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Micha Bar-Am took this intimate photograph of Golda Meir soon after she became prime minister of Israel. She was the world’s fourth female prime minister and, as of 2022, the only woman to hold the…
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Micha Bar-Am
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1970
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Founded in 1906 as Rishon Lezion Yafo, the sports association changed its name to Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1910. Maccabi, the first Jewish sports association, was established in Istanbul in 1895 primarily…
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Avraham Soskin, Tsvi Nishri
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1910
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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
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1931–1935
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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…
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Helmar (Helmut) Lerski
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1940–1942