Certificate issued by JNF – for planting two trees in the "Martyrs Forest", in memory of holocaust victims. Issued by the JNF Central Council in Germany. [Ca. 1951]. Design: Y.D. Sheinson.
The certificate was granted to Mr. Yitzchak Eichler for planting two trees in memory of his relatives who perished in the Holocaust. Hand-signed on its margins and stamped with a stamp of "JNF Central Council in Germany".
Color illustrations of Jews in concentration and extermination camps alongside illustrations of Israel. At the corners – Stars of David with the Hebrew caption "JNF". A "Yizkor passage appears on top. The certificate was designed by Yossef David Sheinson (signed in the plate)
Certificate: approx. 27.5X39.5 cm. In a 31.5X43.5 cm frame. Good overall condition. Horizontal fold line. Unexamined out of frame.

Six paper items (booklets, a printed card and leaflets) in which the "Blue Box" of the JNF appears or is referred to. Palestine and New York, [ca. 1920s-1930s]. Hebrew, French and English.
Including: * "Song of Praise for the Box of the Jewish National Fund" (Hebrew) by Gabriel Grad and Aharon Ashman. * A printed card issued by the Jewish National Fund Bureau for America. * The gateway to the land, a booklet issued by the JNF. "Goldberg" press, Jerusalem. * And more.
Size and condition vary. Fair to good overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

"Nissim zeynen geshehn…". Design: Moshe Feigenblum. Rio de Janeiro: [Jewish National Fund?], 1947. Yiddish, Hebrew and Portuguese.
A paper scroll, presumably published by the Jewish National Fund, printed in Yiddish, Hebrew and Portuguese; recounting the story of the Esther Scroll alongside the history of the Zionist Movement, its political and national activity and its future goals. The Hebrew text and the Yiddish text were decorated by Moshe Feigenblum.
The Hebrew text of the story of the Scroll summarizes the biblical version while using its verses. The second part of the text, the story of Zionism, begins with the Zionist concept and the First Zionist congress, notes the Balfour Declaration, describes the pioneers' work and the illegal immigration enterprise, the defense and fighting organizations and the work of the Jewish National Fund and Keren Hayesod, all this in the spirit of the scroll and while using familiar phrases from it. The text ends with a call - "Gather and stand up for yourselves and for your nation! And standing up for the nation cannot be done but by building! […] and lasting building is only building the country as the homeland of the Jewish nation".
In the Portuguese text (which parallels the Hebrew text), the scroll emphasizes Brazil being one of the countries of the UN that signed the giving of the mandate for Palestine, which includes the Balfour Declaration and its ratification, to Britain.
[13] columns ([14] columns in the Portuguese text), approx. 23X94 cm. Good-fair condition. Tears, among them open tears, some of them slightly affecting the text. Reinforcement with paper mounted on verso on the upper part of the sheet. Several stains. Creases.
This trilingual edition is not in NLI and not in OCLC.

A postcard with a group photograph of Jews who were deported from Palestine to Alexandria by order of Djemal Pasha, during World War I. [1915].
A group photograph of Jewish Palestinian exiles in Alexandria next to a cinema. Captioned in the plate: "Picture of Palestinian exiles at the cinema, Alexandria the second day of Chol HaMoed Passover 1915. Photograph Y. Wolfhart of Jerusalem" (Hebrew).
With the outbreak of World War I, most of the Jewish citizens of Palestine, members of the first and second Aliyah who lived in Palestine without Turkish citizenship, became enemy aliens. The Governor of Greater Syria, Djemal Pasha, ordered the deportation of all enemy citizens, and on December 17, 1914, hundreds of the Jewish residents of Jaffa were separated from their families and sent penniless to Egypt on a crowded ship. Over the next few weeks, additional Jews were deported under similar conditions, whereas those who remained in Palestine were victims of looting, harassment and confiscation of property.
9X14 cm. Good condition. Several minor stains. Abbrasions and minor blemishes. Stamp on verso.

Seven leaves documenting expenses related topaving the Haifa-Jedda road (today part of Road 75), submitted by the managers of the "Carmel Group". Palestine, 1921.
The leaves are handwritten on official forms of the "Public Works Department" (two different types of forms) and they specify the various expenses that were involved in paving the road: coachmen, barley, shoemaking and tailoring services, building materials, and more.
The road from Haifa to Jedda (Ramat Yishai) was paved by the Shomriyah Battalion and the Labor Battalion during the years 1920-1921; its paving was completed in early 1922.
7 forms, approx. 22-29 cm. Good-fair condition. Fold lines, stains and creases. Closed and open tears along edges and fold lines (some of them restored). Stamps on several of the forms.