Torah VeAvoda work book in Palestine - 1929 .

Torah VeAvoda work book in Palestine - 1929 .
A booklet published by the Jewish National Fund, and Keren Hayesod's main office, "Torah v'Avodah in Eretz Israel," on religious Zionism, text in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, French and English, accompanied by photographs of religious settlement in Israel. The cover was designed by Meir Gur-Aryeh. The photos were taken by photographers Zadok Bassan and Shmuel Yosef Shweig.

[1] 24, [1] p. Envelope binding.

Dimensions : 22 * ​​16 cm.

Condition ; Generally Good, stains.

Zadok Bassan (1882-1956) was a Jerusalem photographer, one of the first Jewish photographers in Palestine during the Yishuv and the first Jewish photographer to be born in Israel.

Shmuel Yosef Schweig (1902-1983) was a photographer who worked in the Yishuv and in the State of Israel, and documented it in his photographs.

Meir Gur Aryeh (1891 - 1951) was a Russian-born Israeli artist and painter, born Meir Gorodetsky at the end of 1891 in the city of Buberisk in White Russia, in the Russian Empire (now in the Mohilev region of Belarus). Where he studied art between 1907 and 1909. In 1913 he immigrated to Eretz Israel with his family, and in Israel he continued to study art at Bezalel. In 1913 he was involved in the establishment of a workshop called "Menorah" together with Ze'ev Raban and Shmuel Persov, where they created artifacts and reliefs on subjects drawn from Bezalel Art. Between 1918-1921 he served as a teacher at Bezalel. In 1923, Raban began a new workshop called Industrial Workplace, where he worked in graphic design and other objects.