Keren Hayesod – Collection of Certificates, Receipts and Other Paper Items

Keren Hayesod – Collection of Certificates, Receipts and Other Paper Items
Approx. 30 donation certificates, letters, receipts, informational brochures, handbills and other propaganda items issued by Keren Hayesod. Palestine, London, Austria, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere, 1920s to 1950s.

Among the items: · Five "Receipt-Certificates" for a donation to Keren Hayesod (two of them designed by Meir Gur-Arieh), 1920s and 1930s. · Manifests and handbills detailing the assistance given by Keren Hayesod to various goals, its planned activities and the financial resources needed to carry them out. 1920s. · Reports of a delegation of Keren Hayesod to Syria, 1928. · Typewritten letter by Ze'ev Jabotinsky in which he declines to give a speech in a meeting of Keren Hayesod. 1928. · Booklets and photograph booklets presenting the activity of Keren Hayesod. 1931 to 1949. · And more.

Keren Hayesod was established in London in 1920 as a fundraising arm of the Zionist Movement, to provide the resources needed for the Jewish people to establish a national home in Palestine.

Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.

Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.