Auction 093 Kodesh books, Rabanic manuscripts, Zionism, Erez Israel. Judaica, archaeology and Jewish art
By Winner'S
Apr 5, 2016
3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem, Israel
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LOT 17:

Original collection of rare letters of Zionist leaders and prominent authors from the end of the 19th century until ...

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Original collection of rare letters of Zionist leaders and prominent authors from the end of the 19th century until the 1930s.
A large and varied collection of approximately 400 pages, organized in an album, which contains extremely rare letters from Zionist leaders, Prime Ministers, diplomats and prominent authors from the end of the 19th century to the 1930s.
*Letters in the handwriting and with the signature of Zionist leaders, from the turn of the century until the establishment of the State: Ze'ev Jabotinsky [3], Menachem Sheinkin [3], Meir Dizengoff, Yitzchak Ben Zvi, the Va'ad HaLeumi and more [3], Chaim Arlosoroff, Henrietta Szold, Eliyahu Golomb, Yehoshua Hankin, Yisrael Belkind, the founder of the Bilu movement and more.
*Letters and documents about Zionist and economic activity all over the world, requests for such activities and Zionist documents from rare places: Cuba, Baghdad, Alexandria, Tzidon, India. Handmade poster of Keren HaYesod, Telz.
*Israeli governmental letters, signed: Binyamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin [4], Moshe Sharet, Moshe Dayan, a collection of dedications by David Yellin.
*Authors, journalism and publishing: Eliezer Ben Yehuda to Meir Dizengoff, Leah Goldberg, a rare letter of the HaOlam weekly, most likely Alter Druyanov, Odessa 1912, E. Golomb, Chaim Nachman Bialik, U.Z. Greenberg and more.
*Letters of American institutions: the White House, American Presidents, AAJR, JTS, Yale, the Air Force.
*A letter about the Sha'arei Torah Yeshiva in Jaffa and the newspaper HaMelitz, which was sent to Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever, 1896, by the activist Moshe Bezalel Todrosovich. A letter from Auschwitz, 1944. A letter from the Militia Unit P.H.H, Austria, 1948. 
 
The letters are arranged in an album. They are in fine to very fine condition.