Illustrated Scroll – In Honor of a Jewish Couple's Wedding – Berlin, 1935

Illustrated Scroll – In Honor of a Jewish Couple's Wedding – Berlin, 1935
A long scroll, designed as a roll of photographic film, with 18 illustrated scenes (watercolor, charcoal and pencil), in honor of the wedding of Felix Daniel Pinczower and Hilde Kamerling. [Berlin], February 3, 1935. German and some Hebrew.
On the scroll, nearly seven meters long, appear 18 illustrated scenes from the lives of the couple (mainly the groom). The large and colorful illustrations depict the couple on their wedding day (climbing a ladder), Pinczower's journey to Eretz Israel to cover the second Maccabiah (held in the same year), a family at the Sabbath table, front of the Kamerling furniture store in Berlin, Pinczower running wearing an undershirt with a Star of David, and more.
The scroll opens with "Fortsetzung folgts G.w. Bein 25 hoch das Brautpaar" and ends with the humorous inscription "Der Lauf ins glück, ein Tonfilm der Pinczower Film-comp / Hauptrollen: Hilde Kamerling, Felix Pinczower u.a.m. / Bilder, Texte, Regie: Jac Tramer" ["Race for luck" – film with sound, Pinczower Film-comp / Starring: Hilde Kamerling and Felix Pinczower / picture, text, director: Jac Tramer]. Date appears at the end of the scroll.
Felix Daniel Pinczower (1901-1993), born in Berlin, amateur sportsman, member of "Hakoach" Berlin; worked as a sports journalist and published in the newspaper Jüdisches familienblatt. As part of his journalistic work he was sent to cover the second Maccabiah, held in Tel-Aviv in 1935. He also covered the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Pinczower immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939, together with his wife (after being arrested on Kristallnacht for five weeks). In Eretz Israel he made his living selling books. He authored a book titled "The Jewish Runner" (Der jüdische Läufer) published in Berlin in 1937, which was translated to Hebrew and published in Jerusalem in 1994.
Hilde Pinczower, neé Kamerling (1908-2010), born in Berlin, was one of the first women who studied dentistry in the 1930s, and finished her studies in the Friedrich Wilhelm University (Humboldt University) in Berlin. After their immigration to Eretz Israel, she worked as a dentist.
The information about the couple is based on the website of the Association of Israelis of Central European Origin.
Length: 680 cm, width: 50 cm. Overall good condition. Dry paper. Tears at margins. Rough tears at the end of the scroll (one of the tears is of 45 cm.). Some of the tears are restored with adhesive tape.