The Jewish People and Palestine. A Bibliophilic Pilgrimage through Five Centuries. A Lecture Delivered by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Professor of Hebrew and of Jewish History, Harvard University. Introducing an Exhibition from the Judaica Collection of the Harvard College Library, Commemorating the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Establishment of the State of Israel(184 words)
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Charles Berlin.
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| Imprint |
Cambridge, Mass., USA, 1973. 263 pp., illustrations: 121 b&w, 21.5 × 28 cm. English.
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| Location |
Harvard University, Widener Library (25 April–25 May 1973)
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| Description |
A wealth of printed material illustrating the relationship between the Jewish people and Palestine. Six chronological topics provided the exhibition’s framework: Jewish Renaissance in 16th-Century Palestine, Palestine and the Diaspora in the 17th and 18th Centuries, Modern Palestinian “Incunables”, Zionism: Forerunners and Founders, Zionism as a Mass Movement, Pioneers of the Jewish Press in Palestine (Jerusalem and Safed), Palestinian Jewry under the Mandate, The Struggle for Independence. Introduction (delivered as a lecture and reprinted in the catalog) by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. Plate and descriptive entry for each exhibit. 120 items.
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| main keywords |
ERETZ ISRAEL
HEBREW PRINTING, ERETZ ISRAEL
JEWISH PRESS
PRINTED BOOKS
ZIONISM
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| minor keywords |
Hebrew printing, Jerusalem
Historical documents
Holy Land travelogues/itineraries
Kabbalah
Posters
Prints, Eretz Israel/Holy Land
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“The Jewish People and Palestine. A Bibliophilic Pilgrimage through Five Centuries. A Lecture Delivered by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Professor of Hebrew and of Jewish History, Harvard University. Introducing an Exhibition from the Judaica Collection of the Harvard College Library, Commemorating the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Establishment of the State of Israel”, in:
Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica.
Consulted online on 30 May 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC0461>
First published online: 2019
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