{"product_id":"on-the-right-and-on-the-left-hebrew-political-cartoon-book-by-yosef-bass-tel-aviv-1942","title":"On the Right and on the Left: Hebrew Political Cartoon Book by Yosef Bass, Tel Aviv, 1942","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"14\" data-end=\"102\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle: \u003c\/strong\u003eעל ימין ועל שמאל... (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"41\" data-end=\"65\"\u003eʻAl Yamin ṿe-ʻal Śemol\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, “On the Right and on the Left...”)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEnglish Title: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"117\" data-end=\"150\"\u003eOn the Right and on the Left...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor and Artist:\u003c\/strong\u003e יוסף בס (Yosef Bass)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/strong\u003eסכות (Sukot)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlace of Publication: \u003c\/strong\u003eTel Aviv, Eretz-Israel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1942\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: \u003c\/strong\u003eIllustrated hardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/strong\u003eHebrew\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 239 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions: \u003c\/strong\u003eApproximately 22 to 23 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubject: \u003c\/strong\u003eHebrew political cartoons, Jewish satire, World War II, Mandatory Palestine, Yishuv culture, Zionist politics, British Mandate, wartime public life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDates Covered in Cartoons:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1939 to 1941\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Original illustrated hardcover with age toning, shelf wear, rubbing to edges and spine, and light handling wear to interior pages. Binding intact. Interior cartoons remain legible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"14\" data-end=\"102\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eArtist Note: \u003c\/strong\u003eYosef Bass was born in Lwów in 1908, immigrated to Eretz-Israel in 1936, studied architecture at the Technion, and became a regular cartoonist for \u003cem data-start=\"1195\" data-end=\"1204\"\u003eHaaretz\u003c\/em\u003e for about thirty years. His wartime cartoons covered World War II, the Holocaust, the struggle against the British, and later the War of Independence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"647\" data-end=\"838\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sharp visual chronicle of Jewish public life in Mandatory Palestine during the first years of World War II. \u003cem\u003eOn the Right and on the Left...\u003c\/em\u003e gathers Yosef Bass’s satirical drawings into a portrait of a society under pressure, where politics, scarcity, war news, migration, and everyday life collide on the printed page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBass’s cartoons move between the street and the world stage. Newspapers, cafés, queues, shops, public notices, soldiers, refugees, speeches, and domestic scenes become instruments of political observation. The humor is quick and accessible, but never detached. It shows a Jewish public reading events in real time, arguing over ideology, navigating British authority, watching Europe collapse, and imagining an uncertain future in Palestine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title’s “right” and “left” suggests more than party politics. It frames the book as a satire of public argument itself: the divisions, slogans, anxieties, and contradictions of a wartime society trying to understand its place between empire, Zionism, Europe, and local life. Bass’s line is economical but dense, turning small social gestures into evidence of a larger historical mood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA scarce and serious artifact of Hebrew political cartooning, preserving the immediacy of wartime Jewish thought before the end of World War II and before the language of statehood had settled into certainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping from New York City.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KHAJISTAN™","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48251288355030,"sku":null,"price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9883\/2285\/files\/Untitled_design-13.png?v=1778734062","url":"https:\/\/khajistan.com\/products\/on-the-right-and-on-the-left-hebrew-political-cartoon-book-by-yosef-bass-tel-aviv-1942","provider":"KHAJISTAN™","version":"1.0","type":"link"}