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...
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 Beth Hamidrash...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
At last the exhibits are at an end! And with it, all the confusions, banquets, speeches, packing and unpacking...
In the Grand Central Palace, at 46th street and Park avenue, New York, is now being held an exhibit of the Bezalel Art School...
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...
(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...
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...
[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...
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...
This interview has been taken on the occasion of the Bezalel Arts and Crafts Exhibition...
After twenty years of hard labor, encountering great difficulties, overcoming, what seemed insurmountable obstacles...
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...
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”...
Artist of the Diaspora—Not he who portrays to us the life of his nation in the Galuth, but he who does not regard his nation in Galuth. (From my epigrams). I drew these pictures in the past years during the brief free intervals...
He Was a Painter, Sculptor and the Founder of the Bezalel School at Jerusalem. Stricken in West on Tour Denver, March 23. — Professor Boris Schatz of Jerusalem, noted painter and sculptor of Jewish religious subjects...
To see the work of Boris Schatz assembled, is to gain a new impression of the man’s stature. He was, what is so rare in this age, a great craftsman rooted in a tradition; and it is only from a deeply rooted tradition that...
It was ten years ago. After a magnificent trip, driving from Los Angeles through the vast, powerful and resonant landscape of the West, we, my father and I, arrived in Denver. There on the hill top near the hospital where...
Boris Schatz was born to a traditional family living in the small Latvian village of Vorno. For five years, from the age of fifteen, he lived in Vilna, then Russia. There he studied, both in a yeshiva and an art school. The few sketches...
Memorial exhibition / Dudu Shenhav In 1982, the Israel Museum held an exhibition marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of Bezalel, and the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Boris Schatz...
Boris Schatz (1866–1932) is the final subject of this first cycle of our course of lectures. We have spoken about Dimitar Dobrovich, a Bulgarian from Sliven, who spent almost all his life abroad, in Greece and Rome...
