Jews Have Always Fought for Freedom. Edited by Joseph Brainin.

Auction 91 | Thursday, November 12th, 2020 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts Featuring an Extensive Collection of Rabbinic Autograph Letters.

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Lot 167
(HOLOCAUST).

Jews Have Always Fought for Freedom. Edited by Joseph Brainin.

With numerous photographic illustrations as well as artwork by William Gropper and <<Arthur Szyk.>> pp. 24. Original pictorial wrappers designed by Szyk, light wear. Sm. folio.

New York: (1943)

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $600
<< Accompanied by:>> Western Union Telegram inviting Leon J Obermeyer to meet the Soviet Delegation. 19th July, 1943. This brochure was published by the National Reception Committee to the Delegation from the U.S.S.R, chaired by Albert Einstein. It was issued to welcome Solomon Michoels and Itzik Feffer who visited the United States, Canada and Mexico on behalf of the Soviet Jewish anti-Fascist Committee. Both these celebrated men of Jewish culture were later brutally killed in the anti-Jewish purges of Joseph Stalin’s last years of rule. See J. Rubenstein & V.P. Naumov, Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (2001).