Bidspirit auction | Students' Notebooks with Interesting Covers

Students' Notebooks with Interesting Covers – The Beginning of the 20th Century – Zefat, Jerusalem, New York - Covers of notebooks have always served as a means for conveying educational messages. The covers before us contain Jewish and Zionist messages and the serve as faithful representatives of the spirit of their times. ”Rabbi Eliyahu Notebook”, published by ”Ketav” New York, the forties. Rare. Religious and national motifs are entwined on the cover. On the first page there is a picture of the Vilna Gaon. On the inner side of the back cover there are the blessings made upon food and drink with an explanation in English. On the back cover are printed the songs ”Ha'Tikva” and ”Po Be'Eretz Chemdat Avot” and the liturgical poem ”Tzur Mi'Shelo Achalnu”. On the two first pages there is a list of donors from New York. Cover of a notebook published by the department store of Tuviya Unger in Zefat. On the cover, the song ”Nachamu, Nachamu” is printed. The song was published in the book ”Kinor Zion” (the Violin of Zion), Luntz Print, Jerusalem, 1922. Geometry notebook with lovely illustrations of a seventh-grade student at ”Tachkemoni” school, 1932. An examination of the notebook reveals the teaching method of geometry during the thirties. The notebook was published by the Gallantry department store of the brothers Elisha and Nissan Levi. Two notebooks of students from Zefat, 1921. Condition: Very Good.