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  Postcard with a German Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, Warsaw (Warszawa), early 20th century

© Gross Family Collection, Photographer: Unknown,

Zvi Hirsch Kalischer was an Orthodox German rabbi who expressed views, from a religious perspective, in favour of the Jewish re-settlement of the Land of Israel, which predate Theodor Herzl and the Zionist movement. The postcard was published by the Religious Zionist movement Mizrachi which saw Kalischer as one of their founding fathers.

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Postcard with a German Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer | Unknown
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early 20th century
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Omanut [Omonut, omanuth], publisher in Warsaw
Goldberg, Haim (graphic designer, photographer, illustrator and printer)
{"4469":"Haim Goldberg was a Warsaw Jewish-Polish graphic designer, photographer, illustrator and printer, as well as a Yiddish and Hebrew writer and poet. He worked for he was hired by the publishing house \"Yehudiya\", owned by the Yiddish daily Haynt, as a graphic designer in order to produce greeting cards and postcards. Goldberg created colored cards, using a composite method, creating his own style in this niche of Jewish art. First he photographed in his studio staged scenes portrayed by amateur actors, along with appropriate clothing and setting, and then he used painting and graphics techniques to add the pictures illustrated elements and short Yiddish rhymed greetings he composed. Thus he created series of popular postcards in various themes \u2013 Shana Tova ('Happy New Year') greeting cards, postcards depicting Jewish occupations, etc. In the 1920s, Goldberg opened in Warsaw a printing house and artistic zincography studio named \"Grafikon\". https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haim_Goldberg_(Haggai)"}
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Height: 8.7 cm, Width: 14 cm
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William Gross |
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