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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $800
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Twenty- eight photochrom photos of Eretz Israel. "Photoglob" company, Zurich, late 19th cent.
Seen in the photos are the cities of Jerusalem, Beth-Lechem, Jaffa, Hebron, Jericho, Nazareth and other sites in the country. Photochrom is a technique of producing a lithographic print in color from a black and white negative. This technique was developed in Zurich late in the 19th cent., as a substitute for coloring photos by hand. The colors of photochrom photos are determined in the laboratory and do not reflect the real colors of the photo's subject. All photos are signed in the plate: P.Z. 22.5X16.5 cm, mounted on cardboard 32.5X25 cm. Good condition.
Seen in the photos are the cities of Jerusalem, Beth-Lechem, Jaffa, Hebron, Jericho, Nazareth and other sites in the country. Photochrom is a technique of producing a lithographic print in color from a black and white negative. This technique was developed in Zurich late in the 19th cent., as a substitute for coloring photos by hand. The colors of photochrom photos are determined in the laboratory and do not reflect the real colors of the photo's subject. All photos are signed in the plate: P.Z. 22.5X16.5 cm, mounted on cardboard 32.5X25 cm. Good condition.
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $200
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
Palestine, photo-album by Felix Bonfils [Beirut, late 19th cent.].
23 cardboard plates (out of 30) with photos of Eretz Israel by Felix Bonfils (1831-1885). Each plate is annotated in English. In an original folder, with an illustration in color.
23 plates (out of 30). Photos 16.5X11.5 cm mounted on cardboard 32.5X24 cm. Good condition. Staining, minor damages to folder. Photos in very good condition.
23 cardboard plates (out of 30) with photos of Eretz Israel by Felix Bonfils (1831-1885). Each plate is annotated in English. In an original folder, with an illustration in color.
23 plates (out of 30). Photos 16.5X11.5 cm mounted on cardboard 32.5X24 cm. Good condition. Staining, minor damages to folder. Photos in very good condition.
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $200
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Photographer and his Camera – 19th century
Photo of a Christian ceremony in front of the Holy Sepulcher Church in Jerusalem. Unknown photographer [late 19th cent.].
Photo of a ceremony with numerous participants. On the right side appears a photographer with his camera. 22.5X28 cm. Good condition. Cardboard backed 24.5X32.5 cm.
Photo of a Christian ceremony in front of the Holy Sepulcher Church in Jerusalem. Unknown photographer [late 19th cent.].
Photo of a ceremony with numerous participants. On the right side appears a photographer with his camera. 22.5X28 cm. Good condition. Cardboard backed 24.5X32.5 cm.
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $1,800
Unsold
Five group- photos of children and adults in traditional Bucharian clothing.
Photos were probably taken by Dr. Julius (Yehuda) Brutzkus (1870-1951), researcher of Jewish life in ancient Russia, of the Jewish World Health Organization leaders. A Zionist activist and a journalist. Burtzkus assumed that the origins of East-Russian Jews go back to Jews who immigrated to Persia, Armenia, Georgia, Crimea and Kiev, areas he visited in the beginning of the 20th cent.
Attached is a booklet "Origins of Russian Jewry" by Dr. Y. Burtzkus (printout of "HaEver" about Jews and Judaism in Russia. Volume 22, Tel-Aviv, 1977). Three photos 12.5X17.5 cm, two photos 18X24 cm. Good-fair condition. Staining, creases and tears. Corner of one photo is missing.
Photos were probably taken by Dr. Julius (Yehuda) Brutzkus (1870-1951), researcher of Jewish life in ancient Russia, of the Jewish World Health Organization leaders. A Zionist activist and a journalist. Burtzkus assumed that the origins of East-Russian Jews go back to Jews who immigrated to Persia, Armenia, Georgia, Crimea and Kiev, areas he visited in the beginning of the 20th cent.
Attached is a booklet "Origins of Russian Jewry" by Dr. Y. Burtzkus (printout of "HaEver" about Jews and Judaism in Russia. Volume 22, Tel-Aviv, 1977). Three photos 12.5X17.5 cm, two photos 18X24 cm. Good-fair condition. Staining, creases and tears. Corner of one photo is missing.
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $250
Sold for: $313
Including buyer's premium
A large, quality albumen photograph print of the synagogue in the district of Fabric in Temesvar, Hungary (now Timisoara, Romania), probably taken in the 1890s or 1900s.
Photographer: Emil Bernard (his stamp in the lower right corner). Bernard, one of the pioneer photographers in the region, opened a studio in Temesvar at the end of the 19th century.
The synagogue in Temesvar was inaugurated in 1889. Its construction was made possible thanks to donations collected from the Jewish congregation.
Photograph 26x20.5 cm, mounted on a 39x30 cm cardboard matte. Photograph in very good condition; cardboard matte in fair condition, with stains and warping at the top edge.
Photographer: Emil Bernard (his stamp in the lower right corner). Bernard, one of the pioneer photographers in the region, opened a studio in Temesvar at the end of the 19th century.
The synagogue in Temesvar was inaugurated in 1889. Its construction was made possible thanks to donations collected from the Jewish congregation.
Photograph 26x20.5 cm, mounted on a 39x30 cm cardboard matte. Photograph in very good condition; cardboard matte in fair condition, with stains and warping at the top edge.
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Stereoskopickýchobrazů…řada II, obraz 21-50 Palestina, 30 [Palestine, 30 stereoscopic photographs… Series no. 2, Photographs 21-50]. B. Koči. Prague [c. 1907].
30 stereoscopic photographs of Jerusalem sites and landscapes of Jerusalem and its surroundings. Includes a short guide of the photographed sites (Czech), and part of the original envelope. 9X7.9 cm. Good condition.
30 stereoscopic photographs of Jerusalem sites and landscapes of Jerusalem and its surroundings. Includes a short guide of the photographed sites (Czech), and part of the original envelope. 9X7.9 cm. Good condition.
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Forty three stereoscopic photos. Tel-Aviv: Plastika, [1930s]. B/W photos of famous sites, well-known public buildings, archaeological sites, touristic attractions and streets in the cities of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv, etc. Most of the photos are annotated in the plate. 11X8 cm. Good condition.
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $180
Unsold
16 stereoscopic photographs of sites in Jerusalem and its surroundings, [1940-s].
Presented are: the Old City, King David Hotel, National Library, Yaffo Street, Rachel's Tomb, Yad Avshalom etc. Divided on reverse side for postcard use. 16 photographs from a series of 19 photographs. 8X11 cm. Good condition.
Presented are: the Old City, King David Hotel, National Library, Yaffo Street, Rachel's Tomb, Yad Avshalom etc. Divided on reverse side for postcard use. 16 photographs from a series of 19 photographs. 8X11 cm. Good condition.
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $400
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
Ansichten von Palaestina und den juedischen Colonien [Views of Eretz Israel and its colonies], drawn and written by Yesha'ayahu Raffalovich and his partner Moshe Eliyahu Sachs. Photographers in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 1899. Hebrew and German. A booklet of photos from a tour that Raffalovich conducted in Eretz Israel (from Gedera to Metula) in 1898, with his friend Eliyahu (Elijah) Meyers, "American Colony" photographer. The tour was a result of a request that Raffalovich got to prepare an album of Eretz Israel views for the third Zionist Congress to take place a year later in Basel. Several photos are particularly large, on folded plates. An English edition was published in the same year. [45] pp, 57 photo-plates, 17X24 cm. Good condition. Minor damages to margin of leaves and to cover. Original cover. Fine copy, new binding with leather spine and corners, includes an original book-mark.
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $700
Sold for: $875
Including buyer's premium
Palästina im bild [Palestine in Photos]. Photography: Leo Kahn. Published by the Judische Zeitung newspaper (where Kahn worked), Vienna, 1912.
162 plates with professional photos taken by Kahn during his mission to Eretz Israel in 1912, on behalf of the newspaper and in cooperation with the JNF.
Contained in an original folder with a photo on its outer side and an embossed writing in gilded letters. The photos portray settlements and cities, landscape photos and the settlers: children, workers, Yementies; the Hebrew Gymnasium, Bezalel and more. Incomplete set (originally 180 plates). Photos 11.5x8.5cm, printed on plates 20x17cm. Good condition. Folder is torn.
162 plates with professional photos taken by Kahn during his mission to Eretz Israel in 1912, on behalf of the newspaper and in cooperation with the JNF.
Contained in an original folder with a photo on its outer side and an embossed writing in gilded letters. The photos portray settlements and cities, landscape photos and the settlers: children, workers, Yementies; the Hebrew Gymnasium, Bezalel and more. Incomplete set (originally 180 plates). Photos 11.5x8.5cm, printed on plates 20x17cm. Good condition. Folder is torn.
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $2,500
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"Solel Boneh" – Photographs folder. Photographer: Zecharya Kotler (Jerusalem) [1920s].
An luxurious cloth folder which contains 19 professional photos by the photographer Zecharya Kotler, documenting the construction projects of "Solel Boneh" company around the country during its first years of activity. Amongst the photographed buildings: warehouses on Allenby Street, Tel-Aviv; 3 houses on Rothschild Blvd, Tel-Aviv; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; a settlement in Emek Yizrael; paving a road; a cowshed in Kefar Yechezkel; military cemetery in Be'er Sheba; "Beit HaKevutzah "Degania B; cosmetics factory in Binyamina; "Shivat Zion" Yemenite neighborhood in Rishon LeZion, etc. Each photo is mounted on a cardboard sheet of good quality (the boards and photos in different colors), the name of the photographer "Z.Kotler publishing, Jerusalem" is embossed both on the cardboard and on the photos, except for three photos. Eight of the photos are annotated by hand in a fine handwriting (in Hebrew and in English), all the others are annotated by hand on the reverse of the cardboard sheets (in German).
The folder opens with two heavy, black, cardboard sheets. In an artistic handwriting appears the following text: "Solel Boneh, Jewish Workers cooperat. Association for Public Works, Building and Manufacture Ltd. Jerusalem P.O.B. 411." (On one sheet appears the text in Hebrew and on the other in English).
Guy Raz writes about Zecharya Kotler in his book "Israel's photographers from the beginning of photography to our days" (Mappa, 2003): "Zecharya Kotler was active in Jerusalem, as proves the stamp appearing on his photos. In the years 1921-1924 was the photographer of" Solel Boneh" Company. In the album published by the company appear photos by Kotler, most of them 10X15 cm in shades of brown / blue / black. The photos are an example of Kotler's professional and aesthetic manipulation of light." Sizes of photo vary, 7X15.5 cm to 10.5X17 cm, plates 25.5X30.5 cm. Folder 33 cm. Good condition. Stains.
An luxurious cloth folder which contains 19 professional photos by the photographer Zecharya Kotler, documenting the construction projects of "Solel Boneh" company around the country during its first years of activity. Amongst the photographed buildings: warehouses on Allenby Street, Tel-Aviv; 3 houses on Rothschild Blvd, Tel-Aviv; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; a settlement in Emek Yizrael; paving a road; a cowshed in Kefar Yechezkel; military cemetery in Be'er Sheba; "Beit HaKevutzah "Degania B; cosmetics factory in Binyamina; "Shivat Zion" Yemenite neighborhood in Rishon LeZion, etc. Each photo is mounted on a cardboard sheet of good quality (the boards and photos in different colors), the name of the photographer "Z.Kotler publishing, Jerusalem" is embossed both on the cardboard and on the photos, except for three photos. Eight of the photos are annotated by hand in a fine handwriting (in Hebrew and in English), all the others are annotated by hand on the reverse of the cardboard sheets (in German).
The folder opens with two heavy, black, cardboard sheets. In an artistic handwriting appears the following text: "Solel Boneh, Jewish Workers cooperat. Association for Public Works, Building and Manufacture Ltd. Jerusalem P.O.B. 411." (On one sheet appears the text in Hebrew and on the other in English).
Guy Raz writes about Zecharya Kotler in his book "Israel's photographers from the beginning of photography to our days" (Mappa, 2003): "Zecharya Kotler was active in Jerusalem, as proves the stamp appearing on his photos. In the years 1921-1924 was the photographer of" Solel Boneh" Company. In the album published by the company appear photos by Kotler, most of them 10X15 cm in shades of brown / blue / black. The photos are an example of Kotler's professional and aesthetic manipulation of light." Sizes of photo vary, 7X15.5 cm to 10.5X17 cm, plates 25.5X30.5 cm. Folder 33 cm. Good condition. Stains.
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $30,000
Unsold
Archive of the Jewish-German photographer Rudolf Jonas (1898-1972) which includes about 700 negatives and about 1,000 photos, taken in Eretz Israel during the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
Rudolf Jonas was born in Bromberg / Bydgoszcz, Germany; (the city was annexed to Poland in 1919) on December 13, 1898, to a family of fur-traders. During WW I served as a soldier and when the war ended started to study law in Berlin and Marburg where he became familiar with the Zionist movement and as a result came to Palestine on a visit in the 1920s, and documented the country with his camera. Upon the rise of the Nazis to power and the persecution of Jews in Germany, SS soldiers searched his home. When the "Iron Cross" (Eisernes Kreuz) with which he was decorated for service as a soldier in WW I was found between his belongings, one of the soldiers told him: "I recommend that you disappear for a while". Jonas made Aliya to Eretz Israel in September 1933 and started to work as a photographer for "Keren HaYessod" and was even sent to Italy by this organization to visit Jewish communities and collect donations for Zionist activities in Eretz Israel. When WW II ended, he started to work as a professional photographer and as the representative in Israel of "Keystone" international photography agency. During the late 1940s, in the midst of the Independence War, Jonas lived on Gaza Street in Jerusalem and his photos were published in the local and international press (some of his photos were printed in the calendar "Eretz-Israel, Artistic Calendar" for 1948 printed by" Leon the Printer", alongside with photos by leading photographers of the period: Helmar Larsky, Zoltan Kluger, Rudi Weisenstein and Alfred Bernheim).
When the Independence War came to an end Jonas moved to Haifa and continued his work as a journalist and photographer for "Keystone" agency until the 1960s. Even though Jonas lived most of his life in Eretz Israel he was attached with all his heart to his mother tongue and to his homeland carrying all his life the insult that he felt when forced to leave Germany. Jonas died in Haifa in April 1972, childless and with no heirs.
The archive includes about one thousand photos (some double), taken with his Rolleiflex Camera, most of them 6X6 cm. The photos are arranged in tens of envelopes most of them attached to negatives the way Jonas organized and filed them. Some of the envelopes are annotated in Joans's handwriting and most of the photos are ink-stamped on the reverse with Jonas's ink-stamp.
Amongst the locations and events documented are tens of photos of holocaust survivors arriving in Eretz Israel from the Cyprus Detention Camps; activities of schools and educational institutions; national ceremonies and official events, some with the participation of "Yishuv" leaders (David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett and others); photos of "Olim" disembarking boats; establishment of "Tower and Stckade" settlements (such as the establishment of Kibbutz Dalia); the founding ceremony of Kibbutz Baram and the ancient synagogue in Baram; housing projects for "Olim" in Haifa and numerous photos of Haifa and the vicinity; photos of the unveiling ceremony of the "Avoda ve Hagana" memorial by the sculptor Batya Lishansky in Kibbutz Hulda (1929); photos of Rosh Hanikra, Sassa, Rechovot, Kalia (1938), Ancient Acre, Tel-Aviv, Ramla, Ben-Shemen, Afula, Atlit, interesting photos of the Independence War period including photos of Peki'in and its ancient synagogue; iron and metal industries, "Asis" factory and "Shemen" industries in Haifa; leaders of the Druze on Mount Carmel; photos of the Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount. Tens of photos documenting the visit of the UNSCOP committee – United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (1947) to Eretz Israel, in the Arab countries in the area and in Europe (where the committee visited DPC's) – it seems that as a "Keystone" agency worker Jonas accompanied the delegation.
The archive also includes several letters sent to Jonas and copies of letters that Jonas sent, some large photos to which handwritten letters are attached, several photos of Jonas, sketch for a business-card (see photo-copy) and a copy of a 1948 calendar with photos taken by Jonas.
Attached is a certificate issued by a lawyer specializing in copyrights certifying that the photos were taken prior to the 1950s or during the 1950s and are not subject to any copyright limitations. The holder of these photos and negatives can use them as he pleases.
Literature: Und sie haben Deutschland verlassen... müssen, Fotografen und ihre Bilder, 1928-1997. [Projektleitung]: Klaus Honeff, Frank Weyers. Bonn: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Landschaftsverband Rheinland, 1997, pp 269-271.
Israel's Photographers, from early days of photography to the present day, by Guy Raz. Tel-Aviv: "Mappa", 2003, p. 113.
Rudolf Jonas was born in Bromberg / Bydgoszcz, Germany; (the city was annexed to Poland in 1919) on December 13, 1898, to a family of fur-traders. During WW I served as a soldier and when the war ended started to study law in Berlin and Marburg where he became familiar with the Zionist movement and as a result came to Palestine on a visit in the 1920s, and documented the country with his camera. Upon the rise of the Nazis to power and the persecution of Jews in Germany, SS soldiers searched his home. When the "Iron Cross" (Eisernes Kreuz) with which he was decorated for service as a soldier in WW I was found between his belongings, one of the soldiers told him: "I recommend that you disappear for a while". Jonas made Aliya to Eretz Israel in September 1933 and started to work as a photographer for "Keren HaYessod" and was even sent to Italy by this organization to visit Jewish communities and collect donations for Zionist activities in Eretz Israel. When WW II ended, he started to work as a professional photographer and as the representative in Israel of "Keystone" international photography agency. During the late 1940s, in the midst of the Independence War, Jonas lived on Gaza Street in Jerusalem and his photos were published in the local and international press (some of his photos were printed in the calendar "Eretz-Israel, Artistic Calendar" for 1948 printed by" Leon the Printer", alongside with photos by leading photographers of the period: Helmar Larsky, Zoltan Kluger, Rudi Weisenstein and Alfred Bernheim).
When the Independence War came to an end Jonas moved to Haifa and continued his work as a journalist and photographer for "Keystone" agency until the 1960s. Even though Jonas lived most of his life in Eretz Israel he was attached with all his heart to his mother tongue and to his homeland carrying all his life the insult that he felt when forced to leave Germany. Jonas died in Haifa in April 1972, childless and with no heirs.
The archive includes about one thousand photos (some double), taken with his Rolleiflex Camera, most of them 6X6 cm. The photos are arranged in tens of envelopes most of them attached to negatives the way Jonas organized and filed them. Some of the envelopes are annotated in Joans's handwriting and most of the photos are ink-stamped on the reverse with Jonas's ink-stamp.
Amongst the locations and events documented are tens of photos of holocaust survivors arriving in Eretz Israel from the Cyprus Detention Camps; activities of schools and educational institutions; national ceremonies and official events, some with the participation of "Yishuv" leaders (David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett and others); photos of "Olim" disembarking boats; establishment of "Tower and Stckade" settlements (such as the establishment of Kibbutz Dalia); the founding ceremony of Kibbutz Baram and the ancient synagogue in Baram; housing projects for "Olim" in Haifa and numerous photos of Haifa and the vicinity; photos of the unveiling ceremony of the "Avoda ve Hagana" memorial by the sculptor Batya Lishansky in Kibbutz Hulda (1929); photos of Rosh Hanikra, Sassa, Rechovot, Kalia (1938), Ancient Acre, Tel-Aviv, Ramla, Ben-Shemen, Afula, Atlit, interesting photos of the Independence War period including photos of Peki'in and its ancient synagogue; iron and metal industries, "Asis" factory and "Shemen" industries in Haifa; leaders of the Druze on Mount Carmel; photos of the Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount. Tens of photos documenting the visit of the UNSCOP committee – United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (1947) to Eretz Israel, in the Arab countries in the area and in Europe (where the committee visited DPC's) – it seems that as a "Keystone" agency worker Jonas accompanied the delegation.
The archive also includes several letters sent to Jonas and copies of letters that Jonas sent, some large photos to which handwritten letters are attached, several photos of Jonas, sketch for a business-card (see photo-copy) and a copy of a 1948 calendar with photos taken by Jonas.
Attached is a certificate issued by a lawyer specializing in copyrights certifying that the photos were taken prior to the 1950s or during the 1950s and are not subject to any copyright limitations. The holder of these photos and negatives can use them as he pleases.
Literature: Und sie haben Deutschland verlassen... müssen, Fotografen und ihre Bilder, 1928-1997. [Projektleitung]: Klaus Honeff, Frank Weyers. Bonn: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Landschaftsverband Rheinland, 1997, pp 269-271.
Israel's Photographers, from early days of photography to the present day, by Guy Raz. Tel-Aviv: "Mappa", 2003, p. 113.
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