Auction 63 - Rare and Important Items
Collection of Photographs by Tsadok Bassan – "Etz Haim" / "Moshav Zekenim" / Early Studio Photographs
Opening: $1,800
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
Sold for: $5,250
Including buyer's premium
37 photographs by the photographer Tsadok Bassan. Jerusalem and other places in Palestine. [early 20th century – 1930s; most photographs are from the 1910s and 1920s].
Tsadok Bassan (1882-1956), first Jewish photographer born in Palestine and the "court photographer" of the Old Yishuv community in Jerusalem. Studied in "Etz Haim" Yeshivah, and at the same time attempted to paint and learned photography with the photographer Edelstein. In 1900 – at the young age of 18 – he purchased the studio of the photographer Yeshayahu Rephaelovich in the Old City, and later opened a studio – "Zalmaniya" – of his own, on Ethiopia street. Bassan documented mainly the life of the Old Yishuv and its institutions: Yeshivahs, orphanages, soup-kitchens, hospitals, cemeteries and photographed quite often families and portraits of rabbis.
This collection includes photographs from the first decades of the 20th century, among them some which were taken when Bassan just started his career as a photographer, and on a variety of subjects. All of the photographs bear the photographer's stamp (some embossed on the corner, some embossed on the cardboard corner and some appear on the back of the photographs).
Among the photographs: a group of elderly people studying Talmud, girls from "Beit HaYetomot HaKlali" near the Western Wall, students in Talmud Torah "Etz Haim", children playing in a yard in "Mea Shearim", elderly people in their room in "Moshav Zekenim", opening ceremony of "Beit Halperin" (additional building for "Moshav Zekenim") in the presence of Rabbi Ya'akov Meir, photographs of Rabbi Yosef Haim Sonnenfeld, family photographs and studio photographs – some in costumes – of Zaksh and Bardaki families from Jerusalem and other families, photographs from a journey to the Jordan River, to Jericho and the Dead Sea, group photographs of students in religious schools in Jerusalem, and more.
Size varies, approx. 9 X 14 to 22.5 X 17 cm. 22 photographs are of a postcard size and some are even divided on the back to be used as a postcard. 11 photographs are attached to cardboard sheets. Good overall condition, varies. Tears at corners of a number of photographs and cardboard sheets (some repaired).
Tsadok Bassan (1882-1956), first Jewish photographer born in Palestine and the "court photographer" of the Old Yishuv community in Jerusalem. Studied in "Etz Haim" Yeshivah, and at the same time attempted to paint and learned photography with the photographer Edelstein. In 1900 – at the young age of 18 – he purchased the studio of the photographer Yeshayahu Rephaelovich in the Old City, and later opened a studio – "Zalmaniya" – of his own, on Ethiopia street. Bassan documented mainly the life of the Old Yishuv and its institutions: Yeshivahs, orphanages, soup-kitchens, hospitals, cemeteries and photographed quite often families and portraits of rabbis.
This collection includes photographs from the first decades of the 20th century, among them some which were taken when Bassan just started his career as a photographer, and on a variety of subjects. All of the photographs bear the photographer's stamp (some embossed on the corner, some embossed on the cardboard corner and some appear on the back of the photographs).
Among the photographs: a group of elderly people studying Talmud, girls from "Beit HaYetomot HaKlali" near the Western Wall, students in Talmud Torah "Etz Haim", children playing in a yard in "Mea Shearim", elderly people in their room in "Moshav Zekenim", opening ceremony of "Beit Halperin" (additional building for "Moshav Zekenim") in the presence of Rabbi Ya'akov Meir, photographs of Rabbi Yosef Haim Sonnenfeld, family photographs and studio photographs – some in costumes – of Zaksh and Bardaki families from Jerusalem and other families, photographs from a journey to the Jordan River, to Jericho and the Dead Sea, group photographs of students in religious schools in Jerusalem, and more.
Size varies, approx. 9 X 14 to 22.5 X 17 cm. 22 photographs are of a postcard size and some are even divided on the back to be used as a postcard. 11 photographs are attached to cardboard sheets. Good overall condition, varies. Tears at corners of a number of photographs and cardboard sheets (some repaired).
Photographs - Palestine
Photographs - Palestine