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

Two Calendars Published by the "League of Jewish Women" – Nazi Germany, 1930s

Opening: $150
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
Two calendars published by the "League of Jewish Women" (Jüdischer Frauenbundes), for the years 1934/5, and 1938/9. [Berlin?]. German and some Hebrew.
1. Kinder-Kalender des Jüdischen Frauenbundes, für das Jahr 5695, 1934/35.
Illustrated children's calendar, containing woodcuts (most of them signed in print "ES.") Five of the illustrations were colored with color pencils.
[1] front wrapper + [14] ff., 20 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Minor blemishes, mostly to margins. Final page detached.
2. Das Jahr des Judischen Frauenbundes, 5699, 1938/39.
Jewish calendar. Fifty-one pages (a page for each week of the year) with portraits, quotes, and works by Jewish artists on verso. Title page printed on heavy paper with illustrations of the signs of the zodiac. Including an order form for the 1939/40 calendar (unpublished.)
51 ff., + [1] order form, approx. 17X13 cm. Good-fair condition. Pages bound with a string, threaded through filing holes. Closed tears and minor open tears to margins (mostly around the filing holes.) Minor blemishes to pages. Dedication on title page; hand-written inscriptions to several pages.
Hebrew Printing and Jewish Communities in Europe
Hebrew Printing and Jewish Communities in Europe