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Auction 13 · Lot 255
Jews Have Always Fought for Freedom. Edited by Joseph Brainin.
- Estimate
- $400–$600
- Hammer price
- $750
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(HOLOCAUST)
Place
New York
Publication
(1943)
Description
With numerous photographic illustrations as well as work by Arthur Szyk and William Gropper.
summary
Published by the National Reception Committe to the Delegation from the U.S.S.R, chaired by Albert Einstein. Issued to welcome Solomon Michoels and Itzik Feffer who visited the United States, Canada, Mexico and England on behalf of the Soviet Jewish anti-Fascist Committe. Both these celebrated men of Jewish culture were later brutally killed in the anti-Jewish purges of Joseph Stalin’s last years of rule. See J. Rubenstein & V.P. Naumov, Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (2001)
pp.24. Original pictorial wrappers designed by Szyk, upper cover worn. Sm. folio
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