Online Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Part I

Collection of Printed Items – "Olei Hagardom", 1938-1947 – Three Obituaries, Memorial Postcard and the Front Page of a "Special Newspaper", with a Review of the First Trial

Opening: $100
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Five printed items related to "Olei Hagardom". Palestine 1938 and 1947.
1-3. Three obituaries: • Obituary announcing the death of Shlomo Ben Yosef (presumably, 1938). • Obituary announcing the deaths of Dov Gruner, Dov Rosenbaum, Mordechai Elkoshi and Eliezer Kashani (issued by the Irgun, 1947). • Obituary announcing the deaths of Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani (issued by the Irgun, 1947).
4. Memorial postcard for Shlomo Ben Yosef, with a postmortem picture. Published by the General Managers of the Tel Chai Fund (ca. 1938).
5. The external spread (the first and last leaves) of the issue of "Iton Meyuchad" (Special Newspaper) from the eve of Shavu'ot 1938. On the front page, pictures and reports from the trial of Shlomo Ben Yosef, Avraham Shein and Shalom Zurabin.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains, creases and fold lines. Closed and open tears to edges (most of them small, some restored). Worming to the obituaries and postcard (pieces of paper mounted on verso).
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Jewish Underground Movements, Jewish Immigration, British Detention Camps in Cyprus
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Jewish Underground Movements, Jewish Immigration, British Detention Camps in Cyprus