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Technion Building Plan
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Contributor:

Alexander Baerwald

Places:

Haifa, Ottoman Palestine (Haifa, Israel)

Date:

1916

Subjects:

Cities, Scholarship, Aesthetics, Israel/Israelis, Education, Architecture

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling, Architecture
Illustration of long building façade.
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, Sculpture

Categories:

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.
The Cooperative Courtyard Plan, Merhavia Educational Farm
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In his design for the Merhavia cooperative farm (kibbutz), Alexander Baerwald arranged one-story residential buildings and a two-story main building, used for storage and equipment, around a central…

Contributor:

Alexander Baerwald

Places:

Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)

Date:

ca. 1912

Subjects:

Education, Cities, Scholarship, Aesthetics, Technology, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
Illustration of open square surrounded by buildings and fields.
Six-Language Dictionary
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Title page of the second edition of a six-language (Hebrew-Aramaic, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish) dictionary published in Jerusalem in 1908.

Contributor:

Solomon Pinḥasoff

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Language & linguistics, Education, Aesthetics, Jewish languages

Categories:

Print & book culture
Printed page of Hebrew text with decorative border.