Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

"Sefer HaMa'atzar VeHaGalut" – Kenya, 1947

Opening: $400
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
"Sefer HaMa'atzar VeHaGalut (Shalosh Shanim LeGalutenu) [The Book of Detainment and Exile]. Jewish Detainees Camp in the Golah, Gilgil, Kenya, [October 1947].
Top of title page reads: "'Badad' - Ktav Et LeDivrei Machshava VeSifrut" [Alone - Periodical for Thought and Literature]. Thick book, stenciled typewritten pages, with illustrations, diagrams, charts, sheet music, appendices and maps. A very comprehensive study of the three years spent by the Etzel and Lehi exiles in camps in Africa.
321, [4] leaves, [3] plates of photographs. 33 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases and tears. Some stains. Almost entirely detached cover and loose signatures.
Palestine, the British Mandate and Underground Movements, the State of Israel
Palestine, the British Mandate and Underground Movements, the State of Israel