Group of c.26 rare postcards of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem

(POSTCARDS)

Germany and Palestine, for Bezalel, early 20th century

Few photographs or duplicates. Light wear

cf. IMC, Bezalel pp. 162, 168-9, 173, 187, 189, 297, 301, 304, 341 (all illustrated)

Formerly in the collection of Ya’akov Aviezer Kantorowitz (1890-1961), director of the carpet-weaving department at Bezalel. (For encapsulated biography see IMC, Bezalel p. 387). Several postcards identified or signed by Kantorowitz on verso, others signed or inscribed by Boris Schatz, Ya’akov Ben-Dov (photographer) and Yitzchak Ben-Zvi (President of Israel). All were fellow-artists at Bezalel