Mizraḥ Tablet Lithograph

Abraham Monsohn

ca. 1900

Image with map of Israel in center, surrounded by smaller maps, drawings of sandstone buildings, and decorative flourishes.
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Creator Bio

Abraham Monsohn

1871–1930

Born in Jerusalem to an Ashkenazic family that had come to Ottoman Palestine, Abraham Leib Monsohn traveled to Frankfurt in 1890 to study lithography. Along with his brother Moshe Mordechai, Monsohn founded a lithographic press in the Old City of Jerusalem after returning from Germany. The A. L. Monsohn Press became among the most prominent presses in Palestine, printing military maps for Ottoman authorities as well as all manner of material for regional businesses and other institutions. Monsohn was the first printer in Palestine to use a particular type of stone color lithography.

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