7 flags for Simchat Torah - colorful lithographic print on cardboard - rare versions. Israel, 1950s.
1. A child wearing "Maccabi" emblem's shirt holding the Israeli flag, on the other side are children in traditional dress, Moshe and Aharon, an ark, a lion, a tiger, a deer, and an eagle. The flag originally came out in the 1930s. Before us an Israeli version that was printed in the 1950s (published by A. Zaslansky)- Lithographic print on cardboard. This version does not appear in the 'Flags of Simchat Torah'.
2. Children of different ethnic backgrounds hold Simchat Torah flags. On the right, a Yemenite in peot and traditional dress, on the left, Israeli children dressed in Hebrew Scouts. In the center is a large Star of David and inside it are many small Star of David, the Ark whose doors 'open' and behind which are hidden three Torah scrolls. In The "Flags of Simchat Torah from the Jewish Art to Israeli Hebrew Culture", Eretz Israel Museum 2012, this flag appears in a late paper version from the 1960s printed by A. Zaslansky. Here is the early original printed by him on cardboard from the 1950s.
3. Ki MiZion Tezeh Tora 'A line of children holding Torah scrolls in front of the Ark, in the background is the Western Wall. Do not appear in the flags of Simchat Torah.
4. Children dance with Torah scrolls flags and fruits in their hands. Do not appear in the 'Flags of Simchat Torah'.
5. Lithograph on cardboard, children dancing in a circle with Israeli flags. Deer, lion, and eagle. Israel 1950s.
6. Children read in a Torah scroll. Lithograph on cardboard designed by Zvi Livni. To this flag were added paintings of sacred sites inspired by postcards from the Holy Land.
7. Lithographic print on cardboard. In the center of the flag is an old Jew reading the Torah, illustrations of an eagle, a lion, a tiger and a deer, and children dancing. Flag in the style of the illustrator Henry Hechtkopf.
Average size: 34x23 cm. general condition good.
