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Jews Have Always Fought for Freedom. Edited by Joseph Brainin.

Auction 91 · Lot 167

Jews Have Always Fought for Freedom. Edited by Joseph Brainin.

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
$600

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 artwork by William Gropper and Arthur Szyk.

summary

Accompanied by: Western Union Telegram inviting Leon J Obermeyer to meet the Soviet Delegation. 19th July, 1943. This brochure was published by the National Reception Committee to the Delegation from the U.S.S.R, chaired by Albert Einstein. It was issued to welcome Solomon Michoels and Itzik Feffer who visited the United States, Canada and Mexico on behalf of the Soviet Jewish anti-Fascist Committee. 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, light wear. Sm. folio.
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