Collection of Postcards – Sights from Palestine and the Zionist Enterprise in Palestine – First Half of the 20th Century

Collection of Postcards – Sights from Palestine and the Zionist Enterprise in Palestine – First Half of the 20th Century
Approx. 100 postcards with photographs, drawings and sketches of the holy cities, various sites and people in Palestine, alongside Zionist postcards depicting cities, colonies and pioneers in the new Yishuv, Zionist leaders and more. Published by "Omanut", "Tel-Chai", Ya'akov Ben-Dov, "Photo Brener". S. Narinsky, Karimeh Abbud, the Greek Monastery in Jerusalem, Y. & B. Zahlan, A. Attallah Frères, Fr. Vester & Co., The Cairo Postcard Trust, Phoenix, and more. Palestine, Egypt, Poland, Germany and elsewhere, the first half of the 20th century.
Approx. 70 of the postcards are "Holy Land" postcards depicting sites such as the Temple Mount, Via Dolorosa, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Bethlehem, Mount Carmel, Nazareth, Jericho, the Dead Sea, and more. These include: • Two photographic postcards by the photographer Karimeh Abbud. • An undivided postcard depicting Hotel Jerusalem (Kaminitz) in Jerusalem. • A postcard depicting an ambulance train at the train station of Kefar Batir on the railroad to Jerusalem (presumably during World War I). • And more. The rest of the postcards depict pioneers, sights in cities and colonies of the new Yishuv, Zionist leaders, advertising slogans and more. These include: • A postcard with a group photograph of "HaShomer" members in the Jewish Battalions. Published by "Tel-Chai", Jaffa-Vienna. • Bezalel postcard designed by Shmuel Ben David, with a portrait of Lord Balfour and the text of the Balfour Declaration. Published by Ya'akov Ben-Dov (two copies), Jerusalem. • Two postcards with portraits of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines. • And more.
The collection contains eight undivided postcards.
Several of the postcards appear in duplicate copies.
14X9 cm on average. Condition varies. Minor blemishes, creases and tears to some of the postcards. 20 of the postcards were used.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.