Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics

Altneuland, Illustrated Monthly – First Four Issues – Warsaw, 1919 – Maps of Palestine – Yiddish

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Sold for: $425
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Altneuland: Illustrirer Choydesh-zhournal, Gevidmet Eretz-Yisrael [Old-New Land: Illustrated Journal dedicated to the Land of Israel], edited by Yitzchak Triwaks. Issues 1 to 3 and issue 4-5 (double issue). Warsaw, 1919. Yiddish. The monthly Altneuland (after Theodor Herzl's utopian novel by the same name), edited by Yitzchak Triwaks, dealt with various matters related to Palestine – politics, economics, Zionist policy, the Arab residents of the country, and more. According to the mission statement at the beginning of the first issue, the journal's goal was to "… present before our readers the Land of Israel, in a manner suitable for everyone" (Yiddish). The present issues feature articles by Max Nordau, Arthur Rupin, Davis Trietsch, Aaron Aaronsohn, Yisrael Zangwill, Nachum Sokolov, David Ben Gurion, Yitzchak Ben Zvi and others, as well as pictures and illustrations by Chaim Goldberg (1888-1943) and others and two maps of Palestine . Four issues bound together, with the original covers. Issue no. 1: 47 pp. Issue no. 2: 48 pp. + [2] plates. Issue no. 3: 48 pp. + [2] plates. Issue no. 4-5: 77, [3] pp. Approx. 22.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Small tears to edges of some leaves. Minor worming, not affecting text. New binding.
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Illigal Immigration, British Detention Camps, The Establishment of the State of Israel
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Illigal Immigration, British Detention Camps, The Establishment of the State of Israel