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Sepher ha-Ma'atzar ve-ha-Galuth (Shalosh Shanim le-Galutheinu) / Three Years in Exile: A History of Jewish Palestinian Detainees in Africa

Auction 38 · Lot 243

Sepher ha-Ma'atzar ve-ha-Galuth (Shalosh Shanim le-Galutheinu) / Three Years in Exile: A History of Jewish Palestinian Detainees in Africa

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
$1,800

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(ZIONISM)

printer

October

Place

Special Camp Gilgil, Kenya Colony

Publication

1947

Description

Mimeographed. Hebrew text with separate English title. Pasted inside front cover map of East Africa and locations of camps reserved for the Jewish Palestinian exiles. Pasted inside back cover, graph containing statistics of numbers of prisoners, incarcerations, releases and escapes, month by month for years 1944-1947. With black-and-white photos

summary

This remarkable document was produced by members of the Jewish underground who were deported from Palestine to British colonies in East Africa: Eritrea, Sudan and Kenya. For obvious reasons, the contributors to this volume assume pen names, with the notable exception of Revisionist poet Uri Zvi Greenberg. According to the introduction, the volume was produced within the camps themselves ANTHONY: AFTER THIS LOT, MAKE A HEADER FOR THE NEXT SECTION - ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
ff. 321, (4). Trace foxed. Folio
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