Five real photo postcards depicting the students of the Bezalel Academy in their workrooms for the various crafts, inside the school building, Germany c. 1910.
Four are published by P.R.A., and the other by Y. Ben-Dov. Photographs of the workshops of the various crafts: two different postcards from the carpet division and the silver division, [students of various ages, with the school’s founder, Boris Schatz, at their right; sent in the mail in 1909], the frame division, a postcard showing professor Boris Schatz in the school courtyard [a very popular photograph at the beginning of the 20th century, it appeared on the official postcard of the 9th Zionist Congress which took place in Hamburg].
Boris Schatz nicknamed the student work environment “The Hebrew Room” and described it as follows: “The Hebrew Room will tell each person the story of his past, the days of his youth, his youth and that of his people. The objects will remind people who they are. This room will tell the story that we were also a nation, because we also settled in a beautiful country. We created beauty – for ourselves and for the whole world.”
The postcards are all captioned in Hebrew and in English. Very fine condition.