Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Event poster illustrated by destroyed buildings issued by the Association for Aid and Rescue of Jews from Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) and the vicinity. It announces an event for Holocaust survivors by Habimah, an internationally acclaimed Hebrew repertory theater company founded in Moscow in 1918, with training and support from Stanislavski. Members of the troupe hoped to create a Jewish renaissance by reviving the Hebrew language. Habimah left the Soviet Union in 1926, and toured throughout the world until splitting in 1927. Some members settled in Palestine and Habimah was reestablished in Tel Aviv in the 1930s, eventually becoming Israel's National Theater. Among the participants at this event were Yehoshua Bertonov (1879-1971), and Shmuel Rodensky (1904-1989), both natives of Lithuania and members of Habimah in Russia.
- Artwork Title
- Neshef Vilna
- Date
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publication/distribution:
approximately 1948-1950
- Geography
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publication:
Tel Aviv (Israel)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
- Markings
- front, top and bottom, blue ink : Hebrew text [artwork by Moshe Vorobeichic; printed in Tel Aviv by Y. Shoml Printing Press]
- Contributor
-
Designer:
Moshe Vorobeichic
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Classification
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Posters
- Category
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Performing arts posters
- Object Type
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Posters, Israeli (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Poster on paper affixed to linen backing with a centered blue and gray illustration of buildings connected by an arch, framed by a black silhouette of a broken brick wall, with Hebrew text along the top and bottom.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 29.250 inches (74.295 cm) | Width: 21.500 inches (54.61 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, linen, adhesive
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Posters.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011.
- Funding Note
- The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.
The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-11-07 11:30:24
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