZirim Le-Eretz Israel) in Egypt and the founding of a joint committee of all of the Jewish societies in Egypt for the purpose of submitting a joint memorandum to the committee. Announcements and messages to the exiles in Egypt from inhabitants of Palestine appear at the end of the letter. Signed by the chairman and secretary of the committee.
[1] f., 27.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Fold lines and creases. Small holes and tears (some open), some reinforced with adhesive tape. Filing holes at margins.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Presumably, this band belonged to a soldier in the Jewish Legion. The colors of the band are identical to the colors of the flag of the "HaRishon LeYehuda" (First Judeans) battalion of the Jewish Legion and the embroidered slogan echoes the slogan of the battalion – "Bead Amenu uBead Artzenu" (a slogan chosen by Ze'ev Jabotinsky).
Approx. 88X2.5 cm (including tying bands). Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
1-2. Two postcards with photographs showing young people wearing army uniforms. Photographer: Johann Martin Lenz, Celje (today in Slovenia). Captioned (in Hebrew) in pencil: "The grandson of R. Samuel is shown working in the Austrian army during the war, 1916."
3-6. Four postcards with group photos of soldiers and handwritten letters (in German). Two of the postcards are addressed to Selig Adlerstein in Safed; one of these – showing soldiers wrapped in prayer shawls ("tallitot") – bears the caption (in Hebrew): "The prayer of members of the Army of Israel on Rosh HaShanah, year 5678 [1917] in the field in the course of the campaigns of the war."
Six postcards, approx. 13.5X9 cm. Condition varies. Overall good-fair condition. Stains. Abrasions and (small) open tears to edges. One postcard with tear to width, secured with strip of adhesive tape on back.
![Liste der öst. Ung. Unterthanen im Saffed [List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed], handwritten notebook (12 wri](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/19_1.jpg "\"List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed\" – Safed, 1885 – Signa")
![Liste der öst. Ung. Unterthanen im Saffed [List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed], handwritten notebook (12 wri](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/19_2.jpg "\"List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed\" – Safed, 1885 – Signa")
Liste der öst. Ung. Unterthanen im Saffed [List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed], handwritten notebook (12 written pages). Safed, May 29, 1885. German.
Booklet containing a list of 147 Jewish subjects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, residents of Safed during the late 19th century. The last page is stamped with an official stamp of the "Austria Kollel" ("Kollel Österreich") in Safed, and bears signatures and stamps (in Hebrew and Latin letters) of three of the heads of the Kollel: "M.[Moshe] Zeiger Charag in Safeth" (1824-1909), representative of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager of Vizhnitz in the Kollel, grandfather of the artist Yosef Zvi Geiger (1870-1944); Berisch Lüstman, representative of Lviv's Jews in the Kollel; and Jacub Fridfertig, representative of the "Vizhnitz Kollel" in the "Austria Kollel."
Underneath appears an official inked stamp of the Austro-Hungarian consular agency in Safed, alongside the handwritten signature of the consular agent, Josef Miklasiewicz (1825-1907.)
[12] written pages (+ [4] blank pages), 29 cm. Good condition. Vertical fold line. Minor marginal tears. Stains and inscription to blank pages.
1. Small broadside announcing the results of the elections for the "Eretz Israeli Assembly" ("HaKenessia HaEretz-Yisraelit") (1903). Resembling a parliament, the "Eretz Israeli Assembly" was led by Menachem Ussishkin, challenging Herzl and the Zionist congress; the organization was disbanded after two years of activity.
2-3. Regulations leaflet and an official letter by the "First Assembly of Representatives" (1920): • A letter sent to the Tachkemoni school, on behalf of the central elections committee in Jaffa, stressing the importance of the coming elections. Printed; bearing a "Zion" postage stamp. • "Regulations for the Gatherings of the Assembly of Representatives of the Jews of Palestine", a leaflet containing 36 clauses, regulating the activity of the Assembly (Luncz Press, ca. 1920.)
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Fold lines, stains and creases. Minor marginal tears. Tear along horizontal fold line of the broadside (item 1).
• Roughly 45 invitations and notices – most of them printed and signed by the secretaries and directors of the Jewish National Council – sent to Rabbi Moshe HaMeiri Ostrovsky, representative of the Mizrachi organization: notice of an appointment with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, an urgent invitation to a meeting with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, invitations to meetings regarding issues of security in the moshavot, aliyah and absorption, establishment of the Jewish Agency, and more. Among the signatories: Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and David Yellin.
• Delegate's card (no. 8) for the First Assembly of Representatives of the Jews in Palestine, issued to Rabbi Ostrovsky. Marked with the inked stamps of the directorate of the Jewish National Council (David Yellin, Dr. Jacob Thon, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi), with discount coupons for the purchase of train tickets.
• "Rules and Regulations for the Elections to the Assembly of Representatives of the Jews in Palestine, " printed broadside issued in time for the first elections held (in 1920) by the Jewish Yishuv. Tel Aviv: Ahdut Press, [ca. 1920]. With information regarding the right to vote, the right to submit candidacy, special privileges for soldiers of the Jewish Legion, and more.
• "Circular to the Haredi Communities in Palestine!", printed broadside issued by the "Council of Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] Delegates" – an announcement of their impending withdrawal from the Jewish National Council. Nisan, 5682 [1922].
• Entrance ticket to the "Founding Assembly" in Jaffa (June 17, 1918), hand signed by Dr. Jacob Thon (the Founding Assembly gathered three times in the course of the First World War, and was the Palestine Jewish community's representative body in dealings with the British. Following its third meeting, the "Assembly of Representatives" was established).
• And more.
Approx. 60 items. Size and condition vary.
Milon HaLashon Ha-Ivrit BaZman Hazeh, Hibro Eliezer Ben Yehuda [Dictionary of the Hebrew Language of This Time, by Eliezer Ben Yehuda] Booklets "Gimel" and "Daled" (out of the six booklets printed in this edition). Jerusalem: Hashkafah, [ca. 1902]. Hebrew.
Between 1900 and 1905, Eliezer Ben Yehuda printed a series of thin booklets that were sold to subscribers. These booklets represent his early attempts of publishing a full unabridged dictionary of the Hebrew language. These attempts did not last long; in the end, only six such booklets were actually printed, which were together titled "Mahadura Kama" ("First Edition").
These are two of the six booklets. They contain entries for words beginning with the Hebrew letters "aleph-vav-bet" through "aleph-vav-het" (Booklet "Gimel") and "aleph-het" through "aleph-yud-nun" (Booklet "Daled"). With original covers, printed in Hebrew and French. A printed (Hebrew) note appears at the beginning of Booklet "Gimel": "The present booklet has been so delayed on account of my journey to Russia on business related to the dictionary."
Booklet "Gimel": 79-122 pp., 26.5 cm. Booklet "Daled": 123-166 pp., 27.5 cm. (Two additional leaves appear at the beginning of the scanned copy of Booklet "Daled" kept in the National Library of Israel: pp. 23-26 of the Introduction.) Good-fair condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. Tears (mostly minor) to edges. Cover and a number of other leaves detached in Booklet "Daled"; several leaves uncut at top edges. Open tears and pinholes to edges of covers. Strip of paper to edge of one cover. Missing spines.
![Die Boden- und Düngungsverhältnisse in Palästina [The Soil- and Fertilization Conditions in Palestine], by Fritz Keller. J](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale87/23.jpg "\"The Soil- and Fertilization Conditions in Palestine\" – Agricultural G")
Agricultural guidebook concerning the soil conditions and fertilization requirements in Palestine, by the agronomist Fritz Keller – a member of the German Templer Society, and the founder of an agricultural school in the Templer colony Wilhelma. Through the school, as well as through this guidebook, Keller aspired to introduce modern, scientifically based, agricultural methods, and thus strengthen the local industry and the Christian settlement project in Palestine.
17 pp., 18 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Minor creases. Several minor tears to edges (open tear to edge of first leaf). First and last page partially stuck to cover. Tear along spine. Piece of paper pasted to upper spine. Ex-library copy – inked stamps to front cover and several leaves, sticker to cover, pen notations to inner front cover and first page.
Rare. Not in NLI; One copy in OCLC.
1. "Protocol of a Meeting of the council of the Federation of the Jewish Colonies, Judea,
with the participation of members of the leadership of the Jewish National Council." [1922].
Seven-page document (mimeograph copy of typewritten original), ending with a note handwritten and signed by Menashe Meirovitch.
7 ff., 27.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Fold lines. Stains. Tears, including open tears, and punch holes (with damage to text). Lengthy tear to last sheet (with minor damage to handwritten note by Meirovitch).
2-6. Five letters from Menashe Meirovitch, Chairman of the Federation of the Jewish Colonies, Judea, to the council of the moshava Be'er Ya'akov. Handwritten and printed letters, all hand signed by Meirovitch. Four letters dated 1922.
Letters dealing with administrative matters, including calls to attend a meeting of the council, to support the Federation, and to cooperate with collective associations; concerning the growing and packaging of tobacco; and more.
[5] ff., size and condition vary. Fold lines. Stains. Tears and punch holes, with damage to text.
7. Handwritten letter from the council of the moshava Be'er Ya'akov to the chief secretary of the Farmers' Federation, Tel Aviv, December 1947.
The letter addresses the issue of the severing of the connection between the moshava Be'er Ya'akov and Tel Aviv, and the difficulties in getting to Rishon LeZion from the moshava on account of the security situation.
[1] f., 30.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Punch holes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.