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Collection of photographs of Theodor Herzl. by KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL

Creator: KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
Stock Code 88195
Vienna and Israel, 1920
£2,500
Album 1: 26 photographs and postcards of Herzl, his family and fellow Zionists.

Album 2: Photographs, postcards, magazine clippings, 2 small brass reliefs showing Herzl, his family, the Zionist congresses and related scenes arranged in an album (65 items in total).

Album 3: Scenes from a memorial service for Theodor Herzl, showing Zionist-Socialist youth organisations (Kartell Zionistisch-Sozialistischer Jugendverbande) and their leaders, some with flags, in uniforms and insignia, pass by the graves of Herzl and his parents in the Doblinger Cemetery; with a few scenes captured on the streets of the city. This album offers a unique insight into European Zionist culture with its use of social clubs for different age groups organised in military fashion.
Vintage photographs pasted in three landscape photo albums, housed in a black solander box. Stationary with stamp of Karen Kajemeth LeIsrael Judischer Nationalfond/Jewish National Fund serves as title-page. 78 original black-and-white original photographs (mostly 135 x 85mm) arranged on 37 leaves, 'Photo Benedikt, Wien' embossed on most images.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1920-1949
Styles / Movements:	Black & White
Dealer Reference #:	88195
Incollect Reference #:	615575

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