Palestine Book. The Jewish Palestine Pavilion, New York World's Fair 1939.

Auction 95 | Thursday, November 11th, 2021 at 11:00am
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinic Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 360
(ISRAEL, STATE OF).

Palestine Book. The Jewish Palestine Pavilion, New York World's Fair 1939.

Black-and-white pictorial magazine. Edited by Meyer W. Weisgal. pp. 138. Original multi-color pictorial wrappers. Sm. folio.

New York: Ogden Printing 1939

Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $350
Twenty years into the British Mandate, the new Yishuv was able to boast of prodigious achievements in all fields of endeavor: Agriculture, banking, civic planning, defense, industry. This publication includes essays by Zionist leaders Chaim Weizmann, Arthur Ruppin, as well as philo-Semitic columnist Pierre van Passen and novelist Thomas Mann, and perhaps most significantly, a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt fully endorsing the Jewish aspiration to a Homeland in Palestine.