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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…
Struck taught at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where Yemenite Jews were popular subjects. Many new Jewish arrivals in Palestine, interested in creating a Jewish cultural revival, viewed…
Flags like this, made of paper, decorated, and attached to a stick—sometimes with an apple and a small lit candle atop it—were commonly carried by children during Simḥat Torah celebrations. The…
Albert Antebi (1873–1919), the subject of this photograph, was an educator, philanthropist, and diplomat in Ottoman Palestine. Born in Damascus to a rabbinical Jewish family, he became a prominent…
Tanakh class in the Herzliya Gymnasium with bareheaded men and women. The Herzliya Gymnasium was the first modern Hebrew and Jewish national high school in Palestine. Founded by Zionist and Hebraist…
Shmuel Schulman’s micrograph is a tribute to Ḥoveve Zion, members of a nineteenth-century Zionist movement that sent pioneers to Palestine to develop settlements funded by Baron Edmond James de…
Cover of the first issue of La vida nuestra (Our Life), a monthly Jewish culture journal published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 1917 and 1923. The typography used for the periodical’s title…
In 1906, the Ahuzat Bayit (homestead) society was created in Jaffa by members of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine) as a planned “Hebrew” community, designed in accordance with the latest…
Monument with biblical citation, modern Jerusalem. The monument, erected in a park, reads: “Thus said the Lord of Hosts: There shall yet be old men and women in the squares of Jerusalem, each with…
For many years, Amiram Erev worked as a photographer for Solel Boneh, the large Israeli construction company founded by the Histadrut, Israel’s General Federation of Labor. The company played a key…
