1960 Soferman Luria Hebrew Map, Used (1 results)

Very good. Some light toning in lower right margin. Size 13 x 18.5 Inches. This is a c. 1960 map of Southeast Asia produced by the Israeli cartographic firm Carta for Ben-Zion Luria's A?las Yedi'ot Aharonot . It highlights the Cold War ideological struggles in the region, particularly the Laotian Civil War (1959 - 1975). A Closer Look The map covers from southern China and northern Burma southwards to northern Malaysia and Borneo, focusing on Mainland Southeast Asia. Communist countries (China and North Vietnam) are shaded red, while U.S.-aligned countries are shaded blue, including Laos, Cambodia, South Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, the Republic of China (on Taiwan), and the eastern portion of Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand, along with the U.S., were members of the Southeast Asian Treat Organization (SEATO ; ???? - ???? ????? ????? ???? ????), modelled on the North Atlantic Treat Organization (NATO). The SEATO headquarters in Bangkok is noted with a text box at left, while an air supply route from Manila to Mainland Southeast Asia is traced (a similar air route for Communist forces is noted between Hanoi and the Pathet Lao-controlled parts of Laos). A textbox in the South China Sea explains the end of French colonialism in Indochina and the division of Vietnam according to the 1954 Geneva Accords. Additional text boxes and explanatory notes point out the wartime capital of the Pathet Lao at Viengxay, a helicopter base in northern Thailand (Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base), and the fact that Okinawa was under U.S. military administration. Cities, major roads, and railways are also recorded throughout. Laotian Civil War and the Vietnam War This map was created in the early stages of the Laotian Civil War (1959 - 1975), fought between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government. The Laotian Civil War became entangled with the Vietnam War (1955 - 1975) and became a proxy war between Cold War powers, meaning that not only were the opposing Laotian forces fighting each other but that North Vietnamese, American, Thai, and South Vietnamese forces were also involved, with the Pathet Lao receiving supplies from Communist China and the Soviet Union. The Ho Chi Minh Trail, a key logistical artery for the North Vietnamese to infiltrate men and supplies into South Vietnam, traversed most of the length of Laos before entering South Vietnam. Communist Pathet Lao forces emerged victorious at the end of the war in 1975, with up to 300,000 people fleeing Laos into Thailand after their takeover. Israel's role in all this was minimal; although many Zionists were socialists of one stripe or another and the Soviet Union supported Israel in its early years, the State of Israel eventually aligned with the anti-Communist bloc in the Cold War, while the Soviet Union supported Arab states. However, the close attention to detail in this map reflects a desire to understand distant battlegrounds in the emerging Cold War and Israel's place in the global confrontation. Publication History and Census This map was prepared by Amnon Soferman (????? ??????) and Emmanuel Hausman (?????? ??????) of Carta, the Jerusalem-based cartographic firm that the two men founded. It was printed by Emil Pikowsky (???????? ????), son of Michael Pikowski, the father-son team who were pioneers of Israel's printing industry, with pattern printing by Offset-Printing Siyon Ltd. (????-????? ???? ??"?). The map appeared in the At?las Yedi'ot Aharonot (???? ?????? ???????), edited by Ben-Zion Luria, arranged by the Yedi'ot Aharonot ( Latest News ), a newspaper in Tel Aviv, and published by the Kiryat Sefer Publishing House (????? ???). An atlas with this title was published for many years by the newspaper between the 1930s and 1990s. Although the map is not dated, its style and content would suggest that it was published in an edition of the atlas from the early 1960s. The map is not individually cataloged with any institution.