Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

"War Against the War" Ball – Against the Spanish Civil War, 1937

Opening: $100
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
A poster announcing a ball held by the Kibbutz HaArtzi HaShomer HaTza'ir movement in "Ora", Haifa, in August 1937. The event's aim was to express the movement's opposition to the civil war in Spain where the Fascist Nationalists fought against the Republicans. The war waged from 1936 to 1939.
Evening's program included: the play "Citizen G. signs a peace treaty by himself" by Lion Feuchtwanger, a sketch, a speech, a reading, a recitation, and a dance.
The poster is in red.
92x63 cm. Folding lines. Tears and filing holes, most of which are restored by white paper on verso.
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