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Collection of Issues of the Newspaper "HaHayil" – Soldiers of the Jewish Brigade in Europe, 1946 / Invitation to a ...
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Collection of Issues of the Newspaper "HaHayil" – Soldiers of the Jewish Brigade in Europe, 1946 / Invitation to a Hanukkah party in Tobruk, Libya, 1942
HaHayil, daily newspaper for Jewish soldiers. "Western Europe" [probably Brussels], January to June, 1946. Issue Nos. 519-21, 523, 540, 547-48, 550, 557, 563, 570, 582, 594, 605, 625, 640. Hebrew.
16 issues of the newspaper "HaHayil." The newspaper was first published in Italy under the title "LaHayal…" ["To the Soldier, Daily Newsmagazine for Jewish Soldiers in Continental Europe"], but following the surrender of Nazi Germany, the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade were transferred to the Low Countries, the newspaper's editorial board moved to Brussels, and the paper then began to appear under its new title. The issues printed during the newspaper's second incarnation, in Brussels, document the defeat of Germany and the lives of Jewish soldiers in postwar Europe, containing a wealth of information regarding Palestine and the Jewish Yishuv there, in addition to dealing with the Holocaust and its survivors, and the Jewish Brigade and it soldiers.
Enclosed: A one-page invitation to a Hanukkah party in December 1942 in Tobruk, Libya, extended to the soldiers of the 5th and 11th RASC (water supply) Companies, and the 462nd, 178th, and 179th RASC (general) Companies.
Newspaper issues 34 cm; invitation sheet 29 cm. Condition varies.
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