Yidishe Laystung in Erets Iśroel. Fier Yohr Tsienistishe Arbeyt: Fakten un Tsifern (Jewish Performance in the Land of Israel. Four Years of Zionist Work: Facts and Figures)
[Buenos Aires]: Tsiunistisher Federatsye in Argentina, 1922. First edition. Softcover. Thin octavo. 12pp. [ + 8 un-numbered plates]. Light brown staple-bound paper wrappers, with black text on the front cover. This scarce promotional publication produced by the Zionist Federation of Argentina, contains text, statistics and images relating to successful agricultural, construction and land development projects by Jewish immigrants to Palestine. The middle section includes 8 pages containing a total of 24 b/w photographic reproductions showing farming, building projects and land cultivation, including early images of the Rishon Letzion area, Kibbutz Degania, Ekron (Mazkeret Batya), Tel Aviv, Moshav Ben Shemen, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, The Bezalel Art School, and plans for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, among others. All images are captioned. The final page contains a short statement from British-Jewish industrialist, financier and politician Sir Alfred Mond (1868-1930).
Text throughout in Yiddish.
Wrappers with with stains rust stains along the staples, and some additional minor smudges and water stains to the covers. Light rubbing to corners. Interior with minor to light sporadic water stains, however images are all clean. Wrappers and interior in very good- condition overall. vg-. Item #52628
Yiddish title: אידישע לייסטונג אין ארץ ישראל. פיער יאהר ציוניסטישע ארבייט: פאקטען און ציפערן
Publisher: ציוניסטישער פעדעראציע אין ארגענטינא
This scarce edition is a variant of the slightly more common printing, published by the Karen Ha-Yesod organiztion in London the same year (1 holding on OCLC). The typefont and layout here are every so slightly different from the London edition, but the text and images remain the same. There are no copies of this Argentine edition on OCLC.
Price: $650.00