Collection of Paper Items with Illustrations and Dedications – Meir Ben Uri

Fifteen "Shana Tovah" greeting cards, handmade booklets, invitations and other paper items, with dedications and illustrations by Meir Ben Uri. [Israel, ca. 1930s to early 1980s].
* "Collection from sketches, drawings and files of the Institute for Religious Art… [1936-1946] and Later", handmade booklet – five prints of portraits by Ben Uri (among those portrayed: Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Martin Buber, Elsa Lasker-Schüler, Uri Zvi Greenberg and others) bound with copying of letters sent by those portrayed (German and a little Hebrew). With the booklet are enclosed additional copies of each one of the prints, hand-colored.
* "The Ark of the Covenant", handmade booklet – kind of "assembly instructions" for a model of the Ark of the Covenant, according Jewish sources and various studies. Includes explanations and excerpts about the Ark, its materials and shape, as well as many illustrations and sketches (most of them colored). [1981]. Hebrew.
* Seven printed greetings for a "Happy New Year" designed by Ben Uri. Some of them hand-colored and decorated. Sent by mail. 1966-1973.
* "View of Acre from Hadar Carmel", engraving. Hand-signed by Ben Uri (on the bottom margin, in Hebrew and English). In a passe-partout.
* Printed booklets, brochures and more.
Most of the items are dedicated or addressed to Frida Sternberg Finer (often by means of the initials of her name).
Enclosed: three leaves from the illustrated booklet "The Wonderous Journeys of Rabba Bar Bar Chana, adapted according to the Talmud and illustrated by Ben Uri" (Hebrew) (Tel-Aviv: H. Lowenstein, 1936).
A total of 15 items. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.