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Collection of 'Happy New Year' postcards - customs and Jewish scenes, early 20th century

Opening price: $120

Commission: 22%

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22 "Shana Tova" postcards showing customs and Jewish scenes - Publishers, places, and various print dates - Williamsburg, Hebrew Publishing Company, postcards printed in Germany and more. Early 20th century.

Among them: The Zionist Train Postcard - considered the first "Zionist" postcard issued by the Williamsburg company in New York - A girl playing in a toy train, and permits to enter Eretz Israel fly out of the locomotive's chimney, The lyrics in Yiddish at the bottom of the postcard ensure that travelers to Eretz Israel are immersed in hope and security, will bless the new year in the true victory. Another "Happy New Year" postcard also appears in "Central" - Warsaw, with a similar motif: In which a boy and a girl are seen standing next to an open closet with banknotes with Yiddish inscriptions on immigration and the Land of Israel - "100,000 dunams in the land of Israel", 'Certificate' And so, a rare 'Happy New Year' postcard - Jews during prayer in Yom Kippur confession, 'Happy New Year' published by Williamsburg describing the new inventions, Jewish customs: groom, bride, circumcision, and other Happy New Year postcards With Jewish motifs.

Most of them were not sent by mail. general condition good - very good.

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192. Collection of 'Happy New Year' postcards - customs and Jewish scenes, early 20th century