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The Choice of Paris
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Shamir is known for portraits and landscapes that explore Zionist history and his own family story. Many of his paintings are set in Kfar Yehoshua in the Jezreel Valley, a village his family helped to…

Contributor:

Elie Shamir

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1988

Subjects:

Art, Israel/Israelis, Zionism, Ecology, Agriculture

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting depicting three women seated with buildings and hills behind them, above small set of images including cows and two suns on either side of an eye on left, a woman in triangle surrounded by snakes in center, and a building ruin with owl on right.
Ahavat Tsiyon Micrograph
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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…

Contributor:

Shmuel Schulman

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)

Date:

Early 20th Century

Subjects:

Art, Israel/Israelis, Zionism, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Illustration of brick building surrounded by trees with musical instruments hanging on them, and Hebrew phrases throughout.