Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Two Items on the Subject of Recruitment, 1940s

Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
1. Small poster issued by the New Zionist Organization, calling on members of the yishuv to enlist to the Jewish units of the British Army. Tel Aviv: Strod, [ca. 1942].
"Jews in the Fatherland, Let Us Create a Great Military Force: Defending, Fighting, Retaliating and Liberating. Let us Follow Jabotinsky and Enlist in the Jewish Battalions!" 24.5X32.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, creases and some stains. Tears and tiny perforations to margins.
2. Advertisement for the release of issue 5 [22] of the newspaper "Digleinu" - "For the Recruits", mouthpiece of the Tze'irei Agudat Yisrael Movement, Av 1948.
On the right are details regarding the issue contents; on the left is a photograph of a group of soldiers at the “Tze’irei Agudat Yisrael Club and Resort for the Religious Soldier” in Bnei Brak. In the middle is a piece of paper with the printed Hebrew inscription, “When this advertisement appears on the store signs, hundreds of youth rush to buy the newspaper. It is sent by the thousands to soldiers in all the camps”. 33X25 cm (thick paper). Good-fair condition. Open tears to two corners (with damage to text). Creases, restored tears. Filing holes.
Palestine, the British Mandate and Underground Movements, the State of Israel
Palestine, the British Mandate and Underground Movements, the State of Israel