Shlomo Narinsky Holy Land photogravure postcard collection, 1921.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Narinsky, Shlomo, 1885-1960, creator.

Language:

Arabic

English

Hebrew

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Jews.

Jews--Palestine.

Photography.

Palestine.

Palestine--Description and travel.

Photographers.

Genre:

photographic postcards

photogravures (prints)

postcards

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Kedem Auction House Ltd. (Sale 31, Lot 107), 2015.

Physical Description:

1 box (.75 linear foot)

Place of Publication:

1921.

Biography/History:

Shlomo (Salomon) Narinsky was born in 1885 in either the village of Abyan in Ukraine or in Warsaw, as noted in his file at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). In Moscow, Narinsky studied visual arts, while he received his formal training in photography in Paris and Berlin. Narinsky first traveled to the Ottoman Empire's Palestine in 1906 where he settled in Jerusalem and opened a photography studio. In 1932, Narinsky moved to Paris where he opened his second photography studio. With the advent of World War II and the Nazi invasion of France, Narinsky was interned in the Drancy, Saint-Denis and Vittel detention camps. In 1944, Shlomo and his wife, Sonia, were released and sent to Palestine in the Third German-Palestinian Exchange. Shlomo lived the rest of his life in Israel, settling first in Kibbutz Ein Harod and then moving to Haifa in the 1950s. Shlomo Narinsky died in Haifa in 1960.

Summary:

The Shlomo Narinsky Holy Land photogravure postcard collection consists of 99 postcards, with photogravures by Shlomo Narinsky printed on the front, depicting scenes from Mandatory Palestine, dating from 1921. As the postcards were pasted onto paper in 1980, the captions on the backs of the cards are not visible. The majority of the postcards depict the landscape of Mandatory Palestine, religious sites and the local people of the region. Cities such as Jaffa (today Tel-Aviv), Galilee, Jerusalem and Bethlehem are featured in this collection. Religious sites such as the Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem), Rachel's tomb, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Mosque of Omar (Jerusalem), and the Al-Aqsa Mosque can be found in this collection. The postcards depict fisherman, shepherds, Yemenite Jews, Bedouins, and Orthodox Jews in Mandatory Palestine. The postcards are housed in a covered cardboard box with a leather label printed in gold which reads "Old Jerusalem : The Holy Land, 1910-1921, Photogravures by S. Narinsky." Ten of the cards are becoming detached from the paper and one postcard is completely detached.

OCLC:

1537978120