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Lot 112

Photograph Album – "Bnei Zion" Talmud Torah for Mizrahi Children

"Batei HaTalmud Torah HaMeuhadim 'Bnei Zion' VeYeshivat HaBachurim" [The United "Bnei Zion" Talmud Torah Halls and Boys' Yeshiva]. Album with eight photographs of pupils at the "Bnei Zion" Talmud Torah for children from Eastern countries in Jerusalem, [1920s].
Eight photographs are mounted on the album leaves showing pupils at the institution, classed according to country of origin: Bukhara, Georgia and the Caucasus, Yemen, the Near East and Palestine, Morocco and Iraq, Iran, Kurdistan, and Syria (Aleppo). Captions are glued underneath each photograph. A short explanation in Yiddish regarding the Talmud Torah, followed by printed letter copies from Rabbi Kook, Rabbi Sonnenfeld, and a letter from the Admorim of Gur, Sokolov, Stryków and Bendin, are glued on the first pages of the album.
[13] leaves. Photographs: 13X8 cm, album: 15X21 cm. Good condition.