Ephraim Moshe Lilien (1874-1925) was a Viennese artist and the 'official' illustrator of the Zionist Movement. Below is a postcard he produced in 1910. According to this website Lilien visited Palestine in the 1890's and took many photographs of the people and landscape. He used these to produce work back in Europe. (You can see other works by clicking here).
The one Jody showed yesterday (above) was produced for the 5th Zionist Congress, which took place in Basel, Switzerland in 1901. The Hebrew inscription at the bottom is the prayer “May our eyes behold your return in mercy to Zion.”
And here is Lilien's beautiful, 1908 "Abraham":
The Lord said to Abram, "Go Yourself from your land, your birthland, and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless you and curse him that curses you; And all the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you." Abram went forth as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Chapter 12. Verses 1-4Just for fun click HERE to access wikipedia's page about Lilien
For several years i have been writing a blog based on my hero, Rifkind, who is a wanderer. Rifkind was an anti-war leader in the late 1960's and early seventies. In its totality, the blog is a novel with a beginning, middle and end. The story is now at midpoint. If you click on my name in the FOLLOWERS section of the jcc artists lab, you will find two links to various specific blog postings that relate some aspects of the WANDERINGS OF RIFKIND, who is also, as you may read, an incarnation of Esau of Edom.
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