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
Political Broadsides and Publications – Bund, OZET, The Zionist Organization in Russia – Early Publication of the Balfour Declaration in Russia, and Reactions to the 1929 Palestine Riots
Opening: $300
Sold for: $425
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Six political broadsides and publications by Jewish and Zionist organizations. Russia and Eastern Europe: early 20th century to 1930s. Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish.
1. "Manifest of the Zionist Center to the Hebrew People" (Hebrew) – a broadside featuring a Hebrew translation of the Balfour declaration, and a lengthy manifesto, encouraging Jews to join the Zionist movement; among the first publications of the Balfour declaration in Russia, published during the Communist Revolution. Signed in print: "the Central Committee of the Zionist Organization in Russia, " November 11, 1917 (the declaration was signed on November 2, and news of it reached Russia a few days later, when many of the Jewish printing houses were already shut down by the Bolsheviks.)
2. "Khaver un bruder! Di blutike kampen in Eretz Yisroel hern nit oyf" [Yiddish: Friend and brother! The bloody battles in Eretz Israel did not cease] – a leaflet jointly published by various Zionist movements in Poland, in reaction to the 1929 Palestine Riots: HeHalutz, Hashomer Hatzair, Berit Trumpeldor, Gordonia, HeHalutz HaMizrachi, and other organizations. Vilnius Szymanowicz Press, [1929.]
3. "Tsu di Yiddishe Folks Massen!" [to the Jewish Masses!, ] Anti-Zionist booklet, published by the Polish Bund, blaming the Jewish Yishuv for the 1929 Palestine Riots. Warsaw: M. Beser, 1929.
Rare. Not listed in OCLC.
4. Yiddish broadside issued by OZET (in Yiddish: GEZERD – The Society for the Settlement of Jewish Toilers on the Land.] Moscow: ЭМЕС Press, [ca. mid- to late 1920s].
5. "Jews of Białystok!, " broadside issued by "the organizing committee of reception in honor of Hayim Nahman Bialik in Białystok. Białystok: Litograf, 1931. Hebrew and Yiddish.
6. Announcement by the "Warszawskie Biuro Informacyjne dla emigrantów zydow" [the Warsaw Bureau of Information for Jewish Immigrants.] Warsaw: undated (presumably, early 20th century.)
Size and condition vary.
1. "Manifest of the Zionist Center to the Hebrew People" (Hebrew) – a broadside featuring a Hebrew translation of the Balfour declaration, and a lengthy manifesto, encouraging Jews to join the Zionist movement; among the first publications of the Balfour declaration in Russia, published during the Communist Revolution. Signed in print: "the Central Committee of the Zionist Organization in Russia, " November 11, 1917 (the declaration was signed on November 2, and news of it reached Russia a few days later, when many of the Jewish printing houses were already shut down by the Bolsheviks.)
2. "Khaver un bruder! Di blutike kampen in Eretz Yisroel hern nit oyf" [Yiddish: Friend and brother! The bloody battles in Eretz Israel did not cease] – a leaflet jointly published by various Zionist movements in Poland, in reaction to the 1929 Palestine Riots: HeHalutz, Hashomer Hatzair, Berit Trumpeldor, Gordonia, HeHalutz HaMizrachi, and other organizations. Vilnius Szymanowicz Press, [1929.]
3. "Tsu di Yiddishe Folks Massen!" [to the Jewish Masses!, ] Anti-Zionist booklet, published by the Polish Bund, blaming the Jewish Yishuv for the 1929 Palestine Riots. Warsaw: M. Beser, 1929.
Rare. Not listed in OCLC.
4. Yiddish broadside issued by OZET (in Yiddish: GEZERD – The Society for the Settlement of Jewish Toilers on the Land.] Moscow: ЭМЕС Press, [ca. mid- to late 1920s].
5. "Jews of Białystok!, " broadside issued by "the organizing committee of reception in honor of Hayim Nahman Bialik in Białystok. Białystok: Litograf, 1931. Hebrew and Yiddish.
6. Announcement by the "Warszawskie Biuro Informacyjne dla emigrantów zydow" [the Warsaw Bureau of Information for Jewish Immigrants.] Warsaw: undated (presumably, early 20th century.)
Size and condition vary.
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