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The Scholar, the Laborer, and the Toiler of the Soil
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Maurice Ascalon, sometimes called the father of modern Israeli decorative arts, was commissioned to create this sculpture for the façade of the Palestine Pavilion of the 1939 New York World’s Fair…

Contributor:

Maurice Ascalon

Places:

Mandate Palestine (Palestine)

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Education, Labor, Aesthetics, Politics, Sculpture

Categories:

Sculpture, Decorative arts
Copper relief sculpture depicting three hooded men. The one on the left holds a scroll and has a long beard, the middle holds a hammer, and the right holds a hand plow and has a short beard.
My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland
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As for me, my youth began very early. At the age of ten, I was already a grownup, a Polner mentsh, as the Jews said. Besides my diligent studies, back then I was a “God-seeker.” I felt confined, and…

Contributor:

Puah Rakovsky

Places:

Mandate Palestine (Palestine)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Feminism, Jewish identity, Women, Cities, Education, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Memoirs & diaries