collection of Broadsides: History of Secular Zionism

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First Half Twentieth Century

Group of c.36 broadsides relating to the history of secular Zionism. Of particular interest are three documents of rabbinic support for the Jewish National Fund (Keren Hayesod and Keren Kayemeth Le-Israel), one typographically elegant with woodcut initial letters, historiated, in ginger ink; a second bearing the endorsements of Rabbi Meir Simcha Hakohen of Dvinsk and the rebbes of Kozhnitz and Yablona; and a third, a roster of hundreds of prominent rabbis from around the globe (1930)