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Lot #    21068
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 12:13:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Postcards: Views of the Colonies Erez- Israel
Title (Hebrew)    מושבות ארץ-ישראל
Author    Eliahu Bros.
City    Jaffa & Tel Aviv
Publisher    Ha-Ahim Eliyahu
Publication Date    193?
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    18 cards, octavo 90:140 mm., light age staining.
          
Detailed
Description		    Eighteen monochrome fold-out postcards depicting scenes during the settlement of Erez Israel prior to the founding of the state of Israel. The varied scenes show a beautiful country prior to its modern development. Different communities and activities are depicted in this evocative photographs. Among the scenes of Mikveh-Israel, where a little girl holding a bucket stands in the middle on a path with farmers working on both sides of the path; Petach Tikvah, Herzel st., quieter and more bucolic than the current city; Nahlat-Jehuda, the girls training farm on the land of K. K. L.; Rehovoth; Hedeka; Zichron Jacob; Beth Alpha, the herd on the land of K.K. L.; Nahalal, Agricultural school for girls on the land of K.K. L., here depicting a girl feeding hens; Rosh Pinah; the Jordan, with a photo of a man standing and paddling a small boat; and many others. ,p> K. K. L stands for the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael), the land purchase and development fund of the Zionist Organization. It was founded on December 29, 1901 at the Fifth Zionist Congress at Basle, which resolved: "The JNF shall be the eternal possession of the Jewish people. Its funds shall not be used except for the purchase of lands in Palestine and Syria." The Hebrew name comes from the talmudic dictum about good deeds "the fruits of which a man enjoys in this world, while the capital abides (ha-keren kayyemet) for him in the world to come" (Pe'ah 1:1).
          
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Israel:    Checked
  
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Kind of Judaica
Other:    Postcards