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Israel Paldi was a member of the Land of Israel movement, a group of post-impressionist artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School. Some, like Paldi, became well-known…
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Israel Paldi
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En Kerem, Mandate Palestine (En Kerem, Israel)
Date:
1928
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Raban was known as a designer, painter, and book illustrator but also designed at least two posters, including this one for the Society for the Promotion of Travel in the Holy Land. The poster’s…
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Ze’ev Raban
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Mandate Palestine (Palestine, Palestine)
Date:
1929
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From here to the shrine of Nabi Moussa was some twenty-five miles. Allah, wanting to placate his favorite, and mitigate the punishment which He had imposed on him in His anger, had…
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Yitsḥak Shami
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Hebron, Mandate Palestine (Hebron, West Bank)
Date:
1928
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When you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it, you shall take some of every first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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Once there was a rabbi who had no children. Finally, he had an only son. He raised him and married him off. The son used to sit in an attic room and study in the manner of rich men and he always…
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Nachman of Bratslav
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Bratslav, Russian Empire (Bratslav, Ukraine)
Date:
1815
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Observe the month of Abib and offer a passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, for it was in the month of Abib, at night, that the Lord your God freed you from Egypt. You shall slaughter the…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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Chief photographer of the Department of Antiquities of the Mandatory Administration, Schweig is considered the first artistic photographer of landscapes and archaeological sites in Mandate-era…
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Shmuel Yosef Schweig
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Mandate Palestine (Jabal aţ Ţūr, West Bank)
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1930–1949