Album fun Beilis Process [Beilis Trial Album]. Warsaw, 1913. Yiddish and Russian.
Small album, documenting through photographs the life of Mendel Beilis and the trial against him and the people involved, among them the victim, the judges, the witnesses, lawyers and more. Each photograph is titled in Yiddish and in Russian.
Menachem Mendel Beilis was accused of murdering in April 1911 a Ukrainian Christian boy by the name of Andrei Yushichinsky to use his blood to prepare Matzahs for Passover. Beilis was arrested on the basis of a false testimony and his trial commenced in September 1913. On the background of the "murder" and the trial, a vicious campaign was launched against the Jews. After nearly three years in prison, on November 10, 1913, Beilis was acquitted. In 1917, following the Revolution, an investigation committee was appointed and its findings revealed that the authorities were well aware of the true circumstances and facts and staged the trial for anti-Semitic reasons. This album was printed when Beilis was acquitted and the last photograph portrays Beilis with his family.
[13] leaves, 14.5X11 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Creases. A small hole at the top pf all of the leaves. Tears and open tears to cover. Paper label on front cover. Pen inscription on inside front cover.

Poster issued by the Organization of General Zionists – Haifa, Group of Immigrants from Western Europe – An invitation to a people’s assembly at Beit ha-Halutzot on July 6, 1938, about the Austrian Expulsion. Haifa: H. Meisler. Hebrew and German.
Invitation to a people’s assembly that took place following the expulsion of Austrian Jewry after the anschluss (annexation) in March 1938. The speakers at the assembly: Anita Miller-Cohen, attorney Shoham Finkelstein and attorney Ya’akov Klibanov.
31X48 cm. Good condition. Folding marks. Minor stains and creases. A handwritten note on the poster. Several tears at the edges, most of them reinforced with tape.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.

Twelve letters that document the transfer of merchandise from Nazi Germany to Palestine as part of the Transfer Agreement. Tel-Aviv, Berlin and other cities in Germany, 1938-1939. German and Hebrew.
The Transfer Agreement was signed in 1933 between the government of Nazi Germany and the Jewish Agency, with the aim of transferring the possessions and capital of Germany's Jews to Palestine. The agreement caused a major conflict in the Jewish community in Palestine and in the Diaspora, related among other things to the moral propriety of negotiating with the Nazis and the economic gain to be derived therefrom. Under the agreement, German-Jewish property owners deposited their money with one of three brokers (the Hanotea company, the Anglo-Palestine Company, or Haavara), which gave it to companies in Palestine with the promise that it would be used to purchase German goods only. After the Jewish property owners immigrated to Palestine, they received two-thirds of their original capital.
The letters in this collection document the transfer of funds to the Palestinian company Ein ha-Keshet (via Haavara), as well as several purchases that the company made from manufacturers in Nazi Germany. The collection includes: • Four letters that were sent from Haavara to Ein ha-Keshet company (forms filled out using a typewriter), reporting funds that were transferred to the company (the letters contain the names of the Jews from whose accounts the funds were taken). Hebrew. • A letter and account statement, typewritten on the official stationery of the German company Preußische Bergwerks- und Hütten-Aktiengesellschaft, which were sent to Ein ha-Keshet after the purchase of various items. German. • Five letters, typewritten on the official stationery of the German insurance company Allianz und Stuttgarter Verein, which were sent to Ein ha-Keshet about merchandise that was damaged in transit to Palestine. German. • A letter, typewritten on the official stationery of Beit & Co. Hamburg, discussing the possibility of a new business relationship. German.
The documents are approx. 28-30 cm. Condition varies. Overall good–fair condition. Stains, creases, fold marks and filing holes. Tears and open tears at the edges (most of them minor).

Help!! Sauvez! Hilfe!! Anatol Gurewitsch . Tel-Aviv: "Fidea-Humanistic Publishing House", 1939.
A poem and 15 impressive linocuts, in the spirit of German expressionism, by Anatol Gurewitsch, dealing with the persecution of Jews in Germany.
Anatol Gurewitsch (1916-2005), born in Russia, studied in Germany, France and Italy and with the Israeli painters Miron Sima and Yitzchak Frenkel. He immigrated to Palestine in 1934, where he painted and designed stage decorations and costumes for the theater.
[1] leaf + [15] linocuts. 32.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains and creases. Many dampstains. Tears along the spine. Signs of pasting along the spine (from binding?).

Permit for Stay in Japan, printed form with information filled out in handwriting. Given to Icchok Mondrowitz, a Jewish refugee from Poland, in 1941 (dated according to the Japanese calendar – the 16th year of the Shōwa period). English and Japanese.
Many Jews from Europe fled via Siberia to China and Japan during World War II. This item is a permit to stay in Japan, issued by the governor of the Hyōgo Prefecture, permitting 29-year-old Icchok Mondrowitz to stay in Japan for two months.
25.5X17.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Folding marks and creases. Stains. Tiny holes and tears at the edges and along the fold lines.