Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture

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Five Picture Discs – "Kinor" Series of Jewish Music – Paris

Opening: $200
Sold for: $275
Including buyer's premium

Five picture discs – vinyl records with illustrations printed on the playing surfaces. Jewish songs performed by Ben Baruch and Sigmund Berland. Paris: Saturne, [ca. 1950]. From the "Kinor" series of Jewish music. Hebrew and Yiddish.
Five vinyl records:
1. Ben Baruch – Wie Ahin Soll Ich Gehn / S'wet Geschen (an illustration of Jewish immigrants arriving to Palestine on one side of the record, and a portrait of the singer on the other).
2. Ben Baruch – Rouach / El Mole Rachamim (landscape with a verse from Isaiah on one side, and the cruse of oil and stars, on the other).
3. Ben Baruch – Farzweiflung / Haben Jakir (a Jewish figure on one side, and a portrait of the singer on the other).
4. Ben Baruch – Zochrenou Lachaim / Zechor (Shofar blowing on one side, and Rembrandt van Rijn's Sacrifice of Isaac on the other).
5. Sigmund Berland – Israel / Sai Gesind Mame (a map of Palestine on one side, and an agricultural landscape with a Star of David on the other).
Enclosed: a cardboard record bearing the picture of Ben Gurion during the declaration of independence on one side, and the emblem of the State of Israel on the other (without the word "Israel" on its lower part).

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