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Painting of the Prophet Isaiah by Prof. Boris Schatz to Join the Gutenberg Bible in the Congressional Library at Washington as a Gill from the Palestinian Artist. A PAINTING of the prophet Isaiah by Prof. Boris Schatz of Palestine, who...

The Bezalel Institute - Professor Boris Schatz

It is a long time now since we lived in the golden age when we were not blessed with all sorts of “ists,” who attack one another and treat one another as the greatest enemies. We all had only one place of meeting then, the...

Bineth Gallery of Fine Arts

In 1903 Professor Boris Schatz made a relief portrait of Dr. Herzl. On the left side of this portrait he engraved a message: “I believe the Maccabees will rise again, a generation of Jews who want to be redeemed and shall be redeemed”...

An Inheritance of Jewish Art - The Schatz Medallion Collection

The history of contemporary art in Israel must begin with Boris Schatz, the Lithuanian-born sculptor who had a vision of a national Jewish art that would express “the soul of our people, felt in our prophets, in our festivals, in our customs...

Boris Schatz And His Jewish Contemporaries - Harold Debrest

The mother of “Ben Hur” in the famous novel of that name asserts truthfully that in the sense which limits art to sculpture, “Israel has had no artists.” Continuing the argument, she heroically explains this by quoting from the Law of Moses...

Bezalel in New York - The Maccabean, 01/01/1915

What an inspiring spectacle it is to behold the largest and richest Jewish community in the world, imbued with the dollar-hunting American spirit, unconscious for the most part of its distinctive character, suddenly roused to...

Autobiographical Excerpt - Edited by "B'ne Bezalel", 01/01/1925

Although I got to Paris with very limited means, and weighed with the responsibility for my wife and my old father who had no one else to depend upon, — I persisted in my original programme and entered...

After The Bezalel Exhibition In America - By Prof. Boris Schatz, 01/10/1925

At last the exhibits are at an end! And with it, all the confusions, banquets, speeches, packing and unpacking...

An Exhibit of Arts and Crafts Made in Jerusalem - By B. Botwinik, 01/10/1925

In the Grand Central Palace, at 46th street and Park avenue, New York, is now being held an exhibit of the Bezalel Art School...

An Heroic Figure - By Nathan D. Kaplan, 01/10/1925

The modern Zionist movement, from its very inception with the first Chovevi Zion, even before the advent of Dr. Theodor Herzl and the first Zionist Congress, has produced many heroic figures; pioneers who staked their all...

From The “American and Women’s Magazine”, 01/10/1925

(This essay was written by a member of the editorial staff; for some reason known to himself only he desired to remain incognito.) It has become characteristic of our people, when we begin to speak of Schatz we are immediately...

To The Bezalel Exhibit of New York - By Saul Raskin, 01/10/1925

Between two mountains standing opposite each other lies scattered the old city of Jerusalem. On the summit of one of the mountains the first Hebrew University is being built; on the height of the other mountain has...

The Pioneers of The Spirit - By Dr. I. Sapir, 01/10/1925

[Doctor I. Sapir, the author of the following Essay, is a practicing physician; he is a well known essayist and publicist. For many years he was the head of The National Fund. He is now a resident of Palestine.] Palestine gave us...

Newspaper Comments - 20th Anniversary Exhibit, 01/10/1925

The Bezalel School in Jerusalem is an important factor for the economic development of Palestine, by enabling hundreds of young Jewish artists to gain a livelihood in wood carving, rug making, weaving, painting, sculpture, brass...

A Conversation With James N. Rosenberg at The New York Bezalel Exhibition - By Martha Neumarit, 01/10/1925

This interview has been taken on the occasion of the Bezalel Arts and Crafts Exhibition...

An Explanation In Place of A Preface - By “Friends of Bezalel”, 22/10/1925

After twenty years of hard labor, encountering great difficulties, overcoming, what seemed insurmountable obstacles...

Union Museum Acquies Schatz Gallery, 01/12/1926

The noted "Schatz Gallery" of Jerusalem, has been acquired by the Library of the Hebrew Union College. This collection includes the work of Professor Boris Schatz in a variety of media such as bronze, stone, oil paintings...

Let Your Eyes Behold Your Masters - By M. Narkis, 01/06/1928

To find Prof. Schatz at his work in the capacity of Sculptor is only possible at a late hour. Then he sits in his lighted Studio after the day’s hard work, forgets all his cares and works. All his day he devotes to “Bezalel”...