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Fund for Recruitment and Rescue Poster
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This Hebrew-language poster urges Jews in Palestine to lend a hand to the rescue of Jewish refugees. During World War II, Jewish immigration to Palestine was banned by British Mandate authorities. A…

Contributor:

Gabriel Shamir, Maxim Shamir

Places:

Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Labor, Print, Family

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Political Culture, Advertisements
Poster featuring men, woman, and children in a small boat with Hebrew writing on the top and bottom, and one of the men standing in the back of the boat steering with a rudder through rough waves.
Refugees
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Refugees is very different in style from Josef Herman’s later work. In 1948, the artist disowned his earlier paintings (which he felt were too derivative of Chagall’s paintings) and destroyed most of…

Contributor:

Josef Herman

Places:

Date:

1936–1946

Subjects:

Painting, Labor, Class, Refugees, Family

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of fearful father, mother, and two children in the foreground outside of city buildings, and large cat with a rat in its mouth on top of the buildings in the background.