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Open-air Sanctuary in the Samaria Hills
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This drawing is a modern reconstruction of the ground plan of an open-air sanctuary. Situated in northern Israel, it consisted of an enclosure about 65 feet (20 m) in diameter surrounded by stones…

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Samaria, Land of Israel (Samaria, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age I, Early 12th Century BCE

Subjects:

Cities, Sacrifice, Animals, Scholarship, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
Plan drawing of open-air building with round enclosure surrounded by stones.
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.
Der pinkes (cover)
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Der pinkes (The Book of Records, or The Annals) appropriated the term for the old-fashioned record book of a Jewish community or institution to name a very new phenomenon: the first “annual for the…

Contributor:

Shmuel Niger

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Scholarship, Jewish identity, Yiddish, Cities, Education

Categories:

Print & book culture, Science & philosophy
Page with Yiddish text and simple decorated border.
Higid Mordekhai (Mordechai Narrated)
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This is the statement of the author, Mordechai Ha-kohen, son of My Lord, My Father Rabbi Yehudah, son of Marco (Mordechai), son of Abraham Israel Hakohen, born in Tripoli, Africa, on the twenty-fifth…

Contributor:

Mordechai ha-Kohen

Places:

Ottoman Empire (Libya, Libya)

Date:

1907

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Temple, Scholarship, Education, Cities

Categories:

Science & philosophy
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.
Arad Sanctuary
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The Arad sanctuary today exists in ruins (image on left), and scholars have attempted its reconstruction (right). The sanctuary included a building with a broad hall approximately 35 feet (10.5 m)…

Places:

Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age IIA–IIB, 9th–8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Scholarship, Archaeology, Temple, Cities, Sacrifice, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
Photograph of ruins of stone buildings.