Sepher ha-Ma'atzar ve-ha-Galuth (Shalosh Shanim le-Galutheinu) / Three Years in Exile: A History of Jewish Palestinian Detainees in Africa

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Sepher ha-Ma'atzar ve-ha-Galuth (Shalosh Shanim le-Galutheinu) / Three Years in Exile: A History of Jewish Palestinian Detainees in Africa

Mimeographed. Hebrew text with separate English title. Pasted inside front cover map of East Africa and locations of camps reserved for the Jewish Palestinian exiles. Pasted inside back cover, graph containing statistics of numbers of prisoners, incarcerations, releases and escapes, month by month for years 1944-1947. With black-and-white photos ff. 321, (4). Trace foxed. Folio

Special Camp Gilgil, Kenya Colony: October 1947

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

This remarkable document was produced by members of the Jewish underground who were deported from Palestine to British colonies in East Africa: Eritrea, Sudan and Kenya. For obvious reasons, the contributors to this volume assume pen names, with the notable exception of Revisionist poet Uri Zvi Greenberg. According to the introduction, the volume was produced within the camps themselves ANTHONY: AFTER THIS LOT, MAKE A HEADER FOR THE NEXT SECTION - ILLUSTRATED BOOKS