Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Four Posters Issued by "Keren HaYesod" – Invitations to Lectures and Speeches by Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow / Invitation to a Conference Marking the 10th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration – Jerusalem, 1926-1927

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Four posters issued by Keren HaYesod:
1. Invitation to a lecture by the president of the Zionist Federation Dr. Chaim Weizmann "On the present situation of the movement and the country" which took place on Mount Scopus on April 21, 1926.
2. Invitation to a lecture by the president of the executive committee of the Zionist Federation Nahum Sokolow on "the situation in Palestine and Jews in the Diaspora" which took place on Mount Scopus on September 1, 1927.
The poster served as a model for an additional poster – an invitation to a speech by Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the stadium of "Maccabee" on October 23, 1927. The information of the new poster was written in ink on this one.
3. An invitation by the National Committee of Keren HaYesod to a speech "to the people" by Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the stadium of "Maccabee" on October 23, 1927.
Two handwritten pieces of paper, with corrections, are mounted on the poster ("chief" was corrected to "national"; the hour "2" was corrected to "5").
4. Invitation by the National Committee of Keren HaYesod to a festive conference "marking the 10th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration" headed by M. Ussishkin, at the hall of the "Lemel" school, on Novemebr 2, 1927. The speakers: David Yellin, Prof. Yosef Klausner and Yosef Sprinzak.
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Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Posters and Graphic Art
Posters and Graphic Art