Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Album of Photographs – A Jewish Young Man who Served in the Jewish Settlement Police – 1944-1946

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Sold for: $250
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An album with approx. 200 photographs, documenting approx. three years of the life of a Jewish young man in Palestine: service in the Jewish Settlement Police, studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and trips around the country. Jerusalem, Atlit, Peki'in, Capernaum and elsewhere, ca. 1944-1946.
At the beginning of the album, approx. 40 photographs documenting the man's service in the Jewish Settlement Police – tent camps, weapons training, building the new police station of the unit, raising the flag on the Victory Day of the Allies (8.5.1945) and additional photographs. Later, there are many photographs documenting his life as a student in Jerusalem – the buildings of the Hebrew University, visits to the Old City, the bombing of the British Criminal Investigation Department building in the Russian Compound of Jerusalem, and photographs documenting trips around the country – Atlit, Ashdot Ya'akov, Peki'in, Capernaum, the zoo in Tel-Aviv, a visit to the Maccabee Village on Shavu'ot and more.
Many of the photographs are captioned in handwriting on the leaves and some are captioned on verso. Some of the photographs are stamped on verso with the stamps "Technofoot, Beit HaKronot, Haifa" (Hebrew) and "Approved Military Photographer".
The photographs are arranged in an album with mounting corners. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Some of the photographs are detached. Album: approx. 23X32 cm. Blemishes and tears to binding.
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