Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Avraham Soskin - A Group Photograph of the Students and Teachers of the School of the "Ezra" Society in Jaffa

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"The School for Boys established by the 'HaEzra' Society'", a photograph by Avraham Soskin. Jaffa, [ca. 1910].
A group photograph of the students and teachers of the school established by the "Ezra" Society in Jaffa. Among the photographed, the writer and translator Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz (Azar), who was a teacher at the schools of "Ezra" and "Tachkemoni", and the student Yosef Sapir (1902-1972), who was later a minister of the Israeli government.
The photograph is captioned in Hebrew in the plate ("The School for Boys established by the 'HaEzra' Society'") and stamped with the stamp of the photographer Avraham Soskin (embossed). On the frame of the photograph, a handwritten Hebrew note is mounted: "1910, I am sitting in the second row … behind Yosef Sapir".
Approx. 21.5x29 cm, in a 23x30.5 cm frame. Overall good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. Unexamined out of the frame.
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