Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $120
Sold for: $163
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1. Appeal by the Tiberias Relief Committee, [printed in Haifa, 1934]. Aid request by a committee representing all ethnic groups in Tiberias, following a serious flood in Tiberias that "caused not only casualties but also poverty to many of the city's inhabitants". Printed leaf, Arabic, Hebrew and Engish. Single leaf, good condition. Filing holes, folded.
2. Handwritten letter, sent from Tiberias on October 12 [1938] describing in detail the massacre of Tiberian Jews ten days earlier, during which 19 Jews were murdered and the synagogue burnt. [6] pages, good condition. Folded leaves.
2. Handwritten letter, sent from Tiberias on October 12 [1938] describing in detail the massacre of Tiberian Jews ten days earlier, during which 19 Jews were murdered and the synagogue burnt. [6] pages, good condition. Folded leaves.
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Eretz Israel, Settlements
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Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $120
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"Who forced me to leave the country in 1928?" – 24 letters. Jaffa and Haifa, 1926-1928.
File containing correspondence between Meir Rosenman after he was fired from the Electric Corporation, claiming that he is not a Zionist, and the management of the corporation and Eliyahu Golomb, representative of the Jewish Laborers Federation (Histadrut). Letters of claims and letters to Audit Committee, claims for severance payment and request to be re-hired. Rosenman worked for the Electric Corporation between the years 1925 and 1927 and was then fired, claiming that he is not a Zionist. In a letter of reply sent by Pinchas Rutenbeg to Rosenman, he stated that "it is his duty to employ only those people who really want to tie their lives to this land". 24 letters + issue of newpaper, 30 cm. Fair condition. Tears and stains.
File containing correspondence between Meir Rosenman after he was fired from the Electric Corporation, claiming that he is not a Zionist, and the management of the corporation and Eliyahu Golomb, representative of the Jewish Laborers Federation (Histadrut). Letters of claims and letters to Audit Committee, claims for severance payment and request to be re-hired. Rosenman worked for the Electric Corporation between the years 1925 and 1927 and was then fired, claiming that he is not a Zionist. In a letter of reply sent by Pinchas Rutenbeg to Rosenman, he stated that "it is his duty to employ only those people who really want to tie their lives to this land". 24 letters + issue of newpaper, 30 cm. Fair condition. Tears and stains.
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Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
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Collection of documents of David Ettinger and "Successors of Chaim Cohen" Company, owners of petroleum enterprises in the South of Russia which later on placed a petroleum pipe in the sea near Haifa shores, for pumping petroleum directly from the ships and storing it in containers on the mainland. Eretz Israel and Russia, 1910's – 1950's.
Archive contains: Two large original photographs, "Chaim Cohen's warehouse and petroleum refineries near Saratov in Russia"; "Visit of Chaim Cohen owner of Petroleum company in the plant…" 1909 or 1910; five small photographs and a few later printings of photographs relating to petroleum enterprises. * Various letters most of them concerning the petroleum business. * Four architectural sketches for the Haifa petroleum pipe, 1920's. Total of 18 original items of that period + several later photographs from newspapers and books. Various sizes and conditions.
Archive contains: Two large original photographs, "Chaim Cohen's warehouse and petroleum refineries near Saratov in Russia"; "Visit of Chaim Cohen owner of Petroleum company in the plant…" 1909 or 1910; five small photographs and a few later printings of photographs relating to petroleum enterprises. * Various letters most of them concerning the petroleum business. * Four architectural sketches for the Haifa petroleum pipe, 1920's. Total of 18 original items of that period + several later photographs from newspapers and books. Various sizes and conditions.
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Eretz Israel, Settlements
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Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
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14 Booklets "She'ifoteinu" – Monthly magazine and a collection of articles published by "Brit Shalom". Jerusalem, 1927-1933.
Brit Shalom – movement established in 1925 by a group of Jewish intellectuals, aiming at achieving co-existence between Jews and Arabs, through yielding the right to establish a national home for Jews in Eretz Israel, as stated in the Balfour Declaration. Amongst the members and supporters were Arthur Ruppin, Martin Buber, Shmuel Hugo Bergman, Gershom Shalom, Ernst Simon, Henreitta Szold, Yehudah Leib Magnes and others. Approximately 21 cm. Condition varies, fair to good. Ink-stamps.
Brit Shalom – movement established in 1925 by a group of Jewish intellectuals, aiming at achieving co-existence between Jews and Arabs, through yielding the right to establish a national home for Jews in Eretz Israel, as stated in the Balfour Declaration. Amongst the members and supporters were Arthur Ruppin, Martin Buber, Shmuel Hugo Bergman, Gershom Shalom, Ernst Simon, Henreitta Szold, Yehudah Leib Magnes and others. Approximately 21 cm. Condition varies, fair to good. Ink-stamps.
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Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $150
Sold for: $275
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Ele Toldot Avodah Achat. "Solel Boneh Ltd." Publishing, Eretz Israel, [c. 1944].
Caricatures album printed in a photography-technique on photographic paper, contains about 50 caricatures featuring "Solel Boneh" company's workers way of life such as work in different sites, connections with the army; position holders, work-camp and more. "Caricatures by Avigdor Meler, portraits by Yesha'ayahu Dinburg, Photography: Brothers Zak, Tel Aviv". 46 leaves, 16X9.5 cm. Good condition.
Caricatures album printed in a photography-technique on photographic paper, contains about 50 caricatures featuring "Solel Boneh" company's workers way of life such as work in different sites, connections with the army; position holders, work-camp and more. "Caricatures by Avigdor Meler, portraits by Yesha'ayahu Dinburg, Photography: Brothers Zak, Tel Aviv". 46 leaves, 16X9.5 cm. Good condition.
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