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Billboards for Municipal Elections, Tel Aviv
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The Hebrew sign in this photograph, from the 1927 municipal election in Tel Aviv in 1927, urges: “Vote gimel” (the Hebrew letter on the ballot representing a particular party or slate of candidates)…

Contributor:

Zvi Orushkes (Oron)

Places:

Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Date:

1927

Subjects:

Photography, Politics, Cities, Jewish identity, Adolescence

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography, Political Culture
Photograph of men huddled together on a car holding billboards, surrounded by young men on bicycles following them down the street.
The Writing on the Wall: Almstadtstrasse (Formerly Grenadierstrasse 7): Slide Projection of Former Hebrew Bookstore, Berlin (1930)
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In The Writing on the Wall, Attie brought the ghosts of pre-World War II Jewish life in Berlin temporarily to life by projecting black-and-white slides of Jewish schools, bookstores, kosher butchers…

Contributor:

Shimon Attie

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1993

Subjects:

Photography, Conceptualism, Jewish identity, Holocaust, Memory

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography, History, Historical Writing
Photograph of blank city wall with projection of storefront over it and car in foreground.