SEND A POSTCARD … OR A BATIK IF YOU’RE VISITING RACHEL’S TOMB

This textile and postcard depict Rachel’s Tomb, where the matriarch Rachel is believed to be buried.  The tomb is considered one of the holiest places on Earth by Jews, Christians, and Muslims.  Jews have made pilgrimages to the tomb since ancient times, and women in particular visit it to pray for fertility and healthy childbirth.  Some Jews have also taken the tomb as a symbol of the state of Israel and Jewish people’s return to their homeland. 

Postcard: Rachel’s tomb. Copyright Sinai, Tel Aviv, Israel. Postcard made after one of Raban’s Ten Views of Israel published by M. Narkiss and Bezalel in 1931. Inscribed on back that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day (Gen. 35/20). Rachel holding lamb and Jacob with lamb on shoulders frame tomb.

Rectangular textile decorated with framed image showing road, tree (left), domed building (Rachel’s tomb] center with a figure standing next to it, and a man in streimmel at right.

Postcard, printed.  M. Narkiss and Bezalel, 1931.  Tel Aviv, Israel.  Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (1992.195).

Cotton, printed.  Pro Palestine Association, early 20th century.  Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (2004.080).

11 months ago  9 notes

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 6 Take a walk down a tree-lined avenue.  Ok, the only tree-lined avenue in town. Here’s another image form a postcard, this from the small hamlet of Yessod-Hamaala near what is today the Tel Aviv megalopolis.  The trees offered a welcome escape from the sweltering afternoon heat.  So did siesta. Yessod-Hamaala Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann Tel Aviv, ca. 1918 Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.049

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 6

Take a walk down a tree-lined avenue.  Ok, the only tree-lined avenue in town. Here’s another image form a postcard, this from the small hamlet of Yessod-Hamaala near what is today the Tel Aviv megalopolis.  The trees offered a welcome escape from the sweltering afternoon heat.  So did siesta.

Yessod-Hamaala
Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann
Tel Aviv, ca. 1918
Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.049

1 year ago  7 notes View high resolution

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 5  Who wares white to visit the fields? Oh, right.  The dude in the straw hat. When Zionist settlers arrived in the land of Israel from Europe, they brought—unsurprisingly—their customs and habits, and shaped them to fit the climate.  For example, you might see the person waring a white blazer with a straw hat—light material meant to keep him cool, and in style! Gedera Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann Tel Aviv, ca. 1918 Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.044

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 5 

Who wares white to visit the fields? Oh, right.  The dude in the straw hat.

When Zionist settlers arrived in the land of Israel from Europe, they brought—unsurprisingly—their customs and habits, and shaped them to fit the climate.  For example, you might see the person waring a white blazer with a straw hat—light material meant to keep him cool, and in style!

Gedera
Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann
Tel Aviv, ca. 1918
Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.044

1 year ago  5 notes View high resolution

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 3 Continuing with our tree-birthday fortnight, imagine yourself sauntering down this date grove in Rishon Le-Zion, one of the earliest Zionist agricultural settlements in the land of Israel.  If you’re lucky, the warm wispy wind might carry the sweet smell of ripening dates.  Yum! Rishon-le-Zion Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann Tel Aviv, ca. 1918 Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.043

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 3

Continuing with our tree-birthday fortnight, imagine yourself sauntering down this date grove in Rishon Le-Zion, one of the earliest Zionist agricultural settlements in the land of Israel.  If you’re lucky, the warm wispy wind might carry the sweet smell of ripening dates.  Yum!

Rishon-le-Zion
Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann
Tel Aviv, ca. 1918
Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.043

1 year ago  7 notes View high resolution

USE YOUR TIME OFF TO HELP, SAVE THE WORLD ONE TREE AT A TIME!-AUGUST IS VACATION MONTH! Do some good for the earth and plant a tree or recycle your plastics. This great 1934 photograph should serve as an inspiration to all you tree-huggers, and all you couch-lovers that should take inspiration from said tree-huggers. Slide Tree planting Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2009.500) Gift of Av Rivel

USE YOUR TIME OFF TO HELP, SAVE THE WORLD ONE TREE AT A TIME!-AUGUST IS VACATION MONTH!

Do some good for the earth and plant a tree or recycle your plastics. This great 1934 photograph should serve as an inspiration to all you tree-huggers, and all you couch-lovers that should take inspiration from said tree-huggers.

Slide Tree planting Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2009.500) Gift of Av Rivel

1 year ago  1 note View high resolution

SHEVUOT?  WELL, IF YOU INSIST… Shevuot is STILL coming up on Wednesday (Tomorrow), so check out another Shevuot-themed item from YUM’s collection: This picture shows a synagogue interior facing up the central aisle toward the Torah ark.  The space is decorated with trees, and a tallit is draped over a seat to the right in front.  The ark curtain, decorated with rampant lions supporting a crown above signs of the zodiac is visible left of center.

SHEVUOT?  WELL, IF YOU INSIST…

Shevuot is STILL coming up on Wednesday (Tomorrow), so check out another Shevuot-themed item from YUM’s collection:

This picture shows a synagogue interior facing up the central aisle toward the Torah ark.  The space is decorated with trees, and a tallit is draped over a seat to the right in front.  The ark curtain, decorated with rampant lions supporting a crown above signs of the zodiac is visible left of center.

1 year ago  1 note View high resolution

SEND A POSTCARD … OR A BATIK IF YOU’RE VISITING RACHEL’S TOMB

This textile and postcard depict Rachel’s Tomb, where the matriarch Rachel is believed to be buried.  The tomb is considered one of the holiest places on Earth by Jews, Christians, and Muslims.  Jews have made pilgrimages to the tomb since ancient times, and women in particular visit it to pray for fertility and healthy childbirth.  Some Jews have also taken the tomb as a symbol of the state of Israel and Jewish people’s return to their homeland. 

Postcard: Rachel’s tomb. Copyright Sinai, Tel Aviv, Israel. Postcard made after one of Raban’s Ten Views of Israel published by M. Narkiss and Bezalel in 1931. Inscribed on back that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day (Gen. 35/20). Rachel holding lamb and Jacob with lamb on shoulders frame tomb.

Rectangular textile decorated with framed image showing road, tree (left), domed building (Rachel’s tomb] center with a figure standing next to it, and a man in streimmel at right.

Postcard, printed.  M. Narkiss and Bezalel, 1931.  Tel Aviv, Israel.  Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (1992.195).

Cotton, printed.  Pro Palestine Association, early 20th century.  Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (2004.080).

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 6 Take a walk down a tree-lined avenue.  Ok, the only tree-lined avenue in town. Here’s another image form a postcard, this from the small hamlet of Yessod-Hamaala near what is today the Tel Aviv megalopolis.  The trees offered a welcome escape from the sweltering afternoon heat.  So did siesta. Yessod-Hamaala Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann Tel Aviv, ca. 1918 Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.049

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 6

Take a walk down a tree-lined avenue.  Ok, the only tree-lined avenue in town. Here’s another image form a postcard, this from the small hamlet of Yessod-Hamaala near what is today the Tel Aviv megalopolis.  The trees offered a welcome escape from the sweltering afternoon heat.  So did siesta.

Yessod-Hamaala
Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann
Tel Aviv, ca. 1918
Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.049

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 5  Who wares white to visit the fields? Oh, right.  The dude in the straw hat. When Zionist settlers arrived in the land of Israel from Europe, they brought—unsurprisingly—their customs and habits, and shaped them to fit the climate.  For example, you might see the person waring a white blazer with a straw hat—light material meant to keep him cool, and in style! Gedera Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann Tel Aviv, ca. 1918 Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.044

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 5 

Who wares white to visit the fields? Oh, right.  The dude in the straw hat.

When Zionist settlers arrived in the land of Israel from Europe, they brought—unsurprisingly—their customs and habits, and shaped them to fit the climate.  For example, you might see the person waring a white blazer with a straw hat—light material meant to keep him cool, and in style!

Gedera
Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann
Tel Aviv, ca. 1918
Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.044

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 3 Continuing with our tree-birthday fortnight, imagine yourself sauntering down this date grove in Rishon Le-Zion, one of the earliest Zionist agricultural settlements in the land of Israel.  If you’re lucky, the warm wispy wind might carry the sweet smell of ripening dates.  Yum! Rishon-le-Zion Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann Tel Aviv, ca. 1918 Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.043

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 3

Continuing with our tree-birthday fortnight, imagine yourself sauntering down this date grove in Rishon Le-Zion, one of the earliest Zionist agricultural settlements in the land of Israel.  If you’re lucky, the warm wispy wind might carry the sweet smell of ripening dates.  Yum!

Rishon-le-Zion
Publisher:  Moshe Ordmann
Tel Aviv, ca. 1918
Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, ACC# 1995.043

USE YOUR TIME OFF TO HELP, SAVE THE WORLD ONE TREE AT A TIME!-AUGUST IS VACATION MONTH! Do some good for the earth and plant a tree or recycle your plastics. This great 1934 photograph should serve as an inspiration to all you tree-huggers, and all you couch-lovers that should take inspiration from said tree-huggers. Slide Tree planting Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2009.500) Gift of Av Rivel

USE YOUR TIME OFF TO HELP, SAVE THE WORLD ONE TREE AT A TIME!-AUGUST IS VACATION MONTH!

Do some good for the earth and plant a tree or recycle your plastics. This great 1934 photograph should serve as an inspiration to all you tree-huggers, and all you couch-lovers that should take inspiration from said tree-huggers.

Slide Tree planting Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2009.500) Gift of Av Rivel

SHEVUOT?  WELL, IF YOU INSIST… Shevuot is STILL coming up on Wednesday (Tomorrow), so check out another Shevuot-themed item from YUM’s collection: This picture shows a synagogue interior facing up the central aisle toward the Torah ark.  The space is decorated with trees, and a tallit is draped over a seat to the right in front.  The ark curtain, decorated with rampant lions supporting a crown above signs of the zodiac is visible left of center.

SHEVUOT?  WELL, IF YOU INSIST…

Shevuot is STILL coming up on Wednesday (Tomorrow), so check out another Shevuot-themed item from YUM’s collection:

This picture shows a synagogue interior facing up the central aisle toward the Torah ark.  The space is decorated with trees, and a tallit is draped over a seat to the right in front.  The ark curtain, decorated with rampant lions supporting a crown above signs of the zodiac is visible left of center.

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