A Collection of Books About the Land of Israel

a. Ofanei HaHityashvut, by Dr Melech Zogorodsky, one of the greatest agronomists in Israel. Jaffa, 1919.
Published at the end of the First World War, with the hope that prevailed in the country for the restoration of the agricultural settlement after the damage caused by the war. A unique encyclopedic book, rich in information about the history of agriculture in Israel, the present situation, and hopes for the future.
58 pages, hard cover.
Condition: Very Good.
b. HaBonim HaRishonim, by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fishman Maimon. Jerusalem, 1924.
Episodes from the days of the early builders of the settlement, from the days of Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi and Ramban and until Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever and Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Reines. First part (Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi-Rabbi Ovadia of Bartenura). Additional parts were not printed.
102 pages.
Condition: Very Good. Ownership inscriptions.
c. Divrei Yemei Yisrael HaChadash L'Eretz Yisrael. Jerusalem, 1933.
"Israeli history, what it has been through both in its settlement and in its destruction…the historical places in Israel". Authored by Zusha Rosenblatt.
An extended edition with many additions compared to a different book which the author published in 1929.
Includes: Megillat Antiochus and Ma'aseh Yehudit, a discussion about the topic of the ten tribes, a detailed description of "the order of the chareidi settlement in Israel" from the period of the Ramban until the great rabbis in Israel in his period, the last one of whom was Rabbi Eliyahu Kletzkin.
74 pages.
Condition: Excellent.
a. Michtavei Hora'ah (Unterrikhtsbrief), by Shevach Walkowski. Letter 20 (out of a series of approximately 30 booklets which were printed). Cracow, circa 1910.
The text is in Hebrew with a translation and explanations in Yiddish. The booklet was intended to teach Hebrew and grammar in a professional and literary manner, though Zionist and Israeli texts. The content of the booklet: "Erev Pesach B'Moshava" by Zev Yavetz - a pioneering and picturesque description of the agricultural moshava in Israel; the poem "Kochav Nofel" by Yitzchak Katzenelson; learning of Ta'amei HaMikra, and other literary works. At the end of each text are lessons and explanations.
24cm.
16 pages.
Rare and interesting!
A hard cover was added to the booklet.
Condition: Good. The margins of the pages are a bit brittle.
b. Shivat HaMinim, by Yosef Weitz. Omanut, Publishing, Tel Aviv, 1930. JNF Eretz Yisrael Library.
Includes important research about the fruit of the Land, and photographs.
Stamp of Rabbi Gavriel HaCohen Fishman who is known as HaGefen from Tel Aviv (the brother of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon).
134 pages.
Condition: Very Good. Not original cover.