Palestine. Extensive scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photographic illustrations, with manuscript entries alongside. Written entirely in English.

AUCTION 61 | Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 273
(ISRAEL, STATE OF).

Palestine. Extensive scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photographic illustrations, with manuscript entries alongside. Written entirely in English.

pp. 163 (excluding blanks). Original boards, worn. Folio.

1945-49

Est: $700 - $1,000
PRICE REALIZED $500
The owner of this scrapbook (most likely a woman) recounts the tumultuous events in Palestine from the years 1945-49. Aside from newspaper clippings, also included are her own original photographs. The compiler likely lived in Palestine and often provides her own account of events. Her tone is British, but her sympathies are emphatically Zionist.