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25 ANNIVERSARY for Keren Hayesod VINTAGE POSTER 1945

farkash — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:19:07 +0000

Original Sketch for vintage poster water color on paper of 25 ANNIVERSARY for Keren Hayesod

Condition is good, some stains of moisture on the paper

Keren Hayesod was established at the World Zionist Congress in London on July 7–24, 1920 to provide the Zionist movement with resources needed to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. It came in response to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which stated that “his Majesty’s government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” – turning the ages-old dream of the return to Zion into a politically feasible goal.

Keren Hayesod established fundraising organizations around the world. Early leaders included Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein and Ze’ev Jabotinsky.

During the 1920s, Keren Hayesod began to lay the groundwork for a Jewish National Home and helped raise funds to establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bank Hapoalim and various physical projects. In 1926, Keren Hayesod relocated its headquarters from London to Jerusalem. With the establishment of the Jewish Agency in 1929, Keren Hayesod became its fundraising arm while continuing its own wide-ranging activities.

The effects of the worldwide economic depression of 1929 hit Keren Hayesod hard, but after Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, Keren Hayesod helped to develop the Haifa Bay suburbs to provide housing for German Jews fleeing the Nazis. Towards this end, the Rassco construction company was established in 1934. In 1936, Keren Hayesod supported the establishment of what would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to provide employment for refugee musicians.

With the help of donations from all over the Jewish world, Keren Hayesod established over 900 urban and rural settlements in Israel, provided housing and jobs for new immigrants. During and after World War II, it launched emergency campaigns, sometimes in partnership with other organizations. Funds were used to help the Allied war effort and when the concentration camps were liberated to smuggle survivors into Palestine in defiance of British immigration restrictions.

Many Keren Hayesod leaders were murdered in the Holocaust. In March 1948, a car bomb was detonated in the courtyard of the building, killing twelve people, including the director of Keren Hayesod, Leib Yaffe.[1]

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Keren HaYsod Vintage Zionist Poster For Collect Money To Illegal Immigrant Ship “THE NEVERTHELESS” 1946

farkash — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 09:34:07 +0000

Pre Israel “Keren HaYesod” Vintage Zionist Poster For Collect Money To Illegal Immigrant Ship “THE NEVERTHELESS” 1946

Nevertheless, there was an illegal immigrant ship organized by the Mossad for Aliyah B. It was called “Nevertheless” in response to the failure to bring down Exodus immigrants in the country, and deport them to Hamburg.

כרזה קרן היסוד מגבית לאיסוף כספים לאוניית המעפילים “אף-על-פי-כן” 1946

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“Welcome to Israel” Keren HaYesod – United Israel Campaign, Vintage Poster 1952

farkash — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:49:25 +0000

“Welcome to Israel = Keren HaYesod – United Israel Campaign”, promotional poster for “Keren HaYesod”. Levine-Epstein Press, Tel Aviv, [1952]. Design: Jan Lewitt and George Him. Color illustration depicting a desert landscape with two tractors plowing the soil from north to south, with furrows between them in the shape of a Star of David. The artists Jan Lewitt (1907-1991) and George Him (1900-1981), both born in Poland, founded a joint studio for graphic design in Warsaw in 1933. In 1937 they immigrated to London; there they were mainly involved in advertising (they designed, among others, posters and announcements for the British Ministry of Information) as well as in writing and illustrating children’s books. Both were involved in projects related to Israel. Jan Lewitt designed the Hebrew typeface “Haim”. George Him designed, among other projects, the “Masada Exhibition” and served as a design consultant to “El-Al” company. In 1954 the partnership was dissolved. 70×50 cm. Good condition.

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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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