Photo-Album – Cinema Actor Hans Behal

Photo-album of the Austrian-Jewish cinema actor Hans Behal / Behall. Austria, [1930s-20s].
Album containing many original photos and some newspaper cuttings, with photos from films in which he participated. A label is attached next to most of the photos with the title of the film. Some of the photos were taken in Eretz Israel which means that Behal continued to act in films in Eretz Israel; in one of the photos a woman is seen with an inscription on her hat "Artistic Club Behal". Behal was born in Vienna in 1893, participated in many German films during the 1920s and early 1930s. Left Austria in 1933 with the rise of the Nazi Party and later moved to Eretz Israel. More than 100 photos and paper-cuttings, sizes and conditions vary, Album 29X40 cm.