Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

“Yom HaMedinah” Newspaper – for She’erit HaPleta in Dsseldorf, May 1948

Opening: $250
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May 22, 1948 issue of the weekly German Jewish newspaper "Jüdischesgemeindeblatt für die Britische Zone" [Jewish Community Newspaper for the British Zone], printed for She'erit HaPleta Jews residing in the British Zone in Düsseldorf, Germany. German.
The cover page of the issue, devoted to the establishment of the State of Israel a few days earlier, quotes the Israeli Declaration of Independence and includes a special celebratory greeting from the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the Jewish Area in Germany (written in Bergen-Belsen on May 15, 1948).
12 pages, 47 cm. Fair-good condition. Dry, acidic paper, folded, tears along fold, scattered stains.
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita