Chagall, by Raymond Cogniat. [Paris]: Flammarion, [1965?]. French.
Monograph on Marc Chagall, accompanied by dozens of reproductions of his works. On the first page is a large illustration in color pencils, made by Chagall, with an inscription in his handwriting: "Pour Edith et Maurice Schlogel, en souvenir, Marc Chagall" [To Edith and Maurice Schlogel, a souvenir, Marc Chagall]. Dated 1966.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985), a Russian-French artist, is considered by many the greatest Jewish modern painter. Chagall was born to a Hassidic family in Liozna (then in Belarus), the eldest of nine siblings. When his mother asked his first art teacher, the painter Yehuda Pen, whether her son could earn a living from painting, Pen looked at Chagall's sketches and told her: "Yes, he has some ability". At the age of twenty, he was accepted to study art in St. Petersburg (during this period, he painted for the first time the figure of the Fiddler on the Roof, after which the famous musical is named) and in 1914 married the writer Bella Rosenfeld, who became known as one of his greatest sources of inspiration. After the October Revolution, Chagall was appointed commissar of arts for the Vitebsk district, where he established an art school and a museum. Among the teachers of the school were the artist El Lissitzky and the painter Yehuda Pen – Chagall's first teacher.
In 1920, Chagall moved to Western Europe and after a short stay in Berlin settled in Paris. During this period, he created the important series "My Life", which documented the views of the Jewish town, and the series of bible illustrations. In 1941, about two years after the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Chagall succeeded in escaping to the USA with the assistance of the American journalist Varian Fry. For several years he lived in New York, returning to France after the war, where he remained until his death.
Chagall's works of art, which embrace a wide variety of fields and styles (prints, theater sets and costumes, sculpture and ceramics, tapestry, mosaics, stained glass, and more), are exhibited in leading museums and galleries, in the opera houses of New York and Paris, in the Mainz Cathedral, in the Knesset (in The Chagall Lounge) and elsewhere. The painter Pablo Picasso said of his work: "When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is".
95, [1] pp, approx. 28 cm. With original dust-jacket. Good condition. Minor blemishes. A small tear to edge of dust-jacket.

A photographic group portrait of Zionist leaders and delegates to the eighth Zionist Congress which took place in Hague in 1907.
The photograph is mounted on paper which is in turn mounted on cardboard. Printed on the cardboard are the caption "VIIIter Zionistischen Congress, Haag 1907" and details of the English photographers: "Photographed Jointly by Adolph Langfier / Russell & Sons… London".
Group portrait including several prominent Zionist leader and dignitaries such as David Wolfson, Nahum Sokolow, Shalom Aleichem, Boris Schatz, Yechiel Chlenov, Jacob Itzhak Niemirower and others.
Photograph: 29.5X19.5 cm. Cardboard: 38X30 cm. Good condition. A few stains on the photograph. Stains and blemishes to cardboard. Cardboard cut at top and left edges.

Sixteen postcards that were printed for the Zionist Congresses and postcards that were sent during the congresses. Basel, Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary), Prague, Zurich, Geneva and Jerusalem, 1903-1955.
1-2. Two postcards from the sixth Zionist congress (Basel, 1903). One of them bears a photograph of a group of Jewish gymnasts in the congress, Vienna: "Zion", 1903. The second bears a photograph of Herzl in the company of Jewish journalists in the congress, published by "S.I.W".
3. Postcard of the tenth congress (Basel, 1911). Köln: Jüdischer Verlag, 1911. Riemer no. 27.
4. Postcard with the photograph of the general assembly of the tenth congress (Basel, 1911). Basel: Robert Spreng, 1911. Bearing the stamp of the congress.
5-8. Four postcards of the 12th congress (Carlsbad, 1921), depicting works by Hermann Struck, Lesser Ury, Joseph Budko and Jacob Steinhardt. Three of them bear the stamp of the congress. Riemer nos. 36-40.
9. Photographic postcard depicting Carlsbad during the 13th congress (Carlsbad, 1923).
10. Postcard of the 15th Zionist congress (Basel, 1927). Bearing the stamp of the congress. Riemer no. 58.
11. A postcard sent from the 18th congress (Prague, 1933) with a view of the city of Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Goldberg Press, early 1930s. Bearing the stamp of the congress.
12. postcard of the 20th congress (Zurich 1937). Zurich: Guggenheim & Co., 1937. Bearing the stamp of the congress. Riemer no. 83.
13. Postcard of the 21st congress (Geneva, 1939), designed by Otte Wallisch. Stamped with the stamp of the congress and the stamp of the Palestinian censor. Riemer no. 93.
14. Postcard from the 23rd congress, with a photograph of the opening session. Herzliya: "Palphot", 1951.
15-16. Two postcards of the 24th Zionist congress, with photographs of the opening session. Herzliya: "Palphot", 1955.
Approx. 14X9 cm. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes and stains. Traces of tape on verso of several postcards. Large ink stains on postcard no. 12. Ten of the postcards were used.

Ten postcards bearing portraits of Theodor Herzl. St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Vienna and elsewhere, the first half of the 20th century.
All the postcards bear portraits of Theodor Herzl and some of them mark dates or various events. Among them: • An undivided postcard with an overprint: "2. Öst. Zion. Parteitag, Bielitz, 18-19 V 1902" [Second Austrian Zionists' Convention, Bielitz, May 18-19, 1902]. • A postcard with the greeting "May you be inscribed for a good year" (Hebrew) and Herzl's portrait in a frame of "Zion" and JNF stamps with Max Nordau's portrait. • A postcard designed after a JNF stamp depicting Herzl on a balcony, facing the Tower of David. Published by Jos. B. Pardo, [Plovdiv, Bulgaria?]. • Memorial postcard designed by the artist Perec Willenberg. Warsaw, 1946. • And more.
Four of the postcards are undivided.
Approx. 14X9 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. Fractures. Pinholes. Five of the postcards were used.