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
Collection of Ephemera – First Assembly of Representatives and the Jewish National Council – Early 1920s – Mizrachi Representative Rabbi Moshe HaMeiri Ostrovsky
Opening: $300
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Large collection of ephemera pertaining to the operations of the Jewish National Council and the First Assembly of Representatives. Jerusalem, early 1920s. Hebrew.
• Roughly 45 invitations and notices – most of them printed and signed by the secretaries and directors of the Jewish National Council – sent to Rabbi Moshe HaMeiri Ostrovsky, representative of the Mizrachi organization: notice of an appointment with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, an urgent invitation to a meeting with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, invitations to meetings regarding issues of security in the moshavot, aliyah and absorption, establishment of the Jewish Agency, and more. Among the signatories: Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and David Yellin.
• Delegate's card (no. 8) for the First Assembly of Representatives of the Jews in Palestine, issued to Rabbi Ostrovsky. Marked with the inked stamps of the directorate of the Jewish National Council (David Yellin, Dr. Jacob Thon, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi), with discount coupons for the purchase of train tickets.
• "Rules and Regulations for the Elections to the Assembly of Representatives of the Jews in Palestine, " printed broadside issued in time for the first elections held (in 1920) by the Jewish Yishuv. Tel Aviv: Ahdut Press, [ca. 1920]. With information regarding the right to vote, the right to submit candidacy, special privileges for soldiers of the Jewish Legion, and more.
• "Circular to the Haredi Communities in Palestine!", printed broadside issued by the "Council of Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] Delegates" – an announcement of their impending withdrawal from the Jewish National Council. Nisan, 5682 [1922].
• Entrance ticket to the "Founding Assembly" in Jaffa (June 17, 1918), hand signed by Dr. Jacob Thon (the Founding Assembly gathered three times in the course of the First World War, and was the Palestine Jewish community's representative body in dealings with the British. Following its third meeting, the "Assembly of Representatives" was established).
• And more.
Approx. 60 items. Size and condition vary.
• Roughly 45 invitations and notices – most of them printed and signed by the secretaries and directors of the Jewish National Council – sent to Rabbi Moshe HaMeiri Ostrovsky, representative of the Mizrachi organization: notice of an appointment with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, an urgent invitation to a meeting with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, invitations to meetings regarding issues of security in the moshavot, aliyah and absorption, establishment of the Jewish Agency, and more. Among the signatories: Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and David Yellin.
• Delegate's card (no. 8) for the First Assembly of Representatives of the Jews in Palestine, issued to Rabbi Ostrovsky. Marked with the inked stamps of the directorate of the Jewish National Council (David Yellin, Dr. Jacob Thon, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi), with discount coupons for the purchase of train tickets.
• "Rules and Regulations for the Elections to the Assembly of Representatives of the Jews in Palestine, " printed broadside issued in time for the first elections held (in 1920) by the Jewish Yishuv. Tel Aviv: Ahdut Press, [ca. 1920]. With information regarding the right to vote, the right to submit candidacy, special privileges for soldiers of the Jewish Legion, and more.
• "Circular to the Haredi Communities in Palestine!", printed broadside issued by the "Council of Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] Delegates" – an announcement of their impending withdrawal from the Jewish National Council. Nisan, 5682 [1922].
• Entrance ticket to the "Founding Assembly" in Jaffa (June 17, 1918), hand signed by Dr. Jacob Thon (the Founding Assembly gathered three times in the course of the First World War, and was the Palestine Jewish community's representative body in dealings with the British. Following its third meeting, the "Assembly of Representatives" was established).
• And more.
Approx. 60 items. Size and condition vary.
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