30 postcards, including advertising postcards and photographic postcards, depicting hotels in Tiberias and its surroundings. Various publishers; most postcards are from ca. early 20th century to the 1940s.
Among the postcards: • Advertising postcard for the Tiberias Hotel and postcards with photographs of the hotel which was founded during the late 19th century by Richard Grossmann and was the largest and most advanced hotel in the Galilee. Among them: an undivided postcard published by R. Grossmann (Tiberias); a postcard that was handed out to tourists, with words and musical notes of the "Song of Galilee" meant to be sung on the shore of the Sea of Galilee (the name of a tourist and the date – October 1920 – were added by hand); and a photographic postcard published by the Eliyahu Brothers. • Postcards depicting The Elisabetha Haven of Rest and Auditorium. • A photographic postcard depicting the dining room of hotel Majestic. Stamped on verso: "Miss Karimeh Abbud, Photographer Nazareth". • Postcards depicting the Dafna, Guberman, Astoria and Europa hotels. • Postcards depicting the German hospice in Tabgha (Ein-Sheva, north-west of the Sea of Galilee). • And more.
9X14 cm on average. Condition varies. Minor stains and blemishes. Some of them were sent by mail.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

Three postcard booklets published by Ya'akov Ben Dov (Jacob Bendow) with photographs of the Galilee, Haifa and Jaffa. Jerusalem, [the first decades of the 20th century].
1. "In Galilee", "Serie IIII", a booklet holding twelve postcards with photographs of the area of the Valleys and Lower Galilee: Mount Tabor, Yavne'el, Merchavia, Poriyah and more.
2. "Haifa and Mount of Carmel", a booklet holding twelve postcards with photographs of Haifa: Mount Carmel, the Technion, The Reali School, Haifa bay and more.
3. "Jaffa", "Serie V", a booklet holding twelve postcards with photographs of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa: the "Shulamit" Music School, the Herzliya Gymnasium, a girls' school, "A Holiday in Nachalat Binyamin", Herzl St. in Tel-Aviv, and more.
The booklet is slightly different from the one documented in the catalog "Speaking Postcards from the Land of Israel" (Hebrew), by Ya'akov Gross (Ashdot Ya'akov, 2007).
Approx. 9X15 cm. Condition varies. The front cover of the first booklet is detached.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

Approx. 100 postcards with photographs, drawings and sketches of the holy cities, various sites and people in Palestine, alongside Zionist postcards depicting cities, colonies and pioneers in the new Yishuv, Zionist leaders and more. Published by "Omanut", "Tel-Chai", Ya'akov Ben-Dov, "Photo Brener". S. Narinsky, Karimeh Abbud, the Greek Monastery in Jerusalem, Y. & B. Zahlan, A. Attallah Frères, Fr. Vester & Co., The Cairo Postcard Trust, Phoenix, and more. Palestine, Egypt, Poland, Germany and elsewhere, the first half of the 20th century.
Approx. 70 of the postcards are "Holy Land" postcards depicting sites such as the Temple Mount, Via Dolorosa, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Bethlehem, Mount Carmel, Nazareth, Jericho, the Dead Sea, and more. These include: • Two photographic postcards by the photographer Karimeh Abbud. • An undivided postcard depicting Hotel Jerusalem (Kaminitz) in Jerusalem. • A postcard depicting an ambulance train at the train station of Kefar Batir on the railroad to Jerusalem (presumably during World War I). • And more. The rest of the postcards depict pioneers, sights in cities and colonies of the new Yishuv, Zionist leaders, advertising slogans and more. These include: • A postcard with a group photograph of "HaShomer" members in the Jewish Battalions. Published by "Tel-Chai", Jaffa-Vienna. • Bezalel postcard designed by Shmuel Ben David, with a portrait of Lord Balfour and the text of the Balfour Declaration. Published by Ya'akov Ben-Dov (two copies), Jerusalem. • Two postcards with portraits of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines. • And more.
The collection contains eight undivided postcards.
Several of the postcards appear in duplicate copies.
14X9 cm on average. Condition varies. Minor blemishes, creases and tears to some of the postcards. 20 of the postcards were used.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

Approx. 95 postcards depicting dozens of synagogues in Europe and several synagogues elsewhere. Hungary, Romania, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and elsewhere, [late 19th century to the second half of the 20th century].
The postcards, most of which were printed during the late 19th century until mid-20th century, show photographs and drawings of Reform, Neolog and Orthodox synagogues in dozens of cities and towns throughout Europe, most of them in Hungary, some in Romania and Germany and a few in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France and Italy. Several postcards depict synagogues in the USA and Curaçao.
The postcards can be divided into two major types: postcards whose main subject is the synagogue and postcards depicting a general view of the town or some of its remarkable buildings, which include the synagogue. The collection represents a wide spectrum of communities and architectural styles, from modest structures in small towns to impressive eclectic buildings that rise above their surroundings in the central cities of Germany and Hungary. Most of the postcards depict the exterior of the synagogues; yet some depict the interior.
Practically all the synagogues of the German communities depicted in this collection were destroyed during Kristallnacht. After the war, several of them were rebuilt. The synagogues of the Hungarian and Romanian communities were abandoned or destroyed during the years of the Communist regime after World War II and some of them were restored during the late 20th century and early 21st century.
The collection contains 32 undivided postcards.
Enclosed: A printed card which is not a postcard.
14X9 cm on average. Condition varies. Most of the postcards were sent by mail.