Aryeh Judah Leib ben David (d. 1709), known as Leib Calisch, or Kalischer, was rabbi in the communities of Kremsier (now Kroměříž, Czech Republic); Łobżenica (in modern-day Poland); and Kalisz, Poland…
Zikhron Ya‘akov was first established near the city of Haifa as a Jewish agricultural settlement in 1882 by members of a Jewish nationalist association from northeastern Romania. These immigrants, the…
Mrs. Frederick Nathan returned to New York last week after a summer spent in the various capitals of Europe, where she attended numerous congresses and met the leaders of the European feminist…
Jacob Benor-Kalter was a man of many talents: photographer, graphic artist, architect, publisher, and cinema-house entrepreneur. Born in Poland, he trained as an engineer there and made aliyah in 1921. In 1926, the Pro-Jerusalem Society, a project of Sir Ronald Storrs, published an album of his Jerusalem photogravures that was widely distributed in London. In the early 1930s, he published an album of Tel Aviv photographs that included, unusually for the time, a number of photomontages, such as this one of a policeman towering over the traffic of a Tel Aviv street.
Aryeh Judah Leib ben David (d. 1709), known as Leib Calisch, or Kalischer, was rabbi in the communities of Kremsier (now Kroměříž, Czech Republic); Łobżenica (in modern-day Poland); and Kalisz, Poland…
Zikhron Ya‘akov was first established near the city of Haifa as a Jewish agricultural settlement in 1882 by members of a Jewish nationalist association from northeastern Romania. These immigrants, the…
Mrs. Frederick Nathan returned to New York last week after a summer spent in the various capitals of Europe, where she attended numerous congresses and met the leaders of the European feminist…