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“Join The Navy Jewish brigade” Hebrew Youth, Rare Vintage Israeli Poster – Israel 1945

farkash — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 05:30:56 +0000

Rare Poster. Hebrew Youth, Join The Navy Jewish brigade vintage Poster 1945

Hebrew youth, joined the Navy. Registration in the recruitment offices Of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel. Palestine

Design: Shamir Bros

כרזה “אל הצי” התגייס לחיל הים הבריטי הבריגדה היהודית מלחמת העולם השניה 1945
עיצוב האחים שמיר

The Jewish Brigade – A Fighting Force Of The British Army
The Jewish Brigade was a military formation of the British Army. It was established in the fall of 1944 and was composed of some 5,000 Jewish volunteers living in what was then British-mandated Palestine. The Jews in Palestine had long sought to serve in the allied cause in World War II as a distinct fighting force, but these aspirations were resisted by the British military authorities until nearly the end of the war.

The British Mandate

The brigade operated under the leadership of Ernest Frank Benjamin, a Canadian-born British Jewish officer who had served with distinction in the British Army since 1919. Benjamin oversaw the training of the brigade in Egypt, and his eventual deployment to the Eighth Army in Italy .

In Italy, the group saw action against the Germans in crossing the Senior River in northeast Italy in March and April 1945. Following VE Day, on May 8, 1945, the Jewish Brigade was sent to Tarvisio on the Italian-Austrian-Yugoslav border. There they searched for Holocaust survivors, provided them with assistance, and assisted in their escape from Europe and immigration to Palestine.

So after the war, a group of former Jewish Brigade members – under the guise of British military activity – engaged in the assassination of Nazis and smuggled cweaponry to the Haganah Jewish defense forces in Palestine.

In July 1945 the brigade was sent to the Netherlands and then to Belgium. The Jewish Brigade was eventually disbanded in June 1946. Many of the veterans of the Jewish Brigade went on to serve in senior positions in the Israel Defense Forces following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

In December 1945, Benjamin was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He eventually retired from the army in September 1950, having exceeded the age limit, and was granted the honorary rank of brigadier.

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The Nahal (Fighting Pioneer Youth) Show Vintage Poster Israel 1961

farkash — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 12:50:13 +0000

The Nahal (Fighting Pioneer Youth) Show
Fifth National Conference

Israel Defense Forces, Nahal Command, Information Center announces the annual Nahal Conference

כנס הנח”ל כרזה 1961

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The Revisionist Zionists Jabotinsky Rare Vintage Israeli Poster 1948 Beitar HERUTH Betar

ASAF — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 19:33:01 +0000

Vintage rare poster printed 1948 “Gimel” The gate to the State

The party was disbanded prior to the 1951 elections when it merged into Herut.

HaTzohar (Hebrew: הצה”ר, an acronym for HaTzionim HaRevizionistim (הציונים הרוויזיוניסטים), lit. The Revisionist Zionists), officially Brit HaTzionim HaRevizionistim (ברית הציונים הרוויזיוניסטים, lit. Union of Revisionist Zionists) was a Revisionist Zionist organization and political party in Mandatory Palestine and newly independent Israel.
Jabotinsky

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Vintage Israeli May Day Poster May 1st “To establish Israel and promote the workers” 1953

farkash — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:41:13 +0000

This is an original Israeli May Day poster from May 1st 1953 published by the Histadrut HaOvdim. On the top is written “The Union”. and “To establish Israel and promote the workers”

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RARE First Israeli Independence Day Blessing Poster, 1949 Shamir Brothers

farkash — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 04:08:55 +0000

Special Blessing Poster in Honor of Israel’s First Independence Day Issued by Keren Hayesod,1949 Designed by the Renowned Shamir Brothers

This is the very first poster that was issued to celebrate Israel’s first Independence Day in 1949. The item is very rare and is a real Masterpiece, Issued by the Keren Hayesod and designed by the very known Shamir Brothers.

Gabriel Shamir (1909-1992) and Maxim Shamir (1910-1990) were Israeli graphic designers. They designed Israel’s official state emblems, medals, stamps, and currency notes.

Between 1930 and 1931 Gabriel worked for the Lintas advertising agency in Berlin and between 1931-1933 for Gumaelius in Stockholm. In 1934, they opened a graphic design studio in Riga, Latvia, but the following year they immigrated to Palestine. The brothers arrived during the Fifth Aliyah. They established the Shamir Brothers Studio on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv and began to design posters. In 1935, the Shamirs co-founded the Society of Hebrew Graphic Artists in Eretz Israel.

The Coat of Arms of Israel was designed by the Shamir Brothers
Because there were few Hebrew typefaces at the time, the Shamirs improvised hand-painted Hebrew letters, often into transliterated words from European languages and English. Whereas Franz Kraus, the Austrian graphic designer who arrived in Eretz Israel a year before the Shamirs, adhered to a uniform type style, the brothers sought typography that they felt expressed the subject matter.

The Shamir brothers, enthusiastic about the establishment of the Jewish state, undertook to formalize and actualize the visual symbols of Israeli sovereignty and independence. They designed the state’s emblems, medals, stamps, and currency notes, including the 1949 Israeli State Coat of Arms (an image of a menorah and olive branches). In addition, they advertised cigarettes and other consumer goods, as well as designed stamps for countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. Their posters, other advertisements, and logos from 1935 to the close of their studio in 1974—rendered for the lottery, marketing fairs, land settlement, support of the army, food rationing, anti-black-market drives, and other nationalistic efforts—express a hyped Communist attitude, but not extreme or dour as in the propaganda of Bolshevik Russia

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