Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Collection of Broadsides – the Irgun, Lehi and Hebrew Youth Organizations – 1940s

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Ten broadsides issued by the Irgun, one broadside issued by the Lehi and a broadside issued jointly by the Hebrew Youth organizations against the dissident organizations. Palestine, 1940s. Hebrew (one broadside is in Hebrew and English).
1-10. Eleven broadsides issued by the Irgun, including: an announcement about the execution of the two British sergeants Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice (The Sergeants Affair); a response broadside to the bombing of the King David Hotel and the dismantling of the Jewish Resistance Movement; a broadside rejecting the recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine in April 1946; a bilingual broadside, in Hebrew and English, warning British policemen not to disturb the prayer beside the Western Wall on Yom Kippur (without the Irgun's name); a broadside calling the Arab population to join the struggle of the Irgun against the British (printed on bright blue paper); and more.
11. A broadside issued by the Lehi, threatening to harm British policemen if they harm Jews in the DP camps in Europe (1948).
12. A broadside issued jointly by the Hebrew Youth organizations, condemning the "wild terror of the dissidents and renegades". Signed in print by 27 youth organizations and schools: Bnei Akiva, Gordoniya, HaPoel, Maccabee, the Yemen Youth, the Herzliya Gymnasium, and others (Kislev, 1944).
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Palestine, British Mandate and Underground Movements, the State of Israel
Palestine, British Mandate and Underground Movements, the State of Israel