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LOT 141:
Collection of Postcards – Jewish Figures – Eastern Europe and North Africa
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Collection of Postcards – Jewish Figures – Eastern Europe and North Africa
83 postcards with paintings and photographs of Jews engaged in different occupations. Different publishers. Europe and North Africa, [first decades of the 20th century].
The postcards present paintings and photographs of Jews in various towns throughout Europe, in North Africa and in Palestine, among them: Jews at prayer and during study; Jews in the streets of Carlsbad, Marienbad, Lida, Stanislawow, Lodz and other cities; "Jewish characters" from Eastern Europe, Bukhara and North Africa (some postcards are titled, for example, "Talmud Chochem", "Schacharis" and "Git Shabes"); Jewish craftsmen and merchants at work – knife sharpener, fabric merchant, Yemenite porter, peddlers and silversmiths in Tbilisi, Jewish families by their homes, and more.
20 postcards in the collection are undivided. A small photograph is pasted on one postcard.
Enclosed is a card which is not a postcard.
Average size: 9X14 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Some creases. 38 postcards were used. Traces of pasting to album on the back of one postcard.
