Twenty-one black-and-white photographs of Jerusalem shortly after the War of Independence – most or all by Israeli photographer Zeev Hertz. Jerusalem and its environs, [ca. early 1950s].
Black and white photographs, most printed in large format, documenting Jerusalem in the early years of the State of Israel: fireworks above the Keren Hayesod building; an elderly woman seated near the entrance to Barclays Bank; two homeless men with a copy of HaBoker newspaper; cars on King George Street (one license plate numbered 38); and more. Five photographs, taken from the top of the YMCA tower, form a panoramic view of Jerusalem during this period (possibly part of a larger original panorama).
Zeev Hertz (b. 1922), Israeli photographer and commander of the IDF photography unit during the War of Independence. Born in Prague to a family of scholars, he built his first camera at the age of ten. In 1940 he immigrated to Palestine, enlisted in the British Army, and served in Europe as a military photographer. After the war he studied photography in Europe and art at Bezalel. Founder and director of the Museum of Photography in Tel Hai.
Size and condition vary. Mounted on heavy paper boards; some bear the photographer’s inked stamp on verso (in Hebrew or English).
