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No Place, No Publisher, 1948. Hardback. 1st edition. Later Cloth with covers bound in, Oblong 4to, Aproximately 100 leaves, mostly photographic plates. Includes 175 photographic illustrations. Introductory text and captions (many of Biblical origin) in English, Hebrew and Yiddish. "This album seeks to present a ...picture of the wanderings of the 'remnants' of European Jewry - wanderings that began at the conclusion of the last war and still continue..." (From the introduction) . A collection of 175 black and white photographs documenting the "Bericha" - - the 'illegal' underground flight of surviving European Jews into Palestine immediately following the Holocaust. This was the great exodus of European Jews following the holocaust, who illegally crossed the borders of Soviet-occupied lands and made their way as illegal immigrants to the shores of Palestine. Special sections of this album are dedicated to children and orphans who took part in this immigration effort, and another section documents the… Read More

N.P.: Published by the Bricha movement, 1948. Hardcover. g-. Oblong quarto. 9.5x13.5". Unpaginated. Signed by Ephraim Dekel in pen, in Yiddish, at the top of the title page. This scarce self-published book by the Bericha (or Bricha) movement, this is the only existing contemporary photographic work to document the migration of Holocaust survivors and refugees from the DP camps and post-war centers of Europe in their effort to make Aliyah to Mandatory Palestine. Through the assistance and coordination of the Bricha movement (meaning "escape" in Hebrew) the Jewish refugees would first make their way over land by foot to Italy and Southern Europe, and then attempt to reach Palestine, in violation of the White Paper of 1939, which severely limited Jewish immigration. The Bricha was supported by the Haganah as part of what is called "Aliyah Bet," the post-war clandestine movement of survivors and refugees to Palestine. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, these immigration… Read More

N.P.: Published by the Bricha movement, 1948. Softcover. vg to near fine. Oblong quarto. 9.5x13.5". Unpaginated. Housed in a custom brown leather over marbled paper clamshell box, with gilt lettering on the spine. Original photo-illustrated tan paper wrappers, with black lettering. Signed by Ephraim Dekel in pen, in Yiddish, at the top of the title page. This scarce self-published book by the Bericha (or Bricha) movement, this is the only existing contemporary photographic work to document the migration of Holocaust survivors and refugees from the DP camps and post-war centers of Europe in their effort to make Aliyah to Mandatory Palestine. Through the assistance and coordination of the Bricha movement (meaning "escape" in Hebrew) the Jewish refugees would first make their way over land by foot to Italy and Southern Europe, and then attempt to reach Palestine, in violation of the White Paper of 1939, which severely limited Jewish immigration. The Bricha was supported by the Haganah as part of what… Read More