Photograph album of a member of the Blau Weiss movement, captioned and dated by hand, and four paper items from the movement's jubilee convention. Germany and Israel, 1917-1962.
1. Album with some 90 photographs of the movement's members, from the years 1917-1919.
The album documents the movement's members on outings, sports competitions and ball games, field lessons and more. At the end of the album is a photograph of a Succah set for the holiday, decorated with flags and Stars of David. Most of the photographs mounted on the album pages are captioned by hand, dated, and include the names of the photographed persons and the places where they were photographed.
2-5. Four paper items printed for the movement's jubilee convention, in 1962, including a celebratory booklet with photographs by Erich Comeriner, a list of the 673 invited members, and more.
The youth movement "Blau-Weiss" (German: Blue-White) was founded in Germany in 1912 as a general youth movement by assimilated families whose children were turned away by the nationalist German movements. Until the 1920s the movement did not tend towards Zionism and its values, but after the end of World War I it began to adopt a Zionist ideological orientation and gained growing popularity. The movement was outlawed in Germany in 1929.
Photographs: 5.5X5.5 cm to 14X8.5 cm. Album: 26 cm, bound with string (unraveled). Some album leaves detached. Good overall condition. Light stains and creases to album leaves. Some tears, without damage to photographs.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.