The present catalogue includes an extensive chapter dedicated to Bezalel artists, including illustrated books, various objects, drawing and paintings. This chapter features numerous original sketches for works by Ze'ev Raban - Raban's sketchbook (lot 318), sketches for illustrations to the Song of Songs (lot 320), sketches of the signs of the Zodiac (lot 327), a large collection of photographs of works by Raban and Meir Gur Aryeh (lot 344), and many other unique items from the estate of Shlomo Kedmi, who succeeded Raban and Gur Aryeh in the Industrial Art Studio.
The chapter dedicated to Hebrew children's books features charming works by prominent writers and illustrators: stories by Benzion Raskin illustrated by Uriel Kahana, Chaim Hanft and Haim Goldberg; poems by Itzhak Katzenelson illustrated by Gertrud Caspari; rhymes by Ya'akov David Kamson illustrated by Else Wenz-Viëtor; children's book published by "Omanut", with color lithograph illustrations by "Chavurat Tsayarim" (Apter, Mutzelmacher, Kravtsov and Higer); pop-up books illustrated by David Gilboa; and other rare books.
The avant-garde chapter features Yiiddish, Hebrew and Russian books, with illustrations and cover-designs by important Russian avant-garde artists such as El Lissitzky, Joseph Chaikov, Issachar Ber Ryback, Mark Epstein and Nathan Altman.
The catalogue further features a variety of choice items representing the history of Palestine and Zionism, bibliophile works, letters, travelogues and maps of Palestine, photographs, postcards, rare Ladino periodicals, works by Safed-based artist Yosef Zvi Geiger, bibliophile works, a chapter dedicated to numismatics, and many more items.
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Four Large Photographs – Zionist Conventions in Russia, Early 20th Century – Photograph of Zionist Delegates in ...
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Four Large Photographs – Zionist Conventions in Russia, Early 20th Century – Photograph of Zionist Delegates in Vologda, with Jewish Children Deported from Lithuania
Four photographs from Zionist conventions in Russia. Moscow and Vologda: first decades of the 20th century:
• Crowd flying a Zionist flag, during a convention in the city of Vologda (1903/4). • Representatives of Jewish communities in a convention in Moscow (among the figures seen in the photograph: Leib Yaffe, Abraham Podlishevski, Zvi Belkovsky; 1918). • Eight members of the Zionist committee of Vologda, photographed alongside Jewish children deported from Lithuania (1918/1919). • Photograph from the annual convention of Russian Zionists in Moscow, 1920 – this convention was the last one to take place before the Zionist movement was banned in Communist Russia; it was dispersed, and its participants arrested.
The photographs are mounted on card; captioned by hand on verso. Photographer's stamp on one mount.
The photographs presumably belonged to the Zionist activist, Nachum Lipschitz, a member of the Assembly of Representatives, and a delegate to the Zionist Congress. Lipschitz appears in one of the photos.
Four photographs. Approx. 28X22 cm to 39X29 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Scratches and abrasions (mostly minor). Blemishes, tears and losses to card mounts.
