Yitzhak Menashe (6 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 128 pages. 5.50x0.29x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Good Cloth. Condition: Good. No edtion state, Appears to be First. Bilu (Hebrew: ביל"ו‎); also Palestine Pioneers, was a movement whose goal was the agricultural settlement of the Land of Israel. Its members were known as Bilu'im. "Bilu" is an acronym based on a verse from the Book of Isaiah (2:5) "בית יעקב לכו ונלכה‎" Beit Ya'akov Lekhu Venelkha ("House of Jacob, let us go [up]"). The wave of pogroms of 1881-1884 and anti-Semitic May Laws of 1882 introduced by Tsar Alexander III of Russia prompted mass emigration of Jews from the Russian Empire. On 6 July 1882, the first group of Bilu pioneers arrived in Ottoman Palestine. The group consisted of fourteen university students from Kharkiv led by Israel Belkind, later a prominent writer and historian. After a short stay at the Jewish farming school in Mikveh Israel, they joined Hovevei Zion ("Lovers of Zion") members in establishing Rishon LeZion ("First to Zion"), an agricultural cooperative on land purchased from the Arab village of Ayun Kara. Plagued by water shortages, illness and financial debt, the group abandoned the site within a few months. They then sought help from Baron Edmond James de Rothschild and Maurice de Hirsch, who provided funding that led to the establishment of the local wine industry. In 1886, construction began on a winery in Rishon Lezion that became a successful wine-exporting enterprise. In the winter of 1884, another group of Bilu pioneers founded Gedera. Gedera was established on a tract of land purchased from the Arab village of Qatra by Yehiel Michel Pines of the Hovevei Zion through the auspices of the French consul in Jaffa. …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 128 pages. 5.74x0.48x8.74 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Limited First edition. Baruch Agadati, oman ha-rikud ha-ivri (artist of Hebrew dance): 1/100. Folio. Original blue cloth gilt-lettered boards with Cubist-inspired front paste-down. Illustrated title page. Calligraphic Hebrew introductory text in black and red. The major work on the legendary Russian-born Israeli dancer, illustrated with a costumed Agadati in modern dance postures, a troupe of dancers with stage scenery and including Agadati's choreographic notation of the Horah. 32 tipped-in prints of elaborately overpainted photographs, drawings, paintings and illustrated posters advertising dance performances, one of which is designed in striking constructivist style (artwork presumably by Agadati). Photographs by Avraham Soskin, the quintessential "Tel Aviv photographer." No. 50 of a total of 100 published. Moderate age-wear to binding, spine and top sunned. Moderate and sporadic foxing in margins. Text in Hebrew. Binding rubbed with fraying at top and bottom of spine both hinges started, interior in good condition overall. Plates in very good condition. Agadati, the renowned dancer and choreographer known for interpreting Jewish folk dances in a uniquely expressionist style, is considered to be the central figure in the development of Israeli dance. He was also a painter, early filmmaker and enthusiastic organizer of Purim festivals. Born in Russia in 1895, Agadati emigrated to Palestine in the early 1900s where he studied at the Bezalel Academy. During WWI he studied classical ballet and danced with The Odessa Opera Ballet Theater. After returning to Palestine he often gave solo dance recitals and introduced the Hora, originally a folk dance from the Balkans, which later became the signature dance of the Jewish people.…