Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Photograph Album – "Bnei Zion" Talmud Torah for Mizrahi Children

Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
"Batei HaTalmud Torah HaMeuhadim 'Bnei Zion' VeYeshivat HaBachurim" [The United "Bnei Zion" Talmud Torah Halls and Boys' Yeshiva]. Album with eight photographs of pupils at the "Bnei Zion" Talmud Torah for children from Eastern countries in Jerusalem, [1920s].
Eight photographs are mounted on the album leaves showing pupils at the institution, classed according to country of origin: Bukhara, Georgia and the Caucasus, Yemen, the Near East and Palestine, Morocco and Iraq, Iran, Kurdistan, and Syria (Aleppo). Captions are glued underneath each photograph. A short explanation in Yiddish regarding the Talmud Torah, followed by printed letter copies from Rabbi Kook, Rabbi Sonnenfeld, and a letter from the Admorim of Gur, Sokolov, Stryków and Bendin, are glued on the first pages of the album.
[13] leaves. Photographs: 13X8 cm, album: 15X21 cm. Good condition.
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Photography, Postcards and Graphics
Travels in Palestine, Maps, Photography, Postcards and Graphics