Two building permits issued by the Municipal Corporation of Jerusalem, three sheets with architectural drawings and nine sheets with statical calculations for building additions to the house of the artist Ya'akov Eisenberg in "Neve Bezalel" neighborhood. Jerusalem, 1938. Hebrew and Arabic.
The "Neve Bezalel" neighborhood was found by Boris Schatz, director of "Bezalel", who was planning to settle the artists active in the school in its vicinity. The neighborhood was founded In 1924 and among its first inhabitants were artists Mordechai Ardon, Ya'akov Eisenberg, Moshe Murro and Yehye Yemini.
1-2. Two building permits issued by the Municipal Corporation of Jerusalem in February 1938; one permit for addition to the existing building and the other – permit for a temporary structure in the house of the artist Ya'akov Eisenberg in "Neve Bezalel" neighborhood in Jerusalem. Tri-lingual forms – Hebrew, English and Arabic – with details in Arabic and Hebrew about the planned changes to the building and the conditions of this permit filled in. Ink-stamped with the City's Engineer's Department stamp, Accounts Section stamp and the Sanitary Department stamp.
40X24 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Open tear to top left corner of the sheets. Filing hole. Creases. Ink is somewhat faded.
3-5. Three sheets with architectural drawings for building additions. The sheets are titled "Chazan-Levin Architects" and "Beit Y. Eisenberg Neve Bezalel, plan of additions" (in Hebrew and English; on one of them this title appears in English only). Stamped "Approved Plan" by the City Engineer's Department. The sheets are stapled together with the sheets appearing as items 6-14 hereunder.
53.5X37.5 cm. Two sheets in fair-good condition. Creases. Tears and open tears. Faded colors. Third sheets in poor condition. Numerous tears and large open tears. Creases. Margins of leaves are almost wholly lacking. Filing holes. Drawings in pen on back of sheets.
6-14. Sheet with mathematical calculations for the plans of additions to Ya'akov Eisenberg's house (stenciled). On the first leaf appears the title "Statical Calculation, House of Mr. Eizenberg, Neve Bezalel, Jerusalem". Ink stamped "Approved s[tatical] calculations" and "Applicant's copy". Sheets are stapled to the drawings in the previous paragraph.
21X34 cm. Fair-poor condition. Significant staining. Tears and open tears. Creases. Filing holes. One sheet is detached from the others.
The documents are inserted in the original folder bearing the titles "Building Permit folder" and "Applicant's Copy".

Ten paper items printed on behalf of Maccabi Organization. Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and other places, late 1910 to late 1940s.
Among the items:
* Maccabi, illustrated periodical for Physical Education matters, published four times a year, edited by Y. [Ya'akov] Wassermann. Published by "Merkaz ha'Maccabi' beRussia" [Maccabi in Russai], Odessa, [1918]. First year, booklet 1 (no additional booklets have been printed). Numerous illustrations and photographs.
* Regulations of the Maccabi Association in Palestine. M. Shoham press, Jaffa, [1927?]. A booklet with 99 regulations concerning the operations of the Maccabi organization in Palestine: name of the association, motto, duties and rights of members, finances, committee meetings and other subjects.
* "Hed HaMaccabi", a one-time publication (published by the Association for Gymnastics and Sports Maccabi, Palestine, with the support of "Brit Vatike 'HaMaccabi' Palestine"), edited by Yitzchak Korland. Tel-Aviv, [1934]. A booklet published on the occasion of the return of the Jewish delegation from the Western Asiatic Games in New Delhi – a competition sponsored by the Olympic Committee, with the participation of representatives from Afghanistan, India, Palestine, Persia and Ceylon (Sri-Lanka).
* Three member cards – Maccabi organization in Palestine: Card from 1927, in the name of Bunim Hezroni, football and handball player in Afula; card from 1928 in the name of Yitzchak Ziesling, one of Maccabi founders, chairman of Maccabi Israel and one of the Maccabiah organizers; card from 1938 in the name of Moshe Kassel, teacher and educator, founder of the first Volleyball team in Haifa.
* Three more issues of periodicals and a calendar for 1947, printed on behalf of Maccabi movement.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains, creases and damage (mostly slight). Professionally restored tears to covers and to margins of some pages of the regulation brooklet and the "Maccabi, illustrated periodical" booklet.
Bottom margins of first leaf of "Hed HaMaccabi" are trimmed (slightly affecting text).

Blue Box the Bold. Text and illustrations by Mordechai Wahrhaft, English translation by Lawrence Weston. Jerusalem: Reuven Mass, [1940s]. English.
Rhymed story by Mordechai (Amitai) Warhaft, translated from Hebrew to English, about the journeys of "Kufson Ben-Chayil" (JNF Blue Box character) in Palestine. Lithographic printing ("Grafika") in blue and orange.
22 pp, 19.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains and slight damage to cover. Bound with a string.

Fifteen books, calendars, compositions and periodicals about Palestine and its history. 1859-1950.
1. Yerushalayma! By Ludwig August Frankl. Vienna: Descendants of Israel Knopfflmacher bookstore press, [1859].
2. Yerushalayim, essays by Avraham Moshe Lunz. Vienna: Avraham Moshe Lunz, [1882].
3-7. Lu'ach Eretz Israel (Hebrew), calendars for the years 1895, 1896, 1905, 1911, 1913. Published by Avraham Moshe Lunz, Jerusalem.
8. Hachayim VeHateva, (Hebrew), by Dr. Y. L. Metmann. Published by Nature Society in Eretz Israel, Jaffa, [1909].
9. Akko, (Hebrew), Monograph by Aharon Ahronson. Hayishuv publishing, Tel-Aviv, [1925].
10. Yerushalayim, (Hebrew), Palestine Exploration Society, in memory of R' Avraham Moshe Lunz, edited by A. L. Sukenik and I. Peres. Published by "Darom" publishing house and bookstore, Jerusalem, [1928].
11. Edut BiYehosef, (Hebrew) expedition to Palestine in the years 1760-1762, by R' Yosef Sofer. Published by "Darom", Jerusalem, [1933].
12. Yerushalayim, (Hebrew), quarterly for the research of Jerusalem and its history, bound volume of issues. Published by Harav Kook Institute and the Palestine Institute for Folklore and Ethnology, Jerusalem, [1948].
13. Kivrei Avot, (Hebrew), the study of Jewish graves in Eretz Israel, by Dr. Michael Ben Ish Shalom. Published by Harav Kook Institute of World Mizrahi and the Eretz Israeli Institute for Folklore and Ethnology, Jerusalem, 1948.
14. Some principal Muslim religious buildings in Israel (Hebrew), by L. A. Meir, I. Pinkerfeld, H. Z. Hirsheberg, I. L. Maimon. Published by the Committee for the Preservation of Muslim Religious Buildings in the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Jerusalem, [1950]. Hebrew, Arabic and English.
15. Palestine 10 Pictures, painted by Ze'ev Raban. "Bezalel" Jerusalem. Tel-Aviv: "Sinai", [ca.1950]. Dedication handwritten by Raban, dated 1953.
15 books, size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Books were not thoroughly examined and are sold AS IS.

Emergency Laissez-passer by the Government of Palestine, issued for Pinchas Rutenberg. Palestine, February 1925.
Official certificate (valid for one year) permitting its holder to leave to Egypt, Europe and America. The certificate served as a substitute for a passport for Palestine residents who were not British subjects.
Two leaves (four pages), typewritten, with handwritten additions, signatures and stamps.
Rutenberg's passport picture with his signature appear on the first page above his full details: citizenship, age, height, etc. The pages are full of ink-stamps and visas of England, Italy, German, Suez Canal border-crossing, etc. Among the stamps is an Austrian stamp dated August 1925 alongside a handwritten inscription in German ("besuches des Zionisten Kongresses"), attesting to Rottenburg's participation in the 14th Zionist Congress in Vienna.
Pinchas Rutenberg (1879-1942) was a Jewish-Russian revolutionist, head of the National Committee for two terms, founder of the Israel Electric Corporation and pioneer of modern industry in Palestine. This document is from the time Rutenberg received the exclusive franchise from the Mandate government to produce electricity in Palestine and he began with plans to construct the hydro-electric power plant in Naharayim.
[2] leaves (four pages), 33 cm. Fair condition. Folding marks and creases. Many tears to edges and along the folding marks, some open and some reinforced with adhesive tape. Stains.