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Lot #    18223
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 11:52:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Besuch in Eretz Yisrael
Author    [First Ed. - Signed Copy] Otto Abeles
City    Vienna - Leipzig
Publisher    R. Loewit Verlag
Publication Date    1926
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. Frontispiece, 102, [1] pp., 18 photo charts, 206:140 mm., usual light age staining, inscription on fly. A very good copy bound in the original paper wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    Impressions with black and white photos of his first journey to Palestine by Otto Abeles (1879–1945), author and Zionist worker in Austria and Holland. Abeles, who was born in Bruen (Brno), Moravia, was a founder of the Jewish students' organization Veritas. He was also a founder of the Zionist movement in Bohemia and Moravia. After completing his studies at the University of Vienna, he became legal advisor to the Austrian railways. Abeles contributed articles to the Zionist newspaper Die Welt. and other Zionist newspapers in German, and was an editor of the organ of the Zionist movement in Austria Juedische Zeitung. Together with Robert Stricker he founded the Zionist daily newspaper Wiener Morgenzeitung, working on its staff until 1926, when he became an emissary for Keren Hayesod and traveled through Western Europe as a lecturer. From 1930 he was director of Keren Hayesod in Amsterdam. He was deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and died immediately after its liberation. Among his works are Besuch in Eretz Yisrael (1926), impressions of his first journey to Palestine; Die Genesung (1920), a book of poems; and Zehn Juedinnen (1931), a book about famous Jewish women. With L. Bato he edited the almanac Juedischer Nationalkalender (1915/16–1921/22).
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
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Subject
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Other:    Travel
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica