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Herzl Rug
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The machine-woven rugs produced by the Torah u-mel’aḥah trade school in Jerusalem for export to France were typically red and rectangular (similar to Turkish prayer carpets), and they featured the…

Contributor:

Alliance Israélite Universelle School of Crafts

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1901–1910

Subjects:

Crafts, Jewish identity, Philosophy, Education, Aesthetics, Dress

Categories:

Dress & Adornment
Rug depicting a bearded man with crossed arms on top half, and two columns and hanging lamp on bottom half, surrounded by decorative border.
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.
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.
Schocken Library, Jerusalem
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In 1934, the German-Jewish entrepreneur and philanthropist Salman Schocken (1877–1959) commissioned Mendelsohn to design a villa for him and his family in Jerusalem, where they had fled from Nazi…

Contributor:

Eric Mendelsohn

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1936

Subjects:

Photography, Cities, Libraries, Education, Aesthetics, Architecture

Categories:

Photography, Architecture
Photograph of building with stone wall and cylindrical window; photograph of stone wall building exterior with triangular balconies.