Auction 99 Part 1 Avant-Garde Art and Russian Literature from the Rachel and Joseph Brindt Collection

"Safrut Collections", Journal Edited by Leib Jaffe – Moscow, 1918 – Issue No. 2 Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the First Zionist Congress – Modernist Cover

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Сборники "Сафрут" [Safrut Collections], Jewish literary journal edited by Leib Jaffe, issue number 2. Moscow: "Сафрут", 1918. Russian.
Second issue of the journal, which was published between 1918-1922 (a total of five issues appeared). This issue is dedicated to marking the 20th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress in Basel and includes a variety of texts and articles by Zionist leaders and thinkers, including Theodor Herzl, Leib Jaffe, Max Nordau, Yehuda Leib Klausner, Nahum Sokolow, Baal-Machshavot, Nathan Birnbaum, Chaim Greenberg, David Wolffsohn, Yechiel Tschlenow, and others.
The issue is accompanied by four plates with portraits of Herzl, Max Nordau, David Wolffsohn, and Zvi Hermann Schapira.

202 pages, [3] leaves. 25.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases and stains. Tears to margins of several leaves; tear along title page, restored with tape. Inscriptions. Bound (with original cover) in hard contemporary binding; stains and wear to binding.
Works in Yiddish and Compositions on Various Jewish Subjects
Works in Yiddish and Compositions on Various Jewish Subjects