Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

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

Collection of Photographs – Hebrew Schools – Lithuania and Belarus, 1920s-1930s – The Hebrew Gymnasium in Marijampolė, the Tarbut School and More

Opening: $200
Sold for: $1,188
Including buyer's premium
Twenty-five photographs of students and teachers in Hebrew educational institutions in Lithuania and Belarus (and elsewhere?). 1920s-1930s. Including: • Picture of the third class of "The Hebrew Gymnasium in Marijampolė" (1924). • Class photograph, Tarbut school in Kybartai (1938). • Three class pictures, Tarbut school in Nesvizh (1932-1936). • Photographs of Moshe Kwint, teacher in the Hebrew gymnasium of Vilkomir (in the company of students, during trips, as a young student). • Photograph of the winner of the masquerade of HaShomer Hatza'ir in Nesvizh. • And more. Two of the photographs depict a group on board SS Polonia, which carried immigrants from the port of Gdynia, Poland to Palestine (dated by hand to January 1938, one photograph with the stamp of the ship photographer Boleslaw Furmanek). 25 photographs. Mostly with postcard backs, 14X9 cm; some smaller. Condition varies. Good-fair overall condition. Stains. creases, small tears and abrasions, mostly to edges. Dedicated or captioned by hand on verso (Hebrew and Yiddish). Enclosed: several items related to teacher Moshe Kwint: a postcard sent to him from Palanga, 1928; letter of recommendation indicating that he is a member of the "United Socialist Zionist Party" in Lithuania (with the inked stamp of the "Yiddishe Bildungs-Gezelshaft oifen Nomen fun Dr. N. Sirkin" organization); invitation to a Hebrew gymnasium student conference in Kovno (1953).
Europe – Regulatios for Jewish Communities, Legal Documents, Patents of Nobility, Manuscripts, Photographs
Europe – Regulatios for Jewish Communities, Legal Documents, Patents of Nobility, Manuscripts, Photographs