DESCRIPTION : Here for sale is a richly
illustrated HEBREW Jewish Judaica BOOK consists of the ILLUSTRATED annals of the ZIONIST
movement being a GENUINE TREASURE of NUMEROUS illustrated and photographed
HISTORICAL ZIONIST ITEMS and EPHEMERA : Posters , Postcards , Books ( Title
pages ) , JNF - KKL donation boxes , Photographs , Advertisements ,
Illustrations , Documents , Emblems , Signes , Logos , New year Cards ETC. The
book which was published only 30 years ago in Israel is most definitely OUT of
PRINT and greatly SOUGHT AFTER . Richly illustrated HC . 9.5 x 7" . 240 PP . Very good condition. Clean. Tightly bound ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images ) Will be sent inside a
protective rigid packaging .
PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal & All credit cards .
SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via registered airmail is $ 29 .
Book will be sent inside a protective packaging . Handling around 5-10 days after payment.
Israel officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת
יִשְׂרָאֵל, Medīnat
Yisrā'el, Arabic: دولة إِسرائيل is a parliamentary
democracy in the Middle East, on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean
Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the
West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf
of Aqaba in the Red Sea to the south, and it contains geographically diverse
features within its relatively small area. In its Basic Laws Israel defines
itself as a Jewish and Democratic State; it is the world's only Jewish-majority
state.On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the
adoption and implementation of the partition plan of Mandatory Palestine. On 14
May 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist
Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared
"the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the
State of Israel," a state independent upon the termination of the British
Mandate for Palestine, 15 May 1948.Neighboring Arab armies invaded Palestine on
the next day and fought the Israeli forces. Israel has since fought several
wars with neighboring Arab states, in the course of which it has occupied the
West Bank, Sinai Peninsula (between 1967 and 1982), Gaza Strip and the Golan
Heights. It annexed portions of these territories, including East Jerusalem,
but the border with the West Bank is disputed. Israel has signed peace treaties
with Egypt and Jordan, but efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
have so far not resulted in peace. Israel's financial center is Tel Aviv, while
Jerusalem is the country's most populous city and its capital (although not
recognized internationally as such). The population of Israel, as defined by
the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, was estimated in 2013 to be 8,002,300 people,
of whom 6,030,100 are Jewish. Arabs form the country's second-largest ethnic
group with 1,653,900 people (including Druze and Bedouins). The great majority
of Israeli Arabs are settled-Muslims, with smaller but significant numbers of
semi-settled Negev Bedouins and Christians. Other minorities include various
ethnic and ethno-religious denominations such as Druze, Maronites, Samaritans,
Black Hebrew Israelites, Armenians, Circassians and others. Israel is a
representative democracy with a parliamentary system, proportional
representation and universal suffrage. The Prime Minister serves as head of
government and the Knesset serves as Israel's unicameral legislative body.
Israel has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. It is a developed
country, an OECD member, and its economy, based on the nominal gross domestic
product, was the 43rd-largest in the world in 2012. Israel has the highest
standard of living in the Middle East and the third highest in Asia The term Bezalel school describes
a group of artists who worked in Israel in the late Ottoman and British Mandate
periods. It is named after the institution where they were employed, the
Bezalel Academy, predecessor of today’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and
has been described as "a fusion of ‘oriental' art and Jugendstil."
The Academy was led by Boris Schatz, who left his position as head of the Royal
Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, to make aliyah 1906 and set up an academy for
Jewish arts. All of the members of the school were Zionist immigrants from
Europe and the Middle East, with all the psychological and social upheaval that
this implies. The school developed a distinctive style, in which artists
portrayed both Biblical and Zionist subjects in a style influenced by the
European jugendstil ( or art nouveau) movement, by symbolism, and by
traditional Persian and Syrian artistry. Like the British Arts and Crafts
Movement, Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna, William Morris firm in England, and
Tiffany Studios in New York, the Bezalel School produced decorative art objects
in a wide range of media: silver, leather, wood, brass and fabric. While the
artists and designers were European-trained, the craftsmen who executed the
works were often members of the Yemenite community, which has a long tradition
of craftsanship in precious metals, and began to make aliyah about 1880.
Yemenite immigrants with their colorful traditional costumes were also frequent
subjects of Bezalel School artists.Leading members of the school were Boris
Schatz, E.M. Lilien,Ya'akov Stark, Meir Gur Arie, Ze'ev Raban, Jacob Eisenberg,
Jacob Steinhardt, and Hermann Struck.The artists produced not only paintings
and etchings, but objects that might be sold as Judiaca or souvenirs. In 1915,
the New York Times praised the “Exquisite examples of filigree work, copper
inlay, carving in ivory and in wood,” in a touring exhibit. In the metalwork
Moorish patterns predominated, and the damascene work, in particular, showed
both artistic feeling and skill in execution . Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is
Israel's national school of art. It is named after the Biblical figure Bezalel,
son of Uri (Hebrew: ), who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and
construction of the Tabernacle (Exodus 35:30).It is located on Mount Scopus in
Jerusalem and has 1,500 students registered in programs such as: Fine Arts,
Architecture, Ceramic Design, Industrial Design, Jewelry, Photography, Visual
Communication, Animation, Film, and Art History & Theory. Bezalel offers
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Bachelor of
Design (B.Des.) degrees, a Master of Fine Arts in conjunction with Hebrew
University, and two different Master of design (M.des) degree. The academy was
founded in 1903 by Boris Schatz, and opened in 1906, but was cut off from its
supporters in Europe by World War I, and closed due to financial difficulties
in 1929. The academy was named "Bezalel" (Hebrew: "in God's
shadow") as an illustration of God's creativity being channeled to a man
of flesh and blood, providing the source of inspiration to Bezalel ben Uri in
the construction of the holy ark.Many early Zionists, including Theodor Herzl,
felt that Israel needed to have a national style of art combining Jewish,
Middle Eastern, and European traditions. The teachers at the academy developed
a distinctive school (or style) of art, known as the Bezalel school, in which
artists portrayed both Biblical and Zionist subjects in a style influenced by
the European jugendstil (art nouveau) and by traditional Persian and Syrian
styles.Like the Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna, William Morris firm in England,
and Tiffany Studios in New York, the Bezalel School produced decorative art
objects in a wide range of media: silver, leather, wood, brass and fabric.
While the artists and designers were European-trained, the craftsmen who
executed the works were often members of the Yemenite community, which has a
long tradition of craftsanship in precious metals, and whose members had been
making aliyah in small groups at least form the beginning of the nineteenth
century, forming a distinctive Yeminite community in Jerusalem. Silver and
goldsmithing, occupations forbidden to pious Muslims, had been traditional
Jewish occupations in Yemen. Yemenite immigrants with their colorful
traditional costumes were also frequent subjects of Bezalel school
artists.Leading artists of the school include Meir Gur Aryeh, Ze'ev Raban,
Boris Schatz, Jacob Eisenberg, Jacob Steinhardt, and Hermann Struck. The School
folded because of economic difficulties. It was reopened as the New Bezalel
School for Arts and Crafts in 1935, attracting many of its teachers and
students from Germany many of them from the Bauhaus school which had been shut
down by the Nazis. In 1969 it was converted into a state-supported institution
and took its current name. It completed its relocation to the current campus in
1990. 1346/folder 142