22 karat gold medal designed by Marc Chagall. Struck by Argor, Switzerland. Israel, 1979.
Obverse: a work by Marc Chagall, made especially for this medal as a donation to the "Korat Gag" enterprise initiated by Prime Minister Menachem Begin's office and designed to assist young couples to buy an apartment. Seen on the right is Moses, with the Tablets of the Law in his hands, behind a five-branched Menorah. To the left is Jerusalem with overhanging flowering branch. Legend: "For a light of the nations" (Isaiah 42, 6). Signed "Marc Chagall" in Hebrew and English and dated 1978.
Reverse: verse from Isaiah (from which the medal's title was taken): "I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations", in Hebrew and English. This side dated 5739 and 1979. Legend indicating place of issue, Jerusalem, in Hebrew and English. Additional legend: "Peace" in Hebrew, Arabic and English.
The medal is placed in an acrylic glass case originally enclosed with it.
Diameter: 60 mm. Good condition.

Two booklets documenting the activity of the Odessa Committee ("Society for the Support of Jewish Farmers and Artisans in Syria and Palestine") of the Chovevei Zion Organization. St. Petersburg, 1890-1891.
● Regulations for supporting Jewish farmers and artisans in Syria and Palestine. St. Petersburg: V. Ettinger Press, 1890. Hebrew and Russian.
Listing the society's aims, sources of income, membership parameters, dates of the general assembly, the committee's responsibilities, etc.
6, 9 pp., 23.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Horizontal fold line. Creases. Closed and open tears to edges (mostly reinforced with tape). New leather binding, with the original cover. The back cover (with the Russian title) is torn; its upper half is missing.
● List of members of the Society for the Support of Jewish Farmers and Artisans in Syria and Palestine for 1890. St. Petersburg: Eliezer Behrman and Miriam Rabinowitz Press, 1891.
A list of 4630 members who had donated to the Society.
Not in OCLC.
68 pp., 21.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Small tears to edges. Notation on title page. New leather binding, without the cover.

Kinor Zion (Violin of Zion), edited by the "Tushiya" publishing house. Warsaw, 1900.
Anthology of Hebrew poetry - biblical poems, prayers and Piyyutim, medieval Spanish-Jewish poetry, early modern and modern Hebrew poetry up until the poetry of Bialik and Tchernichovsky, including the poems HaTikvah and Mishmar HaYarden by Naftali Herz Imber.
The title page is followed by a leaf with a printed dedication: "For the fourth Zionist Congress in London" – the congress, which was the largest yet, took place in London in August 1900.
The book is bound in an original pink printed cover, with an illustration and the inscription "Dedicated in honor of the fourth Zionist congress in London" (Hebrew) and in an original binding of the "Tushiya" publishing house, with an embossed inscription on the front cover: "Book of the Century of Hebrew Bibliotheca" (Hebrew).
VI, 118 pp. 18.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes. Owner's stamp inside. New endpapers.