Mandatory (11 results)

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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Photo by Zoltan (Zvi) Kluger (February 8, 1896 - May 16, 1977) was an Austro-Hungarian born Israeli photographer. He is known as one of the most important photographers in Mandatory Palestine. (illustrator). Postally unused postcard. 142 x100 mm. Divided back. In Hebrew and English. Small stain in bottom right corner. Zoltan (Zvi) Kluger (February 8, 1896 - May 16, 1977) was an Austro-Hungarian born Israeli photographer. He is known as one of the most important photographers in Mandatory Palestine. Zoltan Kluger was born in the city of Kecskemet in Hungary in 1896. During World War I he served as an airborne photographer in the Austro-Hungarian Aviation Troops. At the end of the 1920s he emigrated to Berlin, where he worked as a press photographer. In April 1933, with the rise of the Nazis to power, he arrived in Palestine as a tourist, and then received a British certificate to stay, thanks to the intervention of Moshe Shertok (later Sharett). Later that year, Nachman Shifrin, whom Kluger had met in Berlin, founded the "East Photography Society for the Press" in Tel Aviv. In 1934 Kluger joined Shifrin and became a partner and chief photographer. Kluger's prominent clients were the JNF and Keren Hayesod photography department, which sent Kluger to photograph economic enterprises and immigrants. In 1937 Kluger took a series of 250 aerial photographs, commissioned by Zalman Schocken. The book "Ele Pnei Israel" was published, in which Kluger's photographs are accompanied by a text by Moshe Shamir. Kluger married Sarah, and the two had a son, Paul, who was sent in 1950 by the Israeli Air Force to study in the United States and remained there. In 1958, Kluger and his wife immigrated to the United States following their son. His wife threatened to commit suicide if they didn't follow him. Kluger opened a photography shop in New York. At the same time, he made a living by filming events, mainly of the Hungarian community in New York. Shortly after the couple arrived in the United States, his wife fell ill and died, and he remarried to Irena. Kluger's mother and his sister Elsa survived the Holocaust in Hungary. His mother died in 1949, while her daughter, husband and children immigrated to the United States in 1956 and settled in California. Zoltan Kluger died in Manhattan, New York in 1977. At his departure from Israel, he left behind a total of some 50,000 negatives, which were distributed among several public archives, including the Keren Hayesod collection in the Central Zionist Archives, the Jewish National Fund collection, the Government Press Office, the State Archives and the IDF Archives. In 1968, a collection of about 40,000 negatives from the years 1933-1948 came to the State Archives, and in 2017 the entire collection was uploaded to the State Archives, which includes a useful search engine for pictures. Zoltan Kluger works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Israel, including the Israel Museum. In 2008, the first solo exhibition of Zoltan Kluger was held at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv. The exhibition was named "Zoltan Kluger - Principal Photographer, 1958-1933", curated by Dr. Ruth Oren and Guy Raz.

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An early Zionist cigarette card photo album during the British Mandate period documenting Jewish paramilitary forces, settlement defense, athletics, and infrastructure development in Mandatory Palestine, likely produced in the 1930s-1940s as an educational and propaganda tool. The images illustrate the development of defense forces, collective agricultural settlements, and youth training movements that formed the institutional foundation of Jewish state building in the region. British Mandatory Palestine, c. 1940s. 200 black-and-white silver gelatin photographic cigarette cards mounted in original printed album, with Hebrew captions and descriptions. Folio. Original illustrated stiff wraps featuring a soldier in a sun helmet scanning the horizon, rifle slung over his shoulder. A rare Zionist cigarette card photo album documenting the military, security, and athletic institutions of the Yishuv (the Jewish community in pre-state Palestine) during the British Mandate period. The album serves as both propaganda and educational material, designed to instill national pride and discipline among the Jewish population, particularly youth involved in the Haganah, the Palmach, and other proto-military defense organizations. The imagery and text emphasize the dual ethos of physical preparedness and self-defense alongside agricultural labor and nation-building. The album consists of photographic cigarette cards depicting key aspects of Zionist security forces, settlement defense, and sporting achievements in Mandate Palestine. The first sections focus on military training, featuring members of the Jewish Settlement Police, Notrim (Jewish auxiliary police under the British), and early paramilitary forces. Uniformed men in sun helmets, keffiyehs, or British-style caps are shown patrolling rural roads, manning watchtowers, practicing marksmanship, and training in hand-to-hand combat. The inclusion of women in certain images suggests their role in auxiliary units, foreshadowing the integration of women in the Israeli military. Several images capture women in agricultural labor, construction, and fishing industries, highlighting their integral role in building and sustaining early Jewish settlements, particularly within the kibbutz movement. Additionally, photographs of women in aviation training, including piloting gliders, showcase early efforts to integrate them into technical and military fields. A later section transitions into the "Wall and Tower" (Homa U'Migdal) settlements-strategically built fortified agricultural outposts constructed overnight to establish a Jewish presence in contested areas. Photographs show men and women erecting wooden watchtowers, carrying supplies, and working cooperatively to secure land under hostile conditions. These images capture the pioneering spirit of the Yishuv, where defense and agriculture were inseparable components of state-building. The final third of the album focuses on athletics, reflecting the Zionist ideal of the "New Jew"-physically strong, self-sufficient, and ready to defend the homeland. Included are images of Jewish sports leagues, fencing, boxing, wrestling, weightlifting, and track and field, with a notable photograph of a female athlete wearing a "Ramah" Maccabi shirt, symbolizing Jewish participation in international sports and the Maccabiah Games. The album also features aviation imagery, including early Jewish pilots training in gliders, an essential precursor to the formation of the Israeli Air Force. Covers show mild wear, with minor foxing and wear to spine. Interior pages exhibit mild creasing to margins, pages and photographs clean. Some cigarette cards are slightly lifting at the edges, but all appear present. Overall very good condition. A visually rich artifact of Zionist history, this cigarette card album offers rare photographic documentation of Jewish military organization, settlement defense, and athletic prowess during a crucial period leading to Israeli statehood. Complete or near-complete examples of such albums are scarce and highly sought after.

Dubek Cigarettes photographic album of British Mandatory Palestine produced in the 1930s-1940s documents the development of Jewish agricultural settlements, industry, security organizations, and cultural institutions within the Yishuv during the late Mandate period. The album presents a visual narrative of Zionist nation building through images of collective agricultural labor, industrial production, settlement construction, and educational life. Such imagery circulated widely in the interwar and wartime decades as part of broader efforts to promote Jewish settlement in Palestine and to demonstrate the institutional capacity of the Yishuv to sustain a modern society. The photographs therefore document a formative phase in the development of Jewish communal infrastructure and social organization prior to the establishment of the State of Israel. Dubek Cigarettes. Album of British Mandatory Palestine. Palestine: Dubek Cigarettes, circa 1930s-1940s. Hebrew language cigarette card album containing 200 black and white photographic cards mounted within printed pages accompanied by Hebrew captions and descriptions. The photographs depict agricultural labor associated with kibbutz communities, including images of women harvesting crops, working in fisheries, and participating in factory production. Additional cards document industrial development such as textile production, citrus agriculture and export, and cigarette manufacturing. Several sections show security and defense activity including Jewish guards, patrols, and fortified settlements associated with protective measures adopted by Jewish communities during the Mandate period. Other photographs highlight infrastructure including bridges, roads, water towers, and public buildings, along with educational and cultural institutions such as libraries, schools, and youth activities. Scenes of public gatherings and celebrations further emphasize the formation of communal identity within the Jewish population of Palestine. During the final decades of British administration in Palestine, Jewish settlement expanded through organized agricultural collectives, urban development, and new infrastructure projects supported by Zionist institutions. Visual publications such as cigarette card albums functioned both as educational materials and as popular visual media presenting the progress of Jewish settlement and economic development. Images of collective labor, fortified communities, and modern infrastructure illustrate the practical and ideological foundations of the Yishuv's political aspirations during the Mandate era. Folio album in original illustrated stiff wrappers with string binding, containing 200 mounted cigarette cards with printed Hebrew captions. Moderate wear to covers with edge rubbing, toning, and light soiling; interior pages show mild foxing with cards largely well preserved, a few slightly lifting but present. Overall good condition. The album offers a substantial photographic record of Jewish settlement activity and institutional life in Mandatory Palestine during the decades preceding Israeli statehood.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1987 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 266 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 266.

Early views of life under British colonial rule in Mandatory Palestine. 1920s photo archive consisting of 12 silver gelatin photographs measuring around 3.5" x 2.5" each. Circa 1920s. An evocative and unusually varied visual archive from 1920s Mandatory Palestine, this collection captures everyday life and social hierarchies during the British occupation of the Levant. Taken during a critical era following the fall of the Ottoman Empire and before the full thrust of Zionist settlement, these images offer rare glimpses of Palestinian Arab communities-including women, clerics, children, merchants, and street workers-across both rural and urban landscapes. Several photos appear to depict scenes in and around Jerusalem, including a striking street portrait of an elder man in traditional Arab dress with a keffiyeh and striped abaya, standing beside a fez-capped official or guard in front of a stone façade, possibly in the Old City. Another image shows a procession of clergy and camel handlers near what appears to be a medieval gate or fortress wall-indicative of pilgrimage traffic or religious observance, with camels loaded for transport. A powerful composition captures three women in dark veils and flowing garments speaking beneath a tree, with rural hills and a village in the distance. Street life and labor are emphasized in one image where a young boy and several veiled women draw water at a stone cistern; one woman balances a large vessel on her head, her face and body almost entirely obscured. A separate print shows a group of women-some in Western dress and hats, others in religious garb-posing together at the edge of a sea or lake, possibly near Tiberias or the Sea of Galilee. . Another photograph depicts a group of men in keffiyehs and Western suits gathered in what may be a town square-possibly Amman or Ramleh-with modern construction visible in the background, illustrating the mixing of colonial infrastructure and traditional society. Photographs of Mandatory Palestine from this transitional decade-between Ottoman defeat and the Arab Revolt -are increasingly rare, especially those depicting ordinary Palestinians rather than military or Zionist institutions. Very good condition overall.