Four postcards published by the JNF or dealing with it and three other printed items published by the JNF.
Among them: * "Gedenkt dem National Fund", postcard depicting a grandfather and grandson inserting a coin into a JNF box. * Postcard with a photograph of the first Golden Book of the JNF. * Postcard with a portrait of Yonah Kremenezky, "the first director of the Jewish National Fund", to which a postage stamp of the JNF is glued. * Postcard calling to donate to "Ölbaumspende" ["Donation of Olive Tress", a fundraising campaign of the JNF for planting trees in Palestine in a format that existed until ca. 1912], with a reproduction of a lithograph by Hermann Struck on it. The postcard notes that the profits of the olive groves that will be planted will support a Jewish college in Palestine. * A bookmark on which a text in Hebrew and, Yiddish was printed, detailing the activity of the JNF and the amount of funds raised by it. On the upper part of the bookmark, a portrait of Zvi Herman Shapira, the first to suggest the idea of founding a Jewish National Fund. [Britain?, 1922]. * "Donation of Trees" Certificate in memory of Theodor Herzl (designed by Emil Ranzenhofer) for a tree that was donated in London, 1933. * "Donation of Trees" Certificate "in commemoration of the silver jubilee of His majesty's Reign", for a tree that was donated in London, 1939.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.

Two ornamental boxes for collecting donations for the Jewish National Fund, shaped as books. Germany and Israel, [1930s-1960s].
1. An impressive ornamental box shaped as a book. Germany, [1930s].
The box is covered with blue leather. On its front panel, there is an impressed monogram of the Hebrew initials of the JNF, a star-of-David with a lion inside it and the Hebrew words "Jewish National Fund". On the side panel appears the Hebrew slogan "You shall give redemption for the land" and on its back panel, a map of Israel on which lands that had been redeemed by the JNF are marked.
2x7.5x11.5cm. Good condition. The leather covering is worn at the corners and edges. Stains on the brass parts.
2. An ornamental box shaped as a book. Made by Leon Königshofer. Israel, [1950s or 1960s]. The box is covered with brown faux leather printed in gold. On its front panel appears the logo of the JNF and on the back, a map of Israel without the areas of Judea and Samaria. On the side panel of the box appear the manufacturer's details. The dimensions of this box are larger than those of most ornamental boxes.
2x8.5x13cm. Good-fair condition. The covering is worn at the edges and corners. Stains. The printing is faded.
During the 1920s, with the dissemination of the Zionist vision and the activity of the JNF in the Diaspora and the JNF boxes becoming a common phenomenon, the JNF started manufacturing "Ornamental Boxes" shaped as books, to fit the houses of the middle and upper classes more than the simple tin boxes which were considered cheap. The boxes were meticulously designed; however, they were not as costly as the ornamental boxes that were made by artists (such as the Fleischhaker Boxes) and were therefore more common than the artistic boxes.
Literature: the Blue Box, by Prof. Shaul Ladani and Dotan Shulman, 2014. pp. 84-93.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

"Kol MeHeichal", a broadside issued by the rabbis of Jerusalem in preparation for the Shmita (sabbatical) year of 1889. [Jerusalem, 1888].
A public appeal to the Jews of the Diaspora to come to the aid of the settlers of Palestine in preparation for the Shmita year of 1889 and donate money to sustain them. With the printed signatures of 30 of the scholars and rabbis of Jerusalem.
Under the public appeal, a "direct announcement" by Rabbi Shmuel Salant and Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin – a halachic ruling rejecting the "Heter Mechirah" (the halachic sale of land to non-Jews prior to the Shmita year) and prohibiting agricultural work, both of Jews and of non-Jews during the Shmita. The halachic ruling is stamped with the stamps of Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin, Rabbi Shmuel Salant and the Badatz of the Ashkenazic community of Jerusalem.
Before the Shmita year of 1889, several of the farmers of Palestine, who feared that observing the Shmita will leave them without their livelihood, appealed to the Natziv of Volozhin, Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever of Bialystok and Rabbi Mordechai Eliasberg with a request to allow them to work the land by selling it to a non-Jew. A dispute arose around the issue of working the land during the Shmita year ("The Shmita Polemic"), with the most prominent rabbis of the era expressing their opinion on the subject. The Ashkenazic rabbis of Jerusalem, headed by Rabbi Diskin and Rabbi Salant, refused to join the "Heter Mechirah" and ruled that the observance of the Shmita cannot be evaded.
[1] leaf, 39.5cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, fold lines and creases. Tears and open tears, restored, slightly affecting text. A large, open tear to the left edge, restored with paper.

26 humorous booklets and journals. Warsaw and Palestine (most of them from Palestine), 1904-1939. Hebrew and a little Yiddish.
Most of the booklets were printed for Purim, Passover and other holidays, and deal with politics, Zionist leaders, the Yishuv in Palestine, the situation of Jews around the world and more.
Among them: * "Das Purim Blat", 1904, a humorous Yiddish journal printed in Warsaw, which among others, refers to the Uganda Scheme, and contains an article by Max Nordau. * "The official programme of the masked balls of Baruch Aggadati, year IX". Tel-Aviv, Purim (1929). Cover illustration by Yisrael Paldi. * "Beyad Chazaka, humorous booklet for Passover 1933". Jerusalem, 1933. With a comic illustration of Hitler on the cover, by Aryeh Navon. * The Hebrew booklets "The Canon", "The Chirper", "a Seat of Scorners", "Afikoman", "The Bat", "The Porcupine", and more.
Size and condition vary. Fair-good overall condition. Tears, stains and wear.