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Abel Pann devoted much of his artistic career to painting and drawing scenes from the Hebrew Bible. Like other Jewish artists who worked in this genre, such as Ephraim Moses Lilien and Ze’ev Raban, he…
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Abel Pann
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1945
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On the beginning of the new rebbetzin’s life in Zhuzhikovka, the locals say:
She, the rebbetzin, was brought here a few years ago from some distant city in Poland.
There, in that city, the Polish one…
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Dvora Baron
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1927
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Ben-Dov was the founder of the photography department in the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. This photograph of an art student posing as the biblical Ruth is faithful to the Bezalel mission to…
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Yaacov Ben-Dov
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919
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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 carpet was one of the many decorative objects with biblical themes produced at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. This design features the legendary burial site of the biblical matriarch…
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Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Palestine, Palestine)
Date:
1920–1929
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Dina has reached the age of seventeen, but her mind and manners are far beyond those years. She is comely and demure and full of charm. Two modest eyes and two wild braids. Why wild? Because they have…
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Shoshana Shababo
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940
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Hanging her corals on the night she leaves
silent, possessing nothing.
A moon dives, a splash extinguished
in a wall of water.
Alone, just herself, the path
blown clean with white godhead
twists…
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Yocheved Bat-Miriam
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1941
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I was honored to receive your request to express my opinion on the current question of electing women to the Jewish representative assembly…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919
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Like the golden bangles on the arms of a Bedouin woman, the hills of Gilboa bind their bracelets about the valley of Jezreel in the golden hours of late Adar evenings. Then do the women go down to…
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Abraham Shlonsky
Places:
Kibbutz Ein Harod, Mandate Palestine (‘En H̱arod - Meuhad, Israel)
Date:
1921
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Behold her blood flows in my blood,
Behold her voice within me sings—
Raḥel the herder of Laban’s sheep,
Raḥel—mother’s mother.
And so the house is too constricting for me
And the city—alien,
For…
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Rakhel (Rachel Bluwstein)
Places:
Kevutsat Degania, Mandate Palestine (Deganya Alef, Israel)
Date:
1927