The present catalogue includes an extensive chapter dedicated to Bezalel artists, including illustrated books, various objects, drawing and paintings. This chapter features numerous original sketches for works by Ze'ev Raban - Raban's sketchbook (lot 318), sketches for illustrations to the Song of Songs (lot 320), sketches of the signs of the Zodiac (lot 327), a large collection of photographs of works by Raban and Meir Gur Aryeh (lot 344), and many other unique items from the estate of Shlomo Kedmi, who succeeded Raban and Gur Aryeh in the Industrial Art Studio.
The chapter dedicated to Hebrew children's books features charming works by prominent writers and illustrators: stories by Benzion Raskin illustrated by Uriel Kahana, Chaim Hanft and Haim Goldberg; poems by Itzhak Katzenelson illustrated by Gertrud Caspari; rhymes by Ya'akov David Kamson illustrated by Else Wenz-Viëtor; children's book published by "Omanut", with color lithograph illustrations by "Chavurat Tsayarim" (Apter, Mutzelmacher, Kravtsov and Higer); pop-up books illustrated by David Gilboa; and other rare books.
The avant-garde chapter features Yiiddish, Hebrew and Russian books, with illustrations and cover-designs by important Russian avant-garde artists such as El Lissitzky, Joseph Chaikov, Issachar Ber Ryback, Mark Epstein and Nathan Altman.
The catalogue further features a variety of choice items representing the history of Palestine and Zionism, bibliophile works, letters, travelogues and maps of Palestine, photographs, postcards, rare Ladino periodicals, works by Safed-based artist Yosef Zvi Geiger, bibliophile works, a chapter dedicated to numismatics, and many more items.
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LOT 385:
Six Certificates of Inscription in the "Silver Book" of the JNF in Austria – Viennese Cantor Gerson Herz Margolies ...
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Six Certificates of Inscription in the "Silver Book" of the JNF in Austria – Viennese Cantor Gerson Herz Margolies – Vienna, 1932-1937 – Signed by Adolf Böhm, Founder of the Zionist Federation in Austria
Six certificates of inscription in the "Silver Book" of the JNF in Austria. The registrant – cantor Gerson Herz Margolies. Vienna: 1932-1937. Hebrew and German.
Identical illustrated certificates, printed in blue and silver. The name of the new registrant, "Chief Cantor Gerson Margolies" is handwritten in the center of each certificate (in German and Hebrew), alongside the names of the various organizations, which donated the sum required to register one in the book.
The certificates are hand-signed by of Adolf Böhm – founder of the Zionist Federation in Austria, and Chaim Tartakower – head of the JNF office in Austria; hand-numbered, and signed in print "KL."
Gerson Herz Margolies was born ca. 1885 in Kalvarija, Lithuania. Served as chief cantor in the liberal Tempelgasse Synagogue (Leopoldstädter Tempel), in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna. Margolies was a well-known cantor in his day – a tenor who toured extensively, and performed for Jewish communities around the world.
Margolies was a devoted Zionist activist. According to newspaper reports from the period, he immigrated to Palestine in 1935, but apparently did not settle there. Other sources, including an identification card, issued in his name by the Jewish community of Vienna (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien; see previous lot), indicate that Margolies served as the Tempelgasse synagogue cantor at least until June 1938; the synagogue was burnt to the ground during the Kristallnacht pogrom, several months later. Margolies managed to escape to England, and from there he continued on to the USA; he died in New York in 1953, and, in accordance with his last will and testament, was buried in Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem. Recordings of his performances, which were never published, are found in the archives of " ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, " in Tel Aviv.
Certificates: approx. 23X32 cm; placed in three frames (two certificates per frame.) Frames: 34.5X47.5 cm. Condition varies. Stains. Blemishes. Minor tears to one certificate. Certificates unexamined outside of frames.
