Auction 73 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

Collection of Postcards – Jewish Figures – Eastern Europe and North Africa

Opening: $800
Unsold
83 postcards with paintings and photographs of Jews engaged in different occupations. Various publishers. Europe and North Africa, [first decades of the 20th century].
The postcards present paintings and photographs of Jews in various towns throughout Europe, in North Africa and in Palestine, among them: Jews at prayer and during study; Jews in the streets of Carlsbad, Marienbad, Lida, Stanislawow, Lodz and other cities; "Jewish characters" from Eastern Europe, Bukhara and North Africa (some postcards are titled, for example, "Talmud Chochem", "Schacharis" and "Git Shabes"); Jewish craftsmen and merchants at work – knife sharpener, fabric merchant, Yemenite porter, peddlers and silversmiths in Tbilisi, Jewish families by their homes, and more.
20 postcards are undivided. A small photograph is pasted on one postcard.
Enclosed is a printed card which is not a postcard.
Average size: 9X14 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Some creases. 38 postcards were used. Traces of gluing to album on verso of one postcard.
Souvenirs from Palestine, Postcards and "Shanah Tovah" Greeting Cards
Souvenirs from Palestine, Postcards and "Shanah Tovah" Greeting Cards