"Electrical Engineering Training Course. Part 1, Lighting Facilities" - guidebook for "544 Electrical and Mechanical Coy. Royal Engineers, Middle East Force". Printed "In the Field" [the Western Desert], October 1942. Hebrew and English.
Guidebook in electrical engineering for the "Electrical and Mechanical Jewish Company" (544) with the "Royal Engineers" unit of the British Army. Typewritten and stenciled. The guidebook contains diagrams, illustrations and charts (some of them are folded plates), as well as an introduction in Hebrew and English by the company's commanding officer.
The Electrical and Mechanical Jewish Company was established in 1942. It operated in Egypt and the Western Desert, where it was responsible for operating the water supply system constructed by the British forces. The company was split up into smaller units spread out over hundreds of kilometers of the water pipe. In early 1945 the company arrived in the south of Italy where it was responsible for the maintenance of electrical facilities, water systems and hospitals. The company was dismantled in 1946.
[1] leaf, 115, [13] pp. 20X16 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears and open tears to the margins of a number of leaves. Tears reinforced with adhesive tape to first and last leaves. Edges uneven. Edges trimmed on border of text (with minor defects to text) on some leaves. Cardboard binding mounted with the original cover. Stains, tears and defects to wrappers.
National Library holds parts 2 and 3 of the book (part 1 is missing).
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Children's Books and Games

Ein Buch von der Königin Esther [Book of Esther], [by Hugo Hermann]. Ostrava (Czechoslovakia): Jüdisches Volksblatt, [ca. 1920]. German.
Illustrated booklet for children, for the holiday of Purim. Text composed by the Zionist activist, journalist and author Hugo Hermann. Illustration on the cover signed: E. Preiss.
8 pp, 31 cm. Good condition. Stains (mostly to cover). Upper corners of leaves folded.

Hunt of Wild Animals (Hebrew). Poems by Itzhak Katzenelson. Warsaw: "Safrut", [ca. 1920s or earlier].
A booklet with eight children's poems depicting various animals and four plates with illustrations in color of those animals made for cutting and assembling. Assembly instructions appear on the inner side of front cover.
[8] leaves, 14 cm. Fair-good condition. Numerous stains. Creases. Detached cover. Tears to spine. Two illustrations were cut out of the booklet (lacking).
Not recorded in NLI catalogue.

MeOlameinu, newspaper of the students of "Machlaka 6" (6th Class) in "Tarbut" Gymnasium in Pinsk. First year, booklet A. Pinsk, Hanukkah (1925). Two copies (different).
A newspaper created by students of the "Tarbut" gymnasium in Pinsk. Stenciled manuscript. An illustrated title page. The paper includes compositions, poems, riddles, and more.
Presented are two copies, with identical texts but with different order of pages and a different design (to a number of pages). On title page of one copy appears a printed inscription "second edition".
Two booklets, [8] leaves (printed on both sides); [16] leaves (printed on one side), approx. 22 cm. Fair overall condition. Stains. Some tears at margins of a number of leaves. Faded print in one booklet; some staining and ink smears to the other booklet.
Not in NLI.

HaOniya VeHaArba, a fairy tale by R. Gustafson. Illustrations by D. Mitrokhin. Frankfurt am Main, Moscow-Odessa: Omanut, Gamliel series, [ca. 1922].
A children's story by Richard Gustafson, translated into Hebrew. Illustrations in color by Dimitry Mitrokhin.
[12] pp, 27.5 cm. Good condition. Stains (mostly to cover). Detached leaves. Tears to margins.