Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 162
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
(ISRAEL.) HENRIETTA SZOLD. Typed Letter Signed, as Chairperson of the Committee of the Jewish Community, to the "New Management of Bezalel," in Hebrew, sending condolences upon the death of the director of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Mr. Budko. 1 page, 4to, "Committee of the Jewish Community Jerusalem" stationery; tiny staple holes at upper right, two holes punched in right margin, folds. Jerusalem, 26 July 1940

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". . . The Bezalel institution . . . attract[s] youth enthused by art and the spiritual heritage of our nation from all parts of the Diaspora. The deceased, who established the new Bezalel . . . , knew how to unite the institution's past and its first founders' efforts with the desires and hopes of the present . . . ."