Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
Unfolding "Shanah Tovah" Card – With Picture of Participants in the First Zionist Congress and Portraits of Jewish, Zionist, and American Figures – New York, 1899
Opening: $150
Sold for: $600
Including buyer's premium
Unfolding "Shanah Tovah" card, with portraits of Jewish and Zionist figures, as well as American political and military personalities, and with a picture showing all the many participants in the First Zionist Congress. New York: Yehuda Katzenellenbogen (Judah Meyer Katzenellenbogen, among the founders of the Hebrew Publishing Company), [1899].
The card's exterior is made of gold embossed paper. On either side is an illustration of a hand offering a greeting card and flowers. The card is divided into a number of unfolding sections, with each face opening in several directions, inside and out, resembling a window with numerous wings folded over each other. In the interior sections there are New Year greetings in Hebrew, English, German, and Russian (including a rhymed Hebrew greeting for the Hebrew year 5660 – 1899), and numerous portrait photographs and drawings of characters and personalities from Jewish history, as well as rabbis and Zionist figures. The depicted individuals include Moses, Aaron, the Gaon of Vilna, Baruch Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Spector, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Sir Moses Montefiore, the Baron Maurice de Hirsch, the Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Alfred Dreyfus, Émile Zola, and many others. One particular face bears the portraits of all the representatives participating in the First Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland in 1897.
Other pictures include a group photo of the students and staff of the Jaffa Boys' School; a print showing Yom Kippur services at an army camp near the city of Metz, France; portraits of prominent Jewish Rabbis; an illustration of the Western Wall; and a host of other images.
Interspersed among all these items pertaining to the Jewish world are portraits of non-Jewish figures such as George Washington, Christopher Columbus, US President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt (who was Governor of New York State at the time), and Admirals George Dewey and William T. Sampson. There is also a picture of the USS "Maine." The margins of the greeting card are adorned with red fringes.
In folded state: 12X9 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Minor tears and stains.
The card's exterior is made of gold embossed paper. On either side is an illustration of a hand offering a greeting card and flowers. The card is divided into a number of unfolding sections, with each face opening in several directions, inside and out, resembling a window with numerous wings folded over each other. In the interior sections there are New Year greetings in Hebrew, English, German, and Russian (including a rhymed Hebrew greeting for the Hebrew year 5660 – 1899), and numerous portrait photographs and drawings of characters and personalities from Jewish history, as well as rabbis and Zionist figures. The depicted individuals include Moses, Aaron, the Gaon of Vilna, Baruch Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Spector, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Sir Moses Montefiore, the Baron Maurice de Hirsch, the Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Alfred Dreyfus, Émile Zola, and many others. One particular face bears the portraits of all the representatives participating in the First Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland in 1897.
Other pictures include a group photo of the students and staff of the Jaffa Boys' School; a print showing Yom Kippur services at an army camp near the city of Metz, France; portraits of prominent Jewish Rabbis; an illustration of the Western Wall; and a host of other images.
Interspersed among all these items pertaining to the Jewish world are portraits of non-Jewish figures such as George Washington, Christopher Columbus, US President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt (who was Governor of New York State at the time), and Admirals George Dewey and William T. Sampson. There is also a picture of the USS "Maine." The margins of the greeting card are adorned with red fringes.
In folded state: 12X9 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Minor tears and stains.
"Shanah Tovah" Greeting Cards and Postcards
"Shanah Tovah" Greeting Cards and Postcards