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C. In the ugliness: Judith with the head of Hilpernis.
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A divided postcard containing a black-and-white reproduction of a painting by the German artist Clemens Bewer (1820-1884) depicting the heroine of "A Jewish Book" holding Holferns' decapitated head, with a sword in her other hand. On the back of the postcard is printed the trademark of the Lebanon Press, which produced it at the end of the first decade or early 20th century. This postcard was not used and was removed from a collection of "Lebanon" postcards donated to the National Library in 1939 by the publisher's editor-in-chief, Mr. Benjamin Mintz, Warsaw.
Title: C. In the ugliness: Judith with the head of Hilpernis.
Description:
A divided postcard containing a black-and-white reproduction of a painting by the German artist Clemens Bewer (1820-1884) depicting the heroine of "A Jewish Book" holding Holferns' decapitated head, with a sword in her other hand.
On the back of the postcard is printed the trademark of the Lebanon Press, which produced it at the end of the first decade or early 20th century.
This postcard was not used and was removed from a collection of "Lebanon" postcards donated to the National Library in 1939 by the publisher's editor-in-chief, Mr.
Benjamin Mintz, Warsaw.
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