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
"To My Friends in the Mizrachi (Internal!)" – Malchiel Gruenwald's Original Publication with Allegations against Israel Kastner – Self-Published Pamphlet, Printed in Several Hundred Copies, August, 1952
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
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Issue No. 17 of the pamphlet "Letters to My Friends in the Mizrachi (Internal!)", by Malchiel Gruenwald. Jerusalem, 1.8.1952.
Four-page pamphlet. The first page features a lengthy article, accusing Israel Kastner of cooperating with Nazi authorities in preparing the ground for the extermination of Hungarian Jewry, and helping a Nazi war criminal escape persecution (opens with the lines: "the smell of a cadaver stings my nostrils! This'll be a prime funeral! Dr. Rudolf Kastner must be eliminated!"). The pamphlet "Letters to My Friends in the Mizrachi" was self-published by Malchiel Gruenwald, and circulated in no more than a few hundred copies (a postmark and a note with the recipient's name are pasted to the margins; name of recipient erased). Issue No. 17 reached the Attorney General of Israel, Haim Cohn. Following Cohn's advice, Kastner filed a lawsuit against Gruenwald, accusing him of slander. The process that followed soon became one of the best-known trials in Israel’s history – the "Kastner trial".
[2] ff. (four printed pages), approx. 34.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Minor stains, creases and horizontal fold line. Tears along margins and fold line.
Four-page pamphlet. The first page features a lengthy article, accusing Israel Kastner of cooperating with Nazi authorities in preparing the ground for the extermination of Hungarian Jewry, and helping a Nazi war criminal escape persecution (opens with the lines: "the smell of a cadaver stings my nostrils! This'll be a prime funeral! Dr. Rudolf Kastner must be eliminated!"). The pamphlet "Letters to My Friends in the Mizrachi" was self-published by Malchiel Gruenwald, and circulated in no more than a few hundred copies (a postmark and a note with the recipient's name are pasted to the margins; name of recipient erased). Issue No. 17 reached the Attorney General of Israel, Haim Cohn. Following Cohn's advice, Kastner filed a lawsuit against Gruenwald, accusing him of slander. The process that followed soon became one of the best-known trials in Israel’s history – the "Kastner trial".
[2] ff. (four printed pages), approx. 34.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Minor stains, creases and horizontal fold line. Tears along margins and fold line.
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