Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

Heft, 8 Seiten; 34 cm; geheftet; 1 Beiblatt / Titelliste sowie 16 Blätter mit Zeichnungen, auf dickem Papier; zus. in Orig.-Mappe.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Exemplar; Heft stw. leicht nachgedunkelt; die Mappe mit leichten Lagerspuren u. etwas berieben. - Textheft englisch und Hebräisch. - KOMPLETT. - Printing of this Album limited to 1.050 Copies / of which this Album is Number 98. - LIST OF CHERNIAK DRAWINGS IN THIS ALBUM: 1. VIEW OF THE KNESSET ----- 2. THE WESTERN WALL (Wailing Wall; Kotel Hama'aravi) ----- 3. PILLAR OF ABSALOM IN THE VALLEY OF KIDRON ----- 4. SMALL WOOD NEAR JERUSALEM ----- 5. FOREST OF JERUSALEM ----- 6. MILITARY CEMETERY ON MOUNT HERZL ----- 7. MONASTERY OF THE CROSS ----- 8. DOME OF THE ROCK (Mosque of Omar; Haram es Sherif) ----- 9. A VIEW OF HECHAL SHLOMO (Synagogue and Faculties of Chief Rabbinate) ----- 10. VIEW OF JERUSALEM Y.M.C.A. ----- 11. WINDMILL IN YEMIN MOSHE QUARTER ----- 12. VIEW OF THE OLD CITY AND MT. OF OLIVES FROM NOTRE DAME de FRANCE ----- 13. A TOMB IN THE HILLS OF JUDEA ----- 14. TOWER OF DAVID, NEAR YAFO (JAFFA) GATE (not shown) ----- 15. DORMITION ABBEY ON MOUNT ZION ----- 16. MANACHAT QUARTER IN JERUSALEM. // With this self-revealing little rhyme, Abraham Cherniak ? architect, artist, and poet ? opens his collection of poems, in which meditation and pure lyricism mingle in an outpouring of the man within and of himself. In his numerous drawings, created over a period of many years, the Jerusalem scene predominates, a recurring echo of a love and a yearning that has endured throughout his life. The life of Abraham Cherniak is a mosaic of many landscapes, all of them nurtured within him during a lifetime of day to day activity and artistic creativity, latent within him. Jerusalem for him was a sounding board and the fountain of his inspiration. "We are the youth of the Revolution", proclaimed Jewish students in Russia in the early nineteen-twenties. One of the representatives of this generation was Abraham Cherniak, a student at one of the engineering schools in Moscow. "The wave passed over us, too, and we aspire to the materialisation of Socialism. But in addition to that we claim a homeland for the Jewish people." This credo was still accepted in the first years of the Soviet regime, and it was voiced openly and proudly by the members of the Academic Jewish Youth Organisation "He-haver" (I.S.Y.F.), of which Cherniak was one of the leaders. ... (aus dem Textheft) // Proceeds from the sale of this album will be devoted to the A. CHERNIAK - RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT REHABILITATION FUND ... Publisher: A. BEN YEHEZKIAL; Lithographed by: UNITED ARTISTS, LTD., ISRAEL, 1968.