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KLUGER, Zoltan, photographer (1896-1977) and others. -- Aspects of Jewish Development in Palestine. A Photographic Record, submitted to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry by the Jewish Agency of Palestine. Jerusalem: March, 1946. Oblong 4° (340 x 35mm). Mounted letterpress title and caption slips. 60 mounted black and white photographs, ranging mostly from 115 x 175mm to 234 x 170mm in portrait and landscape, one with stamp to verso of Z. Kluger of the Orient Press Photo Co., Tel Aviv, folding map in pocket to rear pastedown. (One photograph creased, two coming loose from mounts.) Original vellum, upper cover with small central carved wooden motif of Palestine, reversed calf spine with external stitching (some light soiling, heavier to lower portion of front cover, extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped).
EXTREMELY RARE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF JEWISH DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN PALESTINE. This album was produced as a piece of Zionist propaganda for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. This was a committee of six British and six American representatives appointed in 1945 'to examine political, economic, and social conditions in Palestine as they bear upon the problem of Jewish immigration and settlement therein and the well-being of the peoples now living therein'. The committee travelled to, and heard testimony in, Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Baghdad, Riyadh and Amman. This album was presented to members of the committee by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and includes images of clearing of swamps, building of new villages and towns such as Tel Aviv and progress in settling the Negev desert. There are some 28 aerial photographs, including shots of Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, which are probably the work of Zoltan Kluger. Born in Hungary, Kluger spent 1933-1958 as chief photographer at the Orient Press Photo Co agency in Tel Aviv, as was a pioneer of non-military aerial photography in Palestine. ONE OF PROBABLY ONLY 12 COPIES: the only copy that can be traced in institutions is at the University of Iowa; ABPC-online records no copies sold at auction since 1975.
EXTREMELY RARE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF JEWISH DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN PALESTINE. This album was produced as a piece of Zionist propaganda for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. This was a committee of six British and six American representatives appointed in 1945 'to examine political, economic, and social conditions in Palestine as they bear upon the problem of Jewish immigration and settlement therein and the well-being of the peoples now living therein'. The committee travelled to, and heard testimony in, Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Baghdad, Riyadh and Amman. This album was presented to members of the committee by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and includes images of clearing of swamps, building of new villages and towns such as Tel Aviv and progress in settling the Negev desert. There are some 28 aerial photographs, including shots of Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, which are probably the work of Zoltan Kluger. Born in Hungary, Kluger spent 1933-1958 as chief photographer at the Orient Press Photo Co agency in Tel Aviv, as was a pioneer of non-military aerial photography in Palestine. ONE OF PROBABLY ONLY 12 COPIES: the only copy that can be traced in institutions is at the University of Iowa; ABPC-online records no copies sold at auction since 1975.