DESCRIPTION : E. M. LILIEN fans and
collectors would much enjoy this EXTREMELY RARE exceptional Judaica item . It's an over
NINETY FIVE YEARS OLD Jewish - Judaism PUBLICATION of the BULGARIAN JEWRY which was published
in SOFIA BULGARIA ( Bulgarian: София, Sofiya ) in 1919 ( Fully
dated ) . The small booklet is written on the subjest of the HEBREW
LANGUAGE . The illustrated Jewish FRONT
COVER uses the famous E.M.LILIEN design from his BIBLE BOOKS . ( E.M.LILIEN of
the BEZALEL school of art in ERETZ ISRAEL - PALESTINE , A renowned JUGENDSTIL
artist and the creator of the masterpiece Die Bucher Der
Bible ) . Original illustrated SC with LILIEN illustration . 5 x 6.5"
. 32 pp in Bulgarian ( Cyrillic letters ) Good condition . ( Pls look at scan
for accurate AS IS images ) Will be sent inside a protective packaging envelope
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AUTHENTICITY : This is an ORIGINAL vintage 1919
Jewish Bulgarian publication ( Dated ) , NOT a reproduction or a reprint ,
It holds a life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and
ORIGINALITY.
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Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874–1925) was an art nouveau illustrator and print-maker
particularly noted for his art on Jewish and Zionist themes. He is sometimes called
the "first Zionist artist." Ephraim
Moses Lilien (Maurycy Lilien) was born in Drohobycz, Galicia in 1874. In
1889-1893 Lilien learned painting and graphic techniques at the Academy of Arts
in Kraków. He studied under Polish painter Jan Matejko from 1890 to 1892. As a
member of the Zionist Movement, Lilien traveled to Ottoman Palestine several
times between 1906 and 1918. He accompanied Boris Schatz to Jerusalem to help
establish the Bezalel Art School. Lilien was one of the two artists to
accompany Boris Schatz to Eretz Israel in 1906 for the purpose of establishing Bezalel
Academy of Arts and Design, and taught the school's first class in 1906.
Although his stay in the country was short-lived, he left his indelible stamp
on the creation of an Eretz Israel style, placing biblical subjects in the
Zionist context and oriental settings, conceived in an idealized Western
design. In the first two decades of the century, Lilien's work served as a
model for the Bezalel group. Artistic career Lilien is known for
his famous photographic portrait of Theodor Herzl. He often used Herzl as a
model, considering his features a perfect representation of the "New Jew."
In 1896, he received an award for photography from the avantgarde magazine Jugend.
Lilien illustrated several books. In 1923, an exhibition of his work opened in
New York. Lilien's illustrated books include Juda (1900),
Biblically-themes poetry by Lilien's Christian friend, Börries Freiherr von
Münchausen, and Lieder des Ghetto (Songs of the Ghetto) (1903), Yiddish
poems by Morris Rosenfeld translated into German. Death
and commemoration Lilien died in Badenweiler, Germany in 1925. A
street in the Nayot neighborhood of Jerusalem is named for him.After Bulgaria
was liberated from Ottoman rule following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78,
some small-scale looting took place of Jewish property by people who regarded
them as supporters of the Ottomans. However, the Jews in Bulgaria were secured
equal rights by the Treaty of Berlin. The rabbi of Sofia, Gabriel Mercado
Almosnino, together with three other Jews, welcomed the Russian forces to the
city and took part in the Constituent National Assembly of Bulgaria in 1879. Jews
were drafted into the Bulgarian army and fought in the Serbo-Bulgarian War in
1885, the Balkan Wars, and the First World War. The Treaty of Neuilly after World
War I emphasized their equality with other Bulgarian citizens. In 1936, the
nationalist and anti-semitic organization Ratnik was established. Before World
War II, though their numbers increased, the percentage of Jews in the
population steadily declined compared to that of other ethnic groups. In 1920
the 16,000 Jews were 0.9% of all citizens of Bulgaria. By 1934 there were
48,565 Bulgarian Jews (0.8% of the population), with more than half living in
Sofia. Ladino was the dominant language in most communities, but the young
often preferred speaking Bulgarian. The Zionist movement was completely
dominant among the local population ever since Hovevei Zion. Pre-World War II
In the decades preceding World War II, the relative percentage of Jews within the Bulgarian population declined steadily, indicating a lower birth rate than the national average. In 1920, there were 16,000 Jews, .9 percent of the total population. In 1926, the made up .85 percent. The 1934 census showed 48,565 Jews, constituting 0.8% of the total population. In the mid-1930s, more than half of Bulgaria's Jews resided in Sofia. Most Jews were engaged in commerce, and the majority were self-employed. In the prewar years, the number of wage earners showed a certain upward trend. A growing identification with Jewish national ideals characterized the intellectual development of the Bulgarian Jewish community. In the interwar period the Zionist movement completely dominated all Jewish communal organization, including the highest elected body, the Jewish Consistory. The younger generation spoke Bulgarian rather than the Ladino of their fathers.
Bulgarian Jewry joined the movement for national revival as early as the days of Hovevei Zion (founded in 1882). Three Bulgarian delegates attended the First Zionist Congress in 1897 at Basle—Zvi Belkovsky, Karl Herbst, and Yehoshu'a (Joshua) Kalef. Before the congress, in 1895, Bulgarian Jews had founded the settlement Har-Tuv in Erez Israel. However, there was also considerable emigration to other countries. In 1900 several Jews settled on the land at Kefken in Turkey, on the shores of the Black Sea. Other Bulgarian Jews took up farming in Adarpazari (in the Kocaeli district near Istanbul). Among the pioneers of Zionism in Bulgaria, the most noteworthy was Joseph Marco Baruch. Between 1919 and 1948, during the British Mandate, 7,057 Bulgarian Jews emigrated to Palestine. EBAY934