Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Collection of Photographs – Cyprus and Betar
Opening: $300
Unsold
Approx. 110 photographs. Most of them are family photographs and a small portion of them document the camps in Cyprus. Arranged in an album. [Europe (?), Cyprus, Palestine and Israel, ca. 1940s to 1950s].
Most of the photographs document a family in Israel of the 1940s and 1950s. approx. 15 of the photographs document the lives at the camps in Cyprus: * Roll calls of the Betar Movement at the camps in Cyprus, one of them of the "Shimshon battalion of Betar". * Group photograph with Ze'ev Jabotinsky's portrait. * Photograph of a couple in one of the camps in Cyprus. Signed in the plate " Foto Mis (?) Cyprus 69". Dated on verso "April 48". * A bride and groom with their friends on the backdrop of a shack. * Montage of works of art in the spirit of Betar – a bust of Jabotinsky, a sculpture of Samson splitting the lion, a painting of Jabotinsky pointing at a map of Europe covered with graves of Jews, and more.
Size and condition vary. Most of the photographs are mounted to the leaves of an album.
Most of the photographs document a family in Israel of the 1940s and 1950s. approx. 15 of the photographs document the lives at the camps in Cyprus: * Roll calls of the Betar Movement at the camps in Cyprus, one of them of the "Shimshon battalion of Betar". * Group photograph with Ze'ev Jabotinsky's portrait. * Photograph of a couple in one of the camps in Cyprus. Signed in the plate " Foto Mis (?) Cyprus 69". Dated on verso "April 48". * A bride and groom with their friends on the backdrop of a shack. * Montage of works of art in the spirit of Betar – a bust of Jabotinsky, a sculpture of Samson splitting the lion, a painting of Jabotinsky pointing at a map of Europe covered with graves of Jews, and more.
Size and condition vary. Most of the photographs are mounted to the leaves of an album.
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