View of a Street in Zikhron Ya‘akov
Zikhron Ya‘akov was first established near the city of Haifa as an agricultural settlement in 1882 by Jewish immigrants from Romania. A year later, it became the beneficiary of philanthropist Baron Edmond James de Rothschild (1845–1934), who hired the architect Gottlieb Schumacher (1857–1925) to draw up a Western-minded plan, very different from the neighboring Palestinian villages, for the colony. This photograph shows Zikhron Ya‘akov’s main street, lined by rows of farmers’ houses with tiled roofs and painted wooden shutters, with sheds discreetly out of view in backyards. The colony became the home of the Yishuv’s first modern winery in 1885.
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Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.
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