Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture

Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more

Six Postcards with Photographs of Jewish Soldiers – WWI

Opening: $150
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
Six postcards with photographs of Jewish soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army (some with letters to relatives). Various locations, 1916-17 (and other years?).
1-2. Two postcards with photographs showing young people wearing army uniforms. Photographer: Johann Martin Lenz, Celje (today in Slovenia). Captioned (in Hebrew) in pencil: "The grandson of R. Samuel is shown working in the Austrian army during the war, 1916."
3-6. Four postcards with group photos of soldiers and handwritten letters (in German). Two of the postcards are addressed to Selig Adlerstein in Safed; one of these – showing soldiers wrapped in prayer shawls ("tallitot") – bears the caption (in Hebrew): "The prayer of members of the Army of Israel on Rosh HaShanah, year 5678 [1917] in the field in the course of the campaigns of the war."
Six postcards, approx. 13.5X9 cm. Condition varies. Overall good-fair condition. Stains. Abrasions and (small) open tears to edges. One postcard with tear to width, secured with strip of adhesive tape on back.
Jewish Soldiers in WWI
Jewish Soldiers in WWI