Manitoba
AUCTION 43 |
Thursday, April 02nd,
2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 71
(CANADA)
Manitoba
Amsterdam: Ellerman, Harms circa 1884
Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $300
An economic, social and political guide to encourage immigrants to settle this mid-continental province of Canada.
In 1881, the Manitoba census showed just 33 families in the province. That very year, the assassination of Czar Alexander II and the subsequent persecutions of the Jews in Russia, produced an influx of Jewish immigrants to Manitoba and throughout Canada.
See A.A. Chiel, Russian Jewish-Immigration, in: Jews in Manitoba, a Social History (1961), pp. 25-42. This prospectus not noted by Chiel