L’Illustration Juive - Iton Ivri Metzuyar. Founded by Rabbi David Prato of Alexandria, Egypt
AUCTION 58 |
Thursday, May 02nd,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters
Lot 111
(EGYPT).
L’Illustration Juive - Iton Ivri Metzuyar. Founded by Rabbi David Prato of Alexandria, Egypt
Alexandria: March, 1929 - December, 1931
Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $3,200
This extensive periodical indicates how very active the cosmopolitan Jewish community of Alexandria was - and remained so - until a preponderance of anti-Zionism pervaded Egyptian society. L’Illustration Juive, a lavish cultural publication with strong focus upon Jewish fine arts, includes articles by thinkers Edmond Fleg and Martin Buber, novelist S. Y.Agnon and rabbinic scholar R. Abraham Schreiber (Sofer). Some of the articles relate particularly to the Alexandrian Jewish community.