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Carpet Depicting Rachel’s Tomb
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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…

Contributor:

Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Palestine, Palestine)

Date:

1920–1929

Subjects:

Textiles, Crafts, Tombs, Women, Zionism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Dress & Adornment
Textile with central panel of building with domed roof, side panels of candelabra, and border of Stars of David.
The Scholar, the Laborer, and the Toiler of the Soil
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Maurice Ascalon, sometimes called the father of modern Israeli decorative arts, was commissioned to create this sculpture for the façade of the Palestine Pavilion of the 1939 New York World’s Fair…

Contributor:

Maurice Ascalon

Places:

Mandate Palestine (Palestine)

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Education, Labor, Aesthetics, Politics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Sculpture, Decorative Arts
Copper relief sculpture depicting three hooded men. The one on the left holds a scroll and has a long beard, the middle holds a hammer, and the right holds a hand plow and has a short beard.