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

Four "Shana Tovah" Yiddish Postcards / Zionist "Shana Tovah" Greeting Card for the Year 5708 (1948) – Europe and the USA

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Four "Shana Tovah" Yiddish postcards and a Zionist "Shana Tovah" greeting card for the year 5708 (1948). Published by Williamsburg Post Card Co., "Z. Resnik" and other publishing houses, New York, Stuttgart, and elsewhere, [ca. second half of the 20th century].
1-4. Four "Shana Tovah" postcards: three colorful postcards with Yiddish greetings for the New Year (two of them signed in the plate by the designer – Chaim Goldberg); postcard with a photograph of a Jewish couple, alongside a Yiddish humorous text (The caption "LeShana Tovah" is printed on verso).
9X14 cm. Good to good-fair condition. Stains and blemishes. Tears and creases to margins. Creases and open tears to the margins of one of the postcards, affecting the print. Handwritten inscriptions (old) on verso of three of the postcards.
5. "Shana Tovah" greeting card the year 5708 (1948) – photograph of a Jewish couple on the backdrop of an illustration of an illegal immigrant ship, with the inscription "Tel Aviv" on the side of the ship. Signed on its margins (in the plate): "Foto S. Brau, Stuttgart". On verso of the card appears a handwritten dedication.
Approx. 5.5X8.5 cm. good condition, stains. Minor blemishes to margins.
Postcards, "Shanah Tova" Greeting Cards
Postcards, "Shanah Tova" Greeting Cards