LEHI [STERN GANG] AND IRGUN
Lot 407

LEHI [STERN GANG] AND IRGUN

Closed21 April 2016

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LEHI [STERN GANG] AND IRGUN

L'Maan HaTzedek, L'Maan HaHerut, L'Maan HaShalom. [For the sake of justice, for the sake of freedom and for the sake of peace. Lehi's statement to UNSCOP.] [Jerusalem: 1947.] 2° (330 x 210mm). 64pp. Cyclostyled text in Hebrew. (Occasional faint soiling.) Original green printed card wrappers, punch-holed and stitched with a filing tag (rubbed, nicks and creases to extremities, some occasional soiling). [With:] -- HaHazit [The newspaper of Lehi]. [N.p.:] 1944. 2° (330 x 210mm). 24pp. Cyclostyled text in Hebrew. (Worn and soiled, marginal tears throughout, sometimes into text with associated small losses. [With:] -- Notice. [N.p.:]1948. Broadside (348 x 260mm). Text in Hebrew. (Some light staining.) [With:] IRGUN. TaZkir L'Vaadeh HaMeyuchedet Shel Irgun HaUmot HaMeuchadot L'Inyan Eretz Yisroel. [Memorandum to UNSCOP concerning Palestine.] [N.p.:] 1947. 2° (330 x 210mm). Printed on rectos only, text in Hebrew. 18pp. (Possibly lacking final leaf, some soiling, marginal tears.) Stapled self wrappers (last leaf loose). [With:] -- Ha'Yev Matkiph HaMilchama Mitchedeshet Ha'Am B'Sakanah. [The enemy is strong, the war is renewed, the people are endangered.] [N.p.:] 9 July 1947 (dated in ink manuscript). Broadside (310 x 475mm). Hebrew text printed in blue. (Vertical creasefold, short repaired tear to upper margin, a few spots.) [With:] 4 small memorial posters for fallen Irgun members, 1945-1948. [With:] A lithographic poster in a mixture of cursive and square Hebrew script calling for a strike in support of illegal Jewish immigration and against the British authorities. Haifa: [n.d., but c.1947].(330 x 158mm). Sold with one other poster.

SCARCE PAMPHLETS AND EPHEMERA, several of the pieces stating that they should be circulated hand-to-hand between supporters of Lehi and Irgun. It is interesting that both organisations issued statements to UNSCOP (see lot 410) setting out their agendas and case.