Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
Hand-Drawn Poster – A Lecture by Arnold Zweig on the Subject of the Battle of Stalingrad – Haifa, 1944 – Organization of Austrian Exiles "Free Austrian World Movement"
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,125
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"The turning point of the war, Stalingrad" – a hand-drawn poster advertising a lecture by Arnold Zweig, held in "Clubhouse Carmelia" vis a vis "Carmelia Court". Haifa: 10 December, [1944]. English.
Hand-made poster (mixed media on paper); the illustration depicts a helmeted skull, wearing a golden monocle, above a snow-covered road. The names of the organizations responsible for organizing the lecture – the Free Austrian World Movement and The Friends of Austria and Austrian Society – are written on the bottom of the poster.
The poster is dated in pencil on verso; an additional penciled note on verso: "Goldstein-Gojan PINX.". The poster was presumably drawn by Jean Goldstein (Romanian-Jewish artist, born in 1918; his first exhibition in Palestine took place in 1947, in the Mikra-Studio art gallery in Tel Aviv).
Author Arnold Zweig (1887-1968) was one of the most vocal opponents of fascism among German Jewry. Following the public burning of his books, Zweig left his homeland Germany, and emigrated to Palestine, where he settled in Haifa. There, he gave many public lectures, condemning Fascism and Nationalism, all the while insisting on lecturing in his native German only. His sole devotion to the German language was heavily criticized in the Jewish Yishuv, and in the late 1940s he decided to leave, and resettled in Germany.
Approx. 50X35 cm. Good-fair condition. Abrasions and pinholes to edges. Minor open tear to top. Some creases. Stains to verso.
Hand-made poster (mixed media on paper); the illustration depicts a helmeted skull, wearing a golden monocle, above a snow-covered road. The names of the organizations responsible for organizing the lecture – the Free Austrian World Movement and The Friends of Austria and Austrian Society – are written on the bottom of the poster.
The poster is dated in pencil on verso; an additional penciled note on verso: "Goldstein-Gojan PINX.". The poster was presumably drawn by Jean Goldstein (Romanian-Jewish artist, born in 1918; his first exhibition in Palestine took place in 1947, in the Mikra-Studio art gallery in Tel Aviv).
Author Arnold Zweig (1887-1968) was one of the most vocal opponents of fascism among German Jewry. Following the public burning of his books, Zweig left his homeland Germany, and emigrated to Palestine, where he settled in Haifa. There, he gave many public lectures, condemning Fascism and Nationalism, all the while insisting on lecturing in his native German only. His sole devotion to the German language was heavily criticized in the Jewish Yishuv, and in the late 1940s he decided to leave, and resettled in Germany.
Approx. 50X35 cm. Good-fair condition. Abrasions and pinholes to edges. Minor open tear to top. Some creases. Stains to verso.
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Underground Fighters, Illigal Immifration, the Establishment of the State of Israel, Israeli Culture
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Underground Fighters, Illigal Immifration, the Establishment of the State of Israel, Israeli Culture