PALASTINA 300 BILDER - Palestine 300 photos - edited by George Landaur. Published by MEYER & JJESSEN Munich, 1925.
A book in an album edition with a huge variety of 300 rare and important photographs in black and white, from the best photographers who took in Eretz Israel in the early 20th century - views of sites, people, life scenes in the cities and colonies. Among them: the Old City of Jerusalem, its gates, and its inhabitants in traditional dress, the Temple Mount, worshipers at the Western Wall, the Jewish Quarter, the Mount of Olives, Rachel's Tomb, rare photographs of Jews immigrating to Meron at the celebration of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Lag B'Omer, as well as Jews studying Torah in Meron, Yemenite Studying Torah in Jerusalem, merchants from Eretz Israel, the Dead Sea, Jericho, Jaffa and the port, Haifa, Tiberias, Tel Aviv, Rishon Lezion (Wine vineyards and more), Rosh Pina, photographs of Jewish settlement and land workers in, and many more. A map of the Land of Israel appears at the end of the book.
X, 242 p. 30 cm. Thick and fine paper. Very good condition.
