Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Issues of the "Shurot" Periodical / Children's Booklet – Cyprus, 1948-1949
Opening: $500
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1-18. Eighteen issues of "Shurot" ("Lines") periodical. Cyprus, October 1948 to February 1949. Issues nos. 1-4, 7, 11-15, 17, 19, 22, 24, 29, 48, 50 (two copies).
Issues include information on the Cyprus internment camps, as well as news from Israel and the world. Most issues are devoted to coverage of the War of Independence. Issue no. 50 is the periodical's last issue: "This is for us a jubilee and a death knell… today, the staff members are making aliya to Israel, together with the rest of the camp olim." Total of 18 issues (the last issue appears in two copies), ca. 31 cm. Condition varies. Stains. Tears to margins of several pages.
19. Children's booklet for learning Hebrew, telling of the journey of a boy named David to Palestine (sailing aboard an illegal immigration ship, arriving in Tel Aviv, etc.). [Cyprus?, ca. 1948]. With a number of illustrations. [6] leaves (no cover), 28 cm. Stains. Tears to margins of several pages.
Issues include information on the Cyprus internment camps, as well as news from Israel and the world. Most issues are devoted to coverage of the War of Independence. Issue no. 50 is the periodical's last issue: "This is for us a jubilee and a death knell… today, the staff members are making aliya to Israel, together with the rest of the camp olim." Total of 18 issues (the last issue appears in two copies), ca. 31 cm. Condition varies. Stains. Tears to margins of several pages.
19. Children's booklet for learning Hebrew, telling of the journey of a boy named David to Palestine (sailing aboard an illegal immigration ship, arriving in Tel Aviv, etc.). [Cyprus?, ca. 1948]. With a number of illustrations. [6] leaves (no cover), 28 cm. Stains. Tears to margins of several pages.
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus