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Textile Embroidered Tefillin Bag Moroccan or Turkish, Early 20th Century Judaica
Located in New York, NY
Tefillin Bag
Textile bag stunningly embroidered with flower scrolling overlooking an ocean in gold colored thread on both sides. Center of embroidery features a soaring phoenix with ...
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Early 20th Century Decorative Art
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Textile
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Bar-Kokhba' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is written in bolt blue letters over a white background, alluding to the colors of the national flag of the newly established state. The sign names the street 'Bar Kokhba' in Israel in both Hebrew and English letters. (In transliteration), as well as in Arabic.
Simon ben...
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Vintage 1940s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Yitshak Katzenelson' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
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Vintage 1940s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Iris Alley' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
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Vintage 1950s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Hanita' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is written in bolt white letters over a dark blue background, alluding to the colors of the national flag of the newly established state.
The sign names the street 'Hanita' in Israel, in both Hebrew and English letters (in transliteration), as well as in Arabic.
The meaning of the name 'Hanita' is double: it is both an inflection of the name Hannah and also meansm 'her spear'. A spear is an ancient weapon...
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Vintage 1950s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Avigayil' (Abigail) Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
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Vintage 1950s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Moriya' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
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Vintage 1950s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Oded' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Eliyahu Hannavi' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Dafna' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is written in bolt white letters over a dark blue background, alluding to the colors of the national flag of the newly established state.
The sign names the street 'Dafna' in Tel Aviv, in both Hebrew and English letters (in transliteration).
The origin of the name Dafna (Daphne) is from Greek mythology, Daphne, daughter of the god of the river, is a nymph who turned into a tree and thus the laurel tree...
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Vintage 1950s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Eihud' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enameled and Iron Israeli 'Daniyel' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli ''Keren Alley' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is written in bolt white letters over a dark blue background, alluding to the colors of the national flag of the newly established state.
The sign names the alley 'Keren' in Zikhron Ya'akov, in both Hebrew and English letters (in transliteration). The name Keren has several meanings. One of them is a beam of light, a band of light that comes out of a light source. Another interpretation is a hard bone on the head of an animal (unicorn, goat, rhinoceros). Keren is also the name of Job's third daughter that appears in the Bible, an ancient wind...
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Vintage 1950s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Rah'el' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is written in bolt white letters over a dark blue background, alluding to the colors of the national flag of the newly established state.
The sign names the street 'Ra'hel' (Rachel) in Jerusalem in both Hebrew and English letters (in transliteration).
The origin of the name Rachel comes from the book of Genesis in the Bible, where it appears as the name of a biblical figure - a shepherdess, the wife of Jacob our father, the daughter of Laban the Armenian, the sister of Leah his mother and one of the four mothers of the people of Israel. Rachel was also the mother of Joseph the righteous and Benjamin.
However, this sign refers to the poet Rahel Bluwstein, more famously known as Rachel the Poetess, who is considered the “founding mother...
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Vintage 1950s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'El'azar' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Yoav' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
Category
Vintage 1940s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Sinai' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Daliya' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
Category
Vintage 1940s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'S'madar' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
Category
Vintage 1940s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Early 20th Century Israeli Iron and Enamel Street Sign
Located in New York, NY
Three languages iron and enamel street sign, circa 1920.
The sign was made to Honor Bezalel who was the chief artisan of the Tabernacle and was in charge of building the Ark of the Covenant...
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Early 20th Century Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Early 20th Century Israeli Iron and Enamel Street Sign
Located in New York, NY
Three languages iron and enamel street sign, circa 1920.
The sign was made for 58 street in the city of Haifa. The three languages indicate the sig...
Category
Vintage 1920s Decorative Art
Materials
Iron, Enamel
Jew at the Tomb of Zechariah-Bronze Plaque by Moshe Murro for Bezalel, Jerusalem
Located in New York, NY
Bronze plaque with a relife of a Jew with the Tomb of Zechariah in the background.
Made in Bezalel school, Jerusalem by Moshe Murro, circa 1915.
Signed: "Bezalel Jerusalem" in Hebr...
Category
Early 20th Century Israeli Decorative Art
Materials
Bronze
Jews at Rachel's Tomb-Early 20th Century Bronze Plaque by Moshe Murro, Jerusalem
Located in New York, NY
Bronze plaque with a relife of the figures of three elderly Jews and young Jew with Rachel's Tomb in the background.
Made in Bezalel school, Jerusalem by Moshe Murro, circa 1915.
Si...
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Early 20th Century Israeli Decorative Art
Materials
Bronze
Early 20th Century Brass Plaque by Bezalel School Jerusalem
Located in New York, NY
Bezalel brass plaque depicting a Jewish elder next to the Western Wall, made in Jerusalem, circa 1920, bearing a small metal label engraved "Bezalel Jeru...
Category
Early 20th Century Israeli Decorative Art
Materials
Brass
Early 20th Century Shabbat Table Cover from Jerusalem
Located in New York, NY
Folk Art Shabbat table cover, Jerusalem, circa 1900.
Embroidered at the four corners with the holy places for Jews in Israel, and with the wailing wall at the center.
The Hebrew rectangular text is a traditional song sung by Jews every Friday night upon returning home from synagogue prayer. It signals the arrival of the Jewish Sabbath, welcoming the angels who accompany a person home on the eve of the Sabbath.
The words to the song translate as follows:
Peace be with you, ministering angels, messengers of the Most High,
Messengers of the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed be He.
Come in peace, messengers of peace, messengers of the Most High,
Messengers of the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed be He.
Bless me with peace, messengers of peace, messengers of the Most High,
Messengers of the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed be He.
Go in peace, messengers of peace, messengers of the Most High,
Messengers of the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed be He.
The Hebrew text around the Wailing Wall scene...
Category
Early 20th Century Israeli Decorative Art
Materials
Textile
Early 20th Century Armenian Pottery Plate from Jerusalem
Located in New York, NY
Extremely rare Armenian pottery plate depicting the mosaic floor at the ancient synagogue of Beit Alpha in Israel, circa 1920.
Jerusalem's ancient Arm...
Category
Vintage 1920s Israeli Decorative Art
Materials
Pottery
Samson the Protagonist, Silver Plate Plaque by Bezalel School Jerusalem
Located in New York, NY
Bezalel silver plate plaque depicting Samson slays a thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey, made in Jerusalem, circa 1920, marked "Bezalel Jerusalem...
Category
Early 20th Century Israeli Decorative Art
Materials
Silver Plate
Early 20th Century Silver Plate Plaque by Bezalel School Jerusalem
Located in New York, NY
Bezalel silver plate plaque depicting Moses at Mount Sinai, made in Jerusalem, circa 1925, marked "Bezalel Jerushalem" in Hebrew and "Made in Palestine,...
Category
Early 20th Century Israeli Decorative Art
Materials
Silver Plate
Early 20th Century Hungarian Enamel Kosher Butcher Shop Sign
Located in New York, NY
Heavy and massive enamel Kosher butcher shop sign, Budapest, Hungary, circa 1900.
White and black enamel over iron, inscribed in Hebrew and in Hungar...
Category
Early 20th Century Hungarian Architectural Elements
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Early 20th Century Hungarian Enamel Kosher Butcher Shop Sign
Located in New York, NY
Heavy and massive enamel Kosher butcher shop sign, Budapest, Hungary, circa 1920.
White, blue, and red enamel over iron, inscribed in the middle :"Or...
Category
Early 20th Century Hungarian Art Deco Architectural Elements
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Tisha B’Av, Bronze Plaque by Boris Schatz, Bezalel School Jerusalem
Located in New York, NY
Boris Schatz Bronze Plaque In high relief, expertly cast bronze. Depicting bearded men on the floor of the Synagogue reading kinnot (sad poems / elegies),...
Category
Early 20th Century Israeli Decorative Art
Materials
Bronze
Chad Gadya, Terracotta Passover Scene by Ze'ev Raban, Bezalel School Jerusalem
Located in New York, NY
Ze’ev Raban plaster -plaque made in Bezalel School, Jerusalem
This image is of the “father who bought the goat for two zuzim”. Designed by Ze’ev Raban, made circa 1915-1920. Signed w...
Category
Early 20th Century Israeli Religious Items
Materials
Terracotta
