Igeret Min HaBayit [“Letter from Home.”]

Auction 98 | Thursday, June 16th, 2022 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

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Lot 189

(ISRAEL, STATE OF).

Igeret Min HaBayit [“Letter from Home.”]

Mimeograph pamplet prepared and sent to Jewish soldiers of Kibbutz Alonim fighting in World War Two. With 8 charming illustrations. pp. 20. Original pictorial wrappers. 12mo.

Kibbutz Alonim: Spring 1944

Est: $700 - $900

Penned as a letter by the Kibbutz children to their fathers serving in Europe, in which daily life at home is described. The children innocently talk of a hike taken to Kiryat Tivon, helping with the newborn babies in the Kibbutz nursery, and hopes of a trip to the beach in Caesarea; blissfully unaware of the pangs of homesickness their letter was sure to induce on its faraway readers. Located in the Lower Galilee, Kibbutz Alonim was founded by members of HaShomer HaTza’ir in 1936.