Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture

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"Unzer Ziel" – Bound Volume of Issues – Organ of "Hatzohar" in Austria – Linz, 1948-1949 – Declaration of Independence Issue

Opening: $700
Sold for: $1,000
Including buyer's premium
24 issues of the newspaper "Unzer Ziel" [Our Aim], newspaper of the Austrian chapter of the Brit HaTzionim HaRevizionistim, a Revisionist Zionist organization. Second year, issues 1-24 (bound together). Linz, January 1948 to January 1949. Yiddish.
Volume of bound issues of the second year of publication of "Unzer Ziel" (last year of publication), published by the Zionist Revisionist movement, for holocaust survivors ("Sh'erit HaPletah") in Austria. Issues accompanied by pictures and illustrations (Olei HaGardom, Irgun fighters in the 1948 war, Warsaw ghetto, and more.)
Issue no. 13 (May 19, 1948) features a detailed account of the declaration of independence of the State of Israel.
Hardcover, with label pasted onto front board – the name of the newspaper and its logo, which was designed to resemble the symbol of the Irgun, a map of Greater Israel, and years of publication – 1947-1949.
24 issues bound together (most comprise six pages). One leaf (in issue no. 17) bound out of sequence. Approx. 45 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor creases. Marginal tears to some leaves (mostly minor; some restored tears). Two leaves detached. Cover worn, with marginal abrasions.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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