Selling here are 2 items for the price of one! You are looking at
the private Ex-Libris of the Mayor Of Jerusalem in the 1950's Gershon
Agron aka Agronsky. Also is his personal signature on the inside page
cover of the book where his ex libris appears. You will also be getting
the book which is entitled Otzar Hashaymot printed in Vilna in 1878.
Agronsky inscribed his signature on the page in 1936. The Book Otzar HaShaymot is a Name concordance of the Bible, ie you can find any name mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The following is the information I found on Agron on Wikipedia: Biography Gershon (Agronsky) Agron was born in the Ukraine and emigrated with his family to the United States at the age of five. He grew up in Philadelphia. [1]During World War I, he fought with the Jewish Legion in Palestine.
From 1920 to 1921, he worked for the Press Office of the Zionist
Commission. Until his immigration to Palestine in 1924, he worked as the
editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and correspondent for several international press agencies, including The Times of London and the Manchester Guardian. In 1932, Agron founded “The Palestine Post,” an English-language newspaper that was renamed the Jerusalem Post in 1950.[2] Among the paper's earliest reporters was Agron's nephew, Martin Agronsky, later a famous American television journalist. On various occasions, Agron served as envoy of the World Zionist Organization. He was a member of the Jewish Agency
delegation to the UN conference in San Francisco. In 1949-1951, Agron
headed the Israel's Government Information Service. In 1955, he was
elected mayor of Jerusalem. He remained in office until his death in
1959. During his term, he played a key role in the development of the
western sectors of the city.[3]
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