Sixteen postcards presenting photographs and paintings portraying Yemenite Jews in Yemen and in Palestine. Orient- Verlag Press for the "Hilfskomitee für die yemenitischen Juden" [Aid Committee for Yemenite Jews], Berlin, [ca. 1920s].
Collection of postcards printed for the "Aid Committee for Yemenite Jews" – an organization founded in Berlin on the eve of World War I and active also afterwards, with the aim of assisting Yemenite Jews to settle in Palestine.
Twelve postcards show photographs of Yemenite Jews and their places of residence (especially the city of Sana'a) taken by the Jewish-German Orientalist and photographer Hermann Burchardt. Burchardt travelled throughout the Orient, visited Yemen three times between 1901 and 1909, and was murdered on his last visit to the country.
The rest of the postcards show photographs of Yemenite Jews in Palestine and a portrait of a Yemenite Jew by Yaakov Stark.
Printed on the back of the postcards is a short text (in German) describing the condition of the persecuted Jews of Yemen and appealing to German Jews to donate funds to aid them.
9X14 cm. Good condition. Stains and creases. Tears and minor blemishes to margins of some postcards. Small pieces are cut out from the margins of two postcards.