Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

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

"Economic Atlas of Palestine" – Davis Trietsch – Berlin, 1926

Opening: $400
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
[Palästina Wirtschaftsatlas (Economic Atlas of Palestine), by Davis Trietsch. Berlin: Orient, 1926]. German. Thirty color plates (four of them folding), consisting of a broad assortment of diagrams, graphs, and maps providing a wealth of information regarding Palestine and the Jewish people (historic boundaries of the Land of Israel, population growth and density, employment, immigration, industry, imports and exports, and more). Davis Trietsch (1870-1935), editor, author, and Zionist activist, native of Germany. Member of the Greater Executive Committee of the World Zionist Organization (WZO), where he represented "HaFraktziah HaDemokratit" (an opposition party within the WZO that challenged Theodor Herzl's vision). Dedicated much of his time to the issue of Jewish settlement, and proposed settling Jews on the island of Cyprus as an alternative to the Uganda Plan. Translated and published both poetry and prose, and was among the editors of the monthly journals "Ost und West" and "Palästina." Also authored the yearbook "Palästina Handbuch, " and was one of the founders of the Jüdischer Verlag publishing house. Enclosed: Page containing the table of contents to the "Atlas der Jüdischen Welt" ("Atlas of the Jewish World"), an additional atlas Trietsch published in Berlin in 1926, which included several of the plates appearing in the present album. [30] loose plates, 38X25 to 75X38 cm. No table of contents. Good condition. Minor blemishes to several plates, mostly at edges. Blank paper cover, worn and torn (in half).
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Illigal Immigration, British Detention Camps, The Establishment of the State of Israel
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Illigal Immigration, British Detention Camps, The Establishment of the State of Israel