Auction 016 Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Aug 14, 2018 (Your local time)
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LOT 448:

Six Postcards and Two Invitation-Tickets to Purim Festivities – Adloyada in Tel-Aviv, Celebrations in Vienna and ...

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Six Postcards and Two Invitation-Tickets to Purim Festivities – Adloyada in Tel-Aviv, Celebrations in Vienna and Berlin and more – First Half of 20th Century
1-6. Six postcards about Purim. Among them: * Humorous postcard with an illustration of Jews dancing in a Purim party. Published by Fotographische Kunstanstalt E. V. Schiller, Tchernovitz. Undivided. * Real-Photo postcard – Adloyada in Tel-Aviv in 1935 – a giant doll of a crocodile ("Crocodile of Speculation") brought to a public trial. * Real-photo postcard – Adloyada in Tel-Aviv in 1935 – a giant Hitler doll on a wagon designed as a German tank. Stamped on the back with two ink-stamps: "Tel Awiw, Purim 5695" [Tel-Aviv, Purim 1935], and "Adolf Mandowsky, Breslau". * Postcard with a micrograph by Zvi Dushnik: text of the Esther Scroll, shaped as the Flying Camel. Achdut printing press, Tel-Aviv. * And more.
7-8. Two tickets, printed and filled in by hand: invitation to a Purim party held in 1904 in Hotel Savoy (Vienna), on behalf of Exekutiv-Komite der Zionistischen Vereine der Bezirke XII-XV [Executive committee of the Zionist Organization in districts 7-15]; RSVP card for a Purim Party on behalf of The Association for Jewish History and Literature [Vereins für jüdische Geschichte und Literatur] in Berlin (no year indicated).
Approx. 9X14 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Filing holes to one of the invitation tickets.

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