Igeret Min HaBayit [“Letter from Home.”]

Estimate: $700–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(ISRAEL, STATE OF).

printer

Spring

Place

Kibbutz Alonim

Publication

1944

Description

Mimeograph pamplet prepared and sent to Jewish soldiers of Kibbutz Alonim fighting in World War Two. With 8 charming illustrations.

summary

Penned as a letter by the Kibbutz children to their fathers serving in Europe, in which daily life at home is described. The children innocently talk of a hike taken to Kiryat Tivon, helping with the newborn babies in the Kibbutz nursery, and hopes of a trip to the beach in Caesarea; blissfully unaware of the pangs of homesickness their letter was sure to induce on its faraway readers. Located in the Lower Galilee, Kibbutz Alonim was founded by members of HaShomer HaTza’ir in 1936.

pp. 20. Original pictorial wrappers. 12mo.

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