Obj. ID: 39508  Kuntras Zemirot ha-Aretz, Jerusalem, 1938

This text was prepared by William Gross:

A booklet of songs.
The volume is decorated with three woodcut stamps represent three of the Holy Cities in Israel: Migdal David (Jerusalem), the tomb of Rabbi Meir Ba'al ha-Nes (Tiberias), and the city of Safed.
The booklet was issued from the press of Raphael Chaim Hacohen (Shiraz, Iran 1884 - Jerusalem 1954). Cohen made aliyah in 1890 and was an innovative leading figure in Jerusalem during the early-mid 20th C. He served as a member of the First and Second Assembly of Representatives (1920-1931), and as a judge in the Jerusalem courts, founded (with his brother) the Ohavei Tzion synagogue, and was a leader of the local Persian community.
In his youth, Cohen worked as an employee of the printing press of Avraham Moshe Lunz, and was one of the founders of the Printing Press Association in Jerusalem. In 1913 he founded a private printing press in Jerusalem, where important and valuable books were printed. His press was the first of its kind in Israel to have printing plates for fold-out pages.