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Zoltán Kluger photographs

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Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Archives at the Library of the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies [Contact Us]420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3703

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Zoltán Kluger (1896 – 1977) was an Israeli photographer. He was born in the city of Kecskemét in Hungary. In World War I, Kluger served in the Austro-Hungarian Aviation Troops as an airborne photographer. In the 1920s he emigrated to Berlin, where he worked as a press photographer. In 1933, he fled to Mandatory Palestine. There, he was employed at the Orient Press Photo Cooperation in Tel-Aviv and continued to work as a photographer. In 1958, he and his wife Sarah followed their son to the United States. In 1977, Zoltán Kluger passed away.

The collection contains several dozen photographs taken by Zoltán Kluger in various places in Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel. The whole collection dates between the 1930s and the 1950s. The photographs themselves are mostly undated.

The majority of the images show early Jewish settlements and cities from an aerial view. Besides, the collection includes some photographs of landscapes, agricultural life, and unknown people. A couple of photographs are captioned by hand in German, Hebrew and/or English. Mainly, there is just the name of the settlement or city recorded. The spelling of the names is partly based on German phonetics and therefore does not always correspondent to the usual English spelling.

The photographs are in a good shape and printed in various sizes. Most of them are stamped on verso with the photographer's stamp "The Orient Press Photo Co., Tel-Aviv". Some photographs have paper borders, a few others are glued onto a cardboard, and some appear to be drafts with marking for possible final prints.

Sold by Kedem Auction House, Lot 105, 2021 June 29.

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: Archives at the Library of the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Finding Aid Author
Jakob Stuermann
Finding Aid Date
2024, June 4
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Agriculture, 7 images of people working with farm animals, crops, and fish, undated.
Box 1 Folder 1
Agriculture: Dead Sea, 5 photographs of the Palestine Potash Company, Mount Sodom, and the Kibbutz Beth Ha'arava, 1937-1944.
Box 1 Folder 2
Architecture: 6 photographs of historical buildings and monuments, undated.
Box 1 Folder 3
Cities and settlements: 9 photographs of Dafna Kibbutz, Ein HaHoresh (En-HaHoresh), [Hadar Josef], and Haifa, undated.
Box 1 Folder 4
Cities and settlements: 12 photographs of [Jaroth Hacarmel], Kfar Yehoshua (Kfar Joshua), Kfar Vitkin (Kfar Witkin), and Kibbutz Amir, undated.
Box 1 Folder 5
Cities and settlements: 3 photographs of Ramat Yohanan (Jochanan), undated.
Box 1 Folder 6
Cities and settlements: 17 photographs of Zikhron Ya'akov, [Sewat Haim], [Sineyar], and Sha'ar HaAmakin, [Shikunim], undated.
Box 1 Folder 7
Cities and settlements: 27 photographs of Tel Aviv, Tiberias, and Yokneam, undated.
Box 1 Folder 8
Cities and settlements: 10 photographs of unidentified cities, undated.
Box 1 Folder 9
Landscapes: 4 photographs of mountains and deserts, undated.
Box 1 Folder 10
People: 11 photographs of children, workers, and religious observers, undated.
Box 1 Folder 11

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