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![1. Appeal by the Tiberias Relief Committee, [printed in Haifa, 1934]. Aid request by a committee representing all ethnic grou](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale13-public/37.jpg "Tiberias – Two Documents")
Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $120
Sold for: $163
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1. Appeal by the Tiberias Relief Committee, [printed in Haifa, 1934]. Aid request by a committee representing all ethnic groups in Tiberias, following a serious flood in Tiberias that "caused not only casualties but also poverty to many of the city's inhabitants". Printed leaf, Arabic, Hebrew and Engish. Single leaf, good condition. Filing holes, folded.
2. Handwritten letter, sent from Tiberias on October 12 [1938] describing in detail the massacre of Tiberian Jews ten days earlier, during which 19 Jews were murdered and the synagogue burnt. [6] pages, good condition. Folded leaves.
2. Handwritten letter, sent from Tiberias on October 12 [1938] describing in detail the massacre of Tiberian Jews ten days earlier, during which 19 Jews were murdered and the synagogue burnt. [6] pages, good condition. Folded leaves.
Category
Eretz Israel, Settlements
Catalogue Value
Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $120
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"Who forced me to leave the country in 1928?" – 24 letters. Jaffa and Haifa, 1926-1928.
File containing correspondence between Meir Rosenman after he was fired from the Electric Corporation, claiming that he is not a Zionist, and the management of the corporation and Eliyahu Golomb, representative of the Jewish Laborers Federation (Histadrut). Letters of claims and letters to Audit Committee, claims for severance payment and request to be re-hired. Rosenman worked for the Electric Corporation between the years 1925 and 1927 and was then fired, claiming that he is not a Zionist. In a letter of reply sent by Pinchas Rutenbeg to Rosenman, he stated that "it is his duty to employ only those people who really want to tie their lives to this land". 24 letters + issue of newpaper, 30 cm. Fair condition. Tears and stains.
File containing correspondence between Meir Rosenman after he was fired from the Electric Corporation, claiming that he is not a Zionist, and the management of the corporation and Eliyahu Golomb, representative of the Jewish Laborers Federation (Histadrut). Letters of claims and letters to Audit Committee, claims for severance payment and request to be re-hired. Rosenman worked for the Electric Corporation between the years 1925 and 1927 and was then fired, claiming that he is not a Zionist. In a letter of reply sent by Pinchas Rutenbeg to Rosenman, he stated that "it is his duty to employ only those people who really want to tie their lives to this land". 24 letters + issue of newpaper, 30 cm. Fair condition. Tears and stains.
Category
Eretz Israel, Settlements
Catalogue Value
Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $180
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Collection of documents of David Ettinger and "Successors of Chaim Cohen" Company, owners of petroleum enterprises in the South of Russia which later on placed a petroleum pipe in the sea near Haifa shores, for pumping petroleum directly from the ships and storing it in containers on the mainland. Eretz Israel and Russia, 1910's – 1950's.
Archive contains: Two large original photographs, "Chaim Cohen's warehouse and petroleum refineries near Saratov in Russia"; "Visit of Chaim Cohen owner of Petroleum company in the plant…" 1909 or 1910; five small photographs and a few later printings of photographs relating to petroleum enterprises. * Various letters most of them concerning the petroleum business. * Four architectural sketches for the Haifa petroleum pipe, 1920's. Total of 18 original items of that period + several later photographs from newspapers and books. Various sizes and conditions.
Archive contains: Two large original photographs, "Chaim Cohen's warehouse and petroleum refineries near Saratov in Russia"; "Visit of Chaim Cohen owner of Petroleum company in the plant…" 1909 or 1910; five small photographs and a few later printings of photographs relating to petroleum enterprises. * Various letters most of them concerning the petroleum business. * Four architectural sketches for the Haifa petroleum pipe, 1920's. Total of 18 original items of that period + several later photographs from newspapers and books. Various sizes and conditions.
Category
Eretz Israel, Settlements
Catalogue Value
Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $180
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14 Booklets "She'ifoteinu" – Monthly magazine and a collection of articles published by "Brit Shalom". Jerusalem, 1927-1933.
Brit Shalom – movement established in 1925 by a group of Jewish intellectuals, aiming at achieving co-existence between Jews and Arabs, through yielding the right to establish a national home for Jews in Eretz Israel, as stated in the Balfour Declaration. Amongst the members and supporters were Arthur Ruppin, Martin Buber, Shmuel Hugo Bergman, Gershom Shalom, Ernst Simon, Henreitta Szold, Yehudah Leib Magnes and others. Approximately 21 cm. Condition varies, fair to good. Ink-stamps.
Brit Shalom – movement established in 1925 by a group of Jewish intellectuals, aiming at achieving co-existence between Jews and Arabs, through yielding the right to establish a national home for Jews in Eretz Israel, as stated in the Balfour Declaration. Amongst the members and supporters were Arthur Ruppin, Martin Buber, Shmuel Hugo Bergman, Gershom Shalom, Ernst Simon, Henreitta Szold, Yehudah Leib Magnes and others. Approximately 21 cm. Condition varies, fair to good. Ink-stamps.
Category
Eretz Israel, Settlements
Catalogue Value
![Ele Toldot Avodah Achat. "Solel Boneh Ltd." Publishing, Eretz Israel, [c. 1944].
Caricatures album printed in a pho](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale13-public/41.jpg "\"Solel Boneh\" – Unique Caricatures Album")
Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $150
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Ele Toldot Avodah Achat. "Solel Boneh Ltd." Publishing, Eretz Israel, [c. 1944].
Caricatures album printed in a photography-technique on photographic paper, contains about 50 caricatures featuring "Solel Boneh" company's workers way of life such as work in different sites, connections with the army; position holders, work-camp and more. "Caricatures by Avigdor Meler, portraits by Yesha'ayahu Dinburg, Photography: Brothers Zak, Tel Aviv". 46 leaves, 16X9.5 cm. Good condition.
Caricatures album printed in a photography-technique on photographic paper, contains about 50 caricatures featuring "Solel Boneh" company's workers way of life such as work in different sites, connections with the army; position holders, work-camp and more. "Caricatures by Avigdor Meler, portraits by Yesha'ayahu Dinburg, Photography: Brothers Zak, Tel Aviv". 46 leaves, 16X9.5 cm. Good condition.
Category
Eretz Israel, Settlements
Catalogue Value
Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $120
Sold for: $350
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The State shall be Established, special edition of "Ha'aretz" newspaper. November 29, 1947.
"A majority of two-thirds of the United Nations General Assembly decided in favor of establishing two states – Jewish and Arab – in Eretz Israel". Leaf 33.5 cm. Good condition. Folding-marks, sslight tears to borders. Few stains.
"A majority of two-thirds of the United Nations General Assembly decided in favor of establishing two states – Jewish and Arab – in Eretz Israel". Leaf 33.5 cm. Good condition. Folding-marks, sslight tears to borders. Few stains.
Category
Creation of Israel and War of Independence
Catalogue Value
Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $200
Sold for: $250
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Order of prohibition to leave the country, poster issued by the center of enlistment census. February 24, 1948.
Order prohibiting people of 16-40 years of age from leaving the country and instructions to travel-agencies and transportation services not to handle arrangements for traveling abroad. 44.5X34 cm. Good condition. Stains, filing-holes. Professionally restored.
Order prohibiting people of 16-40 years of age from leaving the country and instructions to travel-agencies and transportation services not to handle arrangements for traveling abroad. 44.5X34 cm. Good condition. Stains, filing-holes. Professionally restored.
Category
Creation of Israel and War of Independence
Catalogue Value
Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $150
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Notebook with many handwritten inscriptions concerning recruitment of women to the "HISH" [field corps of the "Hagana" organization], in home-front roles. One leaf is dated: February 25, 1948.
Minutes of meetings, surveys of personnel in different battalions, lists of recruited women with personal details, roles in need of manning, and more. The writer – Hanna – signs on one of the leaves: "I do not fulfill al the needs of the area's commanders due to lack of girls of recruitment age". [13] written leaves, 22 cm. Good condition. Creases to corners of some leaves.
Minutes of meetings, surveys of personnel in different battalions, lists of recruited women with personal details, roles in need of manning, and more. The writer – Hanna – signs on one of the leaves: "I do not fulfill al the needs of the area's commanders due to lack of girls of recruitment age". [13] written leaves, 22 cm. Good condition. Creases to corners of some leaves.
Category
Creation of Israel and War of Independence
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Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $200
Sold for: $250
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Issue of The Palestine Post, Sunday, May 16, 1948.
Title: State of Israel is Born. Photograph of David Ben Gurion on title page. [2] pages, 59 cm. Good condition. Folded. Tears to folding-lines.
Title: State of Israel is Born. Photograph of David Ben Gurion on title page. [2] pages, 59 cm. Good condition. Folded. Tears to folding-lines.
Category
Creation of Israel and War of Independence
Catalogue Value
Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $120
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Issue of The New Judæa newspaper. London, May 1948.
Dedicated to the establishment of the State of Israel. On first pages appears a translation of the Declaration of Independence translated into English. 20 pages, 33.5 cm. Very good condition. Filing holes. Ink-stamp.
Dedicated to the establishment of the State of Israel. On first pages appears a translation of the Declaration of Independence translated into English. 20 pages, 33.5 cm. Very good condition. Filing holes. Ink-stamp.
Category
Creation of Israel and War of Independence
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![Speech of the High Commander of the Irgun Tzvai Leumi to the people in Zion, [Menachem Begin]. Jeruaslem, May 15 1948.
“Broad](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale13-public/67.jpg "Speech by Etzel High Commander – May 15, 1948")
Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $150
Sold for: $275
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Speech of the High Commander of the Irgun Tzvai Leumi to the people in Zion, [Menachem Begin]. Jeruaslem, May 15 1948.
“Broadcast on 6 Iyar 1948... on the ‘Voice of Freedom,’ broadcast station of the Irgun Tzvai Leumi”. Deals with the victory of the War of Independence following the Holocaust, the difficulties of the struggle, the need for a strong and trained army, the necessity of a foreign policy with the United States and the Soviet Union, the return to Zion, and other subjects. “The soldiers of Israel will yet hoist our flag over the Tower of David…”. 8 pages, 23 cm. Good condition. Tears to margins. Booklet, not bound. Handwritten comments.
“Broadcast on 6 Iyar 1948... on the ‘Voice of Freedom,’ broadcast station of the Irgun Tzvai Leumi”. Deals with the victory of the War of Independence following the Holocaust, the difficulties of the struggle, the need for a strong and trained army, the necessity of a foreign policy with the United States and the Soviet Union, the return to Zion, and other subjects. “The soldiers of Israel will yet hoist our flag over the Tower of David…”. 8 pages, 23 cm. Good condition. Tears to margins. Booklet, not bound. Handwritten comments.
Category
Creation of Israel and War of Independence
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Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 19, 2011
Opening: $180
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3 lists of vacated from Upper Galilee settlements, when the War of Independence broke out and the settlements have been disconnected from transportation routes and from settled areas, late 1947 or 1948.
"List of families vacated from Rosh Pina and transferred to Zichron Ya'akov"; "List of vacated from Yessod Hama'ala"; "Metula – list of women, children and non-fighting people, vacated". [1]; [1]; [3] leaves. Size varies. Generally in good condition.
"List of families vacated from Rosh Pina and transferred to Zichron Ya'akov"; "List of vacated from Yessod Hama'ala"; "Metula – list of women, children and non-fighting people, vacated". [1]; [1]; [3] leaves. Size varies. Generally in good condition.
Category
Creation of Israel and War of Independence
Catalogue Value