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This photograph of a discus thrower refers to the Zionist idea of “muscular Judaism,” in which the “new” Jew would celebrate and cultivate the body, sports, and physical fitness. When Grschebina…
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Liselotte Grschebina
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Mandate Palestine (Palestine, Palestine)
Date:
1937
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This building, photographed by Liselotte Grschebina, is one of approximately four thousand Bauhaus-style buildings constructed in Tel Aviv, the most of any city in the world. The Nazi Party’s rise to…
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Liselotte Grschebina
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1935–1945
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The Hebrew sign in this photograph, from the 1927 municipal election in Tel Aviv in 1927, urges: “Vote gimel” (the Hebrew letter on the ballot representing a particular party or slate of candidates)…
Contributor:
Zvi Orushkes (Oron)
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1927
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Lerski’s portrait of a young Polish Jewish immigrant to Palestine is in his distinctive, expressionist style. Using mirrors and reflectors to emphasize the transformative powers of light, Lerski liked…
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Helmar (Helmut) Lerski
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1931–1935
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The photomontages that Benor-Kalter began to make in the 1930s were a departure from his earlier straightforward style and allowed him to use photography to create visual metaphors. Here, a…
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Jacob Benor-Kalter
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1929–1939
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Chief photographer of the Department of Antiquities of the Mandatory Administration, Schweig is considered the first artistic photographer of landscapes and archaeological sites in Mandate-era…
Contributor:
Shmuel Yosef Schweig
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Mandate Palestine (Jabal aţ Ţūr, West Bank)
Date:
1930–1949
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Alfons Himmelreich created Land is Life as a cover for the May 1940 issue of the magazine A Land in Construction, a publication of the Jewish National Fund. He accepted the commission as an act of…
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Alfons Himmelreich
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940
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In 1934, the German-Jewish entrepreneur and philanthropist Salman Schocken (1877–1959) commissioned Mendelsohn to design a villa for him and his family in Jerusalem, where they had fled from Nazi…
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Eric Mendelsohn
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1936
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Morpurgo was most interested in documenting everyday life. The photographs he took during his 1927 trip to Palestine portray Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities and focus on coexistence rather…
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Luciano Morpurgo
Places:
Safed, Mandate Palestine (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1927
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This series by Helmar Lerski pictured Jewish soldiers fighting with the British Army during World War II—all in all, about a hundred men and women. All the portraits are in Lerski’s distinctive…
Contributor:
Helmar (Helmut) Lerski
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940–1942