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LOT 12:
A memorial album for the victims of the First World War - Bulgaria, 1919
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A memorial album for the victims of the First World War - Bulgaria, 1919
A unique memorial designed album in memory of the Jewish soldiers who fought in the Bulgarian army and fell in the First World War. Sofia, [1919], Hebrew, Ladino, and Bulgarian. Painter: P. Shlambor (ф. шламбор).
At the beginning of the album, a lamentation about 'The Jews who fell, by Lubomir Bobensky 'your memory and heroism will never be forgotten ... you liberated the Balkans ... '. Four title pages: in one a figure of Moses and David, the other in color with a figure of a woman kneeling on a Jewish monument with a memorial inscription for the Jewish fallen in Ladino language. On the third title page, a symbolic drawing of the twelve tribes, the verse: "הצבי ישראל על במותיך חלל איך נפלו גיבורים'', Star of David and the years: 1912-1918. Between these years, the Jewish soldiers featured on the album fell. On the fourth title page, a painting of the Temple Mount and the wall in a colorful lithographic print. The album includes photographs and details of no less than 400 Jewish soldiers - the names of each of them, and the short years of his life (most of them were born in the late 19th century and fall in the war in their youth). Five portraits per page.
Many of the Bulgarian Jews who enlisted in the Bulgarian army excelled in their position and reached the rank of officer. Bulgaria took an active and central part in the Balkan War alongside the Central Powers. Due to the large number of Jewish conscripts in the army, the entire public life of the Jewish community was completely silenced. During World War I, about 714 members of the Jewish community in Bulgaria fell, 28 of them officers, some of them senior. Many of the fallen were important public figures in the Jewish communities in the various Bulgarian cities.
The fate of many of the soldiers featured on the album is unknown from any other source, and the album before us is the only historical source that mentions their names, pictures, origins, and years of life.
[43] leaves, 25X18 cm. A few stains. A few peels of paint on the cover. Good condition.
