Palestine Action Day. Bronx Protest Rally. Sunday, April 11, 1948 at Court House Square, 161st Street and Grand Concourse. Nationally Prominent Speakers.
AUCTION 75 |
Thursday, March 08th,
2018 at 1:00 PM
Auction of Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Antiquities, Ceremonial Objects & Graphic Art
Lot 94
(ZIONISM)
Palestine Action Day. Bronx Protest Rally. Sunday, April 11, 1948 at Court House Square, 161st Street and Grand Concourse. Nationally Prominent Speakers.
New York, Schulsinger Bros. for the Bronx Zionist Emergency Council, 1948:
Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $550
“Voice Your Protest at Palestine Betrayal! You Marched in September for Partition…Protect it Now!”
The rally occurred in the Bronx, which at that time, had one of the largest regional Jewish population in the United States. Barely five weeks later, on the 14th May, the State of Israel was declared as an independent Jewish nation.