Collection of documents and letters sent to Ziva Cizik [Talbar], an A.T.S. (Auxiliary Territorial Service) driver, 1943-1950 (most of the letters between the years 1943- and 1945).
Ziva Cizik joined the ATS in 1943 at the age of 17 ["The Recruitment Office of the Jewish Agency told me that I should join the Palmach. I met with Benny Marshak and convinced him that I should rather go to the army"]. After a driving and mechanics course in Egypt, specialization as an ambulance driver and a short service in Egypt, she was posted in Italy.
The collection presented includes several notebooks of poems, memories and passing thoughts (Egypt, Tel-Aviv and Italy, 1944-1945); "Shana Tovah" cards including cards of various ATS companies; letters sent to Ziva during her service in ATS (as well as letters of later years), including a significant amount of letters sent by friends who also served in the British Army during the same years; two photo albums with photos which Ziva took in Egypt and in Italy in 1943-1944, and additional items. Lot of hundreds of items. Sizes and conditions vary.

Calendar for the year 1946-47. Produced by Agudat Israel, Bratislava (Pressburg), [1946]. Hebrew and Slovakian.
The booklet opens with the calendar which is followed by Shabbat prayers and blessings. Short texts about "Agudat Israel" are integrated into the calendar as well as its goals and some advertisements. Pages not numbered, 12 cm. Good condition, spotting, damages to last pages, Not in NLI collections.

The Blue Riding hood, by Zvi Binyamin [Barlevi]. Tel-Aviv: B.Barlevi, 1945. Illustrations by L. Dikstein.
Illustrated story for children: the little girl, Blue Riding hood, hears about the German conspiracy to murder Jews. She runs to the forest and tells the partisans, who save the Jews. The composer of the story is the publisher Binymani Barlevi, who signed some of his works with his pseudonym "Zvi Binyamin" or using similar pseudonyms. [2],8,[2] pp, 22.5X15 cm. Good condition. Spots.

Certificate issued by JNF – for planting two trees in the "Martyrs Forest", in memory of holocaust victims. Issued by the JNF Central Council in Germany. [C. 1951]. Design: Y.D. Sheinson.
The certificated was granted to Mrs. Lili Retter for planting two trees in memory of Avraham and Tcharna Sonshein. The frame is decorated with illustrations in color portraying Jews in concentration camps and illustrations of Eretz Israel. A Magen David appears on the four corners with the inscription 'JNF'. On the upper part of the frame appears a "Yizkor" passage. Certificate design by Yossef David Sheinson, see also lot no. 216. 27X37 cm. Frame 37X48.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks. Not examined out of frame.

Elections poster for Russian Jewry Convention ("alruslandishn yidishn tzusamnfar"). M. Pivovarski printing press. Petrograd, [1917]. Yiddish.
The February 1917 Revolution, after which civil limitations imposed on Russian Jews were cancelled, aroused hope amongst Jews and some Jewish parties were set up and aimed at achieving national autonomy. Even though each party defined "autonomy" differently, many felt the need to found an umbrella organization for all of Russian Jews. In 1917 elections for "Russian Jewry Convention" were declared. This convention was meant to form the umbrella organization. The elections were conducted but the convention did not take place since, following the Bolshevik Revolution in October of the same year, the attitude of the Russian regime towards the Jews degraded.
The poster presented calls for electing the "Zionist List No. 6", in the elections for "Russian Jewry Convention". The illustration depicts an Eretz-Israeli landscape; a woman, in the center, dressed in a biblical garment gathering stalks of grain (probably inspired by Ruth the Moabitess). On the left side appears and inscription in Yiddish: "To all believers in the revival of the land through Jewish Labor".
Another poster, in an additional version, was printed in the same year, in which the text is somewhat different from the one which appears on the poster presented here.
44X56 cm. Framed 58X70 cm. Good condition. Creases and folding marks. Not examined out of frame.