Grajewo
Grajewo - Izrael Waks
1905-1991
uzupełnij jewishbialystok@gmail.com 
WiT
About 230 items from the estate of Israel Waks.
Poland, Belgium, England, Palestine and other places, 1920s and 1930s (some later items).
Israel Waks (1905-1991) was born in Grajewo, served as the secretary of the Revisionist Movement in Poland and as the secretary of Ze'ev Jabotinsky in Paris for three year. In 1934 he married Luka Waks (née Kahana) and in the same year they immigrated to Palestine. The home of the couple Waks on Sheinkin Street in Tel-Aviv served as a "mail box" of Etzel headquarters and as a meeting point for the organizations' commander, Menachem Begin.
This collection includes:
* Handwritten notes and receipts (Grajewo and Bialystok, early 1920s), among them two letters from Waks's father. * Handwritten and printed invitations to conventions and events on behalf of youth movements and Jewish organizations in Grajewo and other towns in Poland: Hashomer Hatza'ir, "Tarbut" chapter. "Bnei Zion" Zionist organization, and more. * about 100 postcards and letters sent to Waks (among them family letters). * British passports of Waks and his wife. * Member cards of the Zionist Revisionist Association in France, 1929-1930. * Letters from the Zionist Revisionist organization in Belgium and Poland, the New Zionist Organization and World Union of Revisionist Zionists. * Letters from newspaper editorials: JTA, Letzte Nayes, Der Nayer Veg, Belgisher Haynt, and more. * 13 photographs from the 17th Zionist Congress in Basel (1931), showing Waks with Nahum Sokolow, Uri Zvi Greenberg and others. * Entrance tickets to the 17th Zionist Congress in Basel, entrance ticket to the 18th Zionist Congress in Prague (1933), delegate-certificate to the sixth national convention of Tzohar in Poland (1934). * Entrance ticket to sessions of the first Knesset, June 1949. * Two printed letters from Menachem Begin (official stationery), signed by Begin, 1967, 1977.
Size and condition vary. Some items are worn and in fair-poor condition.
Israel Waks (1905-1991) was born in Grajewo, served as the secretary of the Revisionist Movement in Poland and as the secretary of Ze'ev Jabotinsky in Paris for three year. In 1934 he married Luka Waks (née Kahana) and in the same year they immigrated to Palestine. The home of the couple Waks on Sheinkin Street in Tel-Aviv served as a "mail box" of Etzel headquarters and as a meeting point for the organizations' commander, Menachem Begin.
This collection includes:
* Handwritten notes and receipts (Grajewo and Bialystok, early 1920s), among them two letters from Waks's father. * Handwritten and printed invitations to conventions and events on behalf of youth movements and Jewish organizations in Grajewo and other towns in Poland: Hashomer Hatza'ir, "Tarbut" chapter. "Bnei Zion" Zionist organization, and more. * about 100 postcards and letters sent to Waks (among them family letters). * British passports of Waks and his wife. * Member cards of the Zionist Revisionist Association in France, 1929-1930. * Letters from the Zionist Revisionist organization in Belgium and Poland, the New Zionist Organization and World Union of Revisionist Zionists. * Letters from newspaper editorials: JTA, Letzte Nayes, Der Nayer Veg, Belgisher Haynt, and more. * 13 photographs from the 17th Zionist Congress in Basel (1931), showing Waks with Nahum Sokolow, Uri Zvi Greenberg and others. * Entrance tickets to the 17th Zionist Congress in Basel, entrance ticket to the 18th Zionist Congress in Prague (1933), delegate-certificate to the sixth national convention of Tzohar in Poland (1934). * Entrance ticket to sessions of the first Knesset, June 1949. * Two printed letters from Menachem Begin (official stationery), signed by Begin, 1967, 1977.
Size and condition vary. Some items are worn and in fair-poor condition.
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