1939 Palestine ART BOOK 20 LINOCUTS Israel YOHANAN SIMON Jewish HASHOMER HATZAIR

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1939 Palestine ART BOOK 20 LINOCUTS Israel YOHANAN SIMON Jewish HASHOMER HATZAIR:
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DESCRIPTION : Here for sale is an ORIGINAL very rare Judaica JEWISH ART BOOKwhich was createdin 1939in Eretz Israel ( Then also refered to as PALESTINE ) , Around a whole decade before the establishment of theSTATE OF ISRAEL and its 1948 WAR of INDEPENDENCE . The poetic ART ANTHOLOGY named \" BESHIR UBECHERET\" - ( \"With SONG and with ENGRAVING SCULP\" ) , An anthology of POLITICAL - SOCIALIST - ZIONIST POEMS by kibbutz members which was published in 1939 by the Kibbutzim of \"HASHOMER HATZAIR\" was accompanied by around TWENTY ORIGINAL LINOCUTS , Printed on separate paper sheets , Originaly bound with the book , FIVE lynol cuts wetre made by the Kibbutz born , Israeli artist YOHANAN SIMON , A member of OFAKIM HADASHIM ( NEW HORIZONS ) art movement . A strong influence of FRANS MASEREEL is evident in many of the lynol cuts. The pieces , Dedicated to \" WORK , LABOUR , REDEEM of LAND and DEFENSE \" Depict TYPICAL sceneries ofKibbutz members working in the KIBBUTZ FIELDS etc . Very typical YOHANAN SIMON line , The faces, The expressions , The whole scenery . SIMON work was influenced by the Fauvism of Lager, Derain and Diego Rivera. This fact is strongly evident in this Israeli-Jewish-Hebrew piece of ART. TheLINOCUTSwere made in B&W except the front cover which is in COLOR Size is around 8.5 x 11 \"80 pp.Illustrated ( Original LINOCUT ) SC. Very good condition. Tightly bound. Clean. SC edges somewhat chipped..( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images ) .Will be sent in a special protective rigid sealed packaging . AUTHENTICITY : Thisis anORIGINALvintage 1939 piece, NOT a reproduction or a reprint , Itholds alife long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal .

SHIPPMENT : Shipp worldwide via registered airmail is $ 17 .Will be sent in a special protective rigid sealed packaging . Will be sent within3-5 days after payment . Kindly note that duration of Int\'l registered airmail is around 14 days.

Yohanan Simon, the painter most highly regarded bythe Hakibbutz Ha’artzi and the Hashomer Ha’tzair movements, depicted kibbutzlife in an idyllic manner. In Sabbath on the Kibbutz, parents and children are shownat leisure. Anonymous kibbutz members stand in the background, while the familyat the center of the image appears as a separate compositional unit. Thephysical contact between the parents and their children emphasizes the pivotalimportance that Simon attributed to the family, even within the context of thekibbutz, whose ideological foundations rejected many aspects of the bourgeoisconcept of family. Seen together, the people, the animals, and the landscapeconstitute a harmonious, unified image that underscores the connection betweenman and natureBorn inBerlin. Studied in the studio of Max Backman.In the late 20\'s he joined a circle of young painters around Andre\' Derain.Later he lived in Paris until he immigrated to Palestine in 1936. From thatyear until 1953 he was a member of Kibbutz Gan-Shmuel.YohananSimonwas active in the Hagana and participated in the War of Liberation.Since 1953 he has lived in Tel-Aviv. In 1954-55 and 1961 he traveledextensively in South America and the United States and during 1958-9 in Europe.Since 1962 he lives in Herzelia, Israel, and his Israeli art works of his canbe found in the collection of the Engel Galleries. Simon\'s early work can bedescribed as Social Realism, he used to paint scenery from the Kibbutz. In hismature work, after he traveled in South America, he freed himself from thesocial realism and became more abstract and colorful. His work was influencedby the Fauvism of Lager, Derain and Diego RiveraYohanan Simon was born in 1905in Berlin. Simon studied in the studio of Max Backman. Inthe late 20\'s hejoined a circle of young painters around Andre\' Derain. Later he lived in Parisuntil he immigrated to Palestine in 1936. From that year until 1953 he was amember of Kibbutz Gan-Shmuel.Yohanan Simonwas active in the Haganaand participated in the War of Liberation. Since 1953 he has lived in Tel-Aviv.In 1954-55 and 1961 he traveled extensively in South America and the UnitedStates and during 1958-9 in Europe. Since 1962 he lived in Herzelia, Israel.Simon\'s early work can be described as Social Realism, he used to paint sceneryfrom the Kibbutz. In his mature work, after he traveled in South America, hefreed himself from the social realism and became more abstract and colorful.His work was influenced by the Fauvism of Lager, Derain and Diego Rivera.Simon died in 1976. Yohanan Simon was born in Berlin in 1905. He studied inFrankfurt with Beckmann, at the Art Academy in Munich and at the EcoleBeaux-Arts in Paris. During the late 1920s, he joined a circle of youngpainters that included Andre Derain. In 1934, Simon worked for the journal,“Vogue” in New York. Simon lived in Paris, for a time, before immigrating toPalestine in 1936. He was a member of Kibbutz Gan- Shmuel until 1953 and he wasactive in the Hagana. He also participated in the War of Liberation. Hetraveled extensively in South America and the United States from 1954-1955 andin 1961. He also visited Europe in 1958. In 1962 Simon moved to Herzelia and hedied in Israel in 1976. Yohanan Simon, the painter most highly regarded by theHakibbutz Ha’artzi and the Hashomer Ha’tzair movements, depicted kibbutz lifein an idyllic manner. In Sabbath on the Kibbutz, parents and children are shownat leisure. Anonymous kibbutz members stand in the background, while the familyat the center of the image appears as a separate compositional unit. Thephysical contact between the parents and their children emphasizes the pivotalimportance that Simon attributed to the family, even within the context of thekibbutz, whose ideological foundations rejected many aspects of the bourgeoisconcept of family. Seen together, the people, the animals, and the landscapeconstitute a harmonious, unified image that underscores the connection betweenman and nature Hashomer Hatzair (Hebrew: השומר הצעיר‎, also transliteratedHashomer Hatsair or HaShomer HaTzair, translating as The Youth Guard) isa Socialist–Zionist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary,and was also the name of the group\'s political party in the Yishuv in thepre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine. (see Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party ofPalestine). Hashomer Hatzair along with HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed of Israel aremembers of the International Falcon Movement - Socialist EducationInternationalEarlyformation Hashomer Hatzair came into being as a result of themerger of two groups, Hashomer (\"The Guard\") a Zionistscouting group, and Ze\'irei Zion (\"The Youth of Zion\") whichwas an ideological circle that studied Zionism, socialism and Jewish history.Hashomer Hatzair is the oldest Zionist youth movement still in existence.Initially Marxist-Zionist, the movement was influenced by the ideas of BerBorochov and Gustav Wyneken as well as Baden-Powell and the German Wandervogelmovement. Hashomer Hatzair believed that the liberation of Jewish youth couldbe accomplished by aliya (\"immigration\") to Palestine and living in kibbutzim.After the war the movement spread to Jewish communities throughout the world asa scouting movement. Members of the movement settled in Mandatory Palestine asearly as in 1919. In 1927, the four kibbutzim founded by Hashomer Hatzairbanded together to form the Kibbutz Artzi federation. The movement also formeda political party which shared the name Hashomer Hartzair, advocating a binationalsolution in mandatory Palestine with equality between Arabs and Jews. That iswhy, when a small group of Zionist leaders met in New York in May 1942 in theBiltmore Hotel, Hashomer Hatzair representatives voted against the so-called BiltmoreProgram. In 1936, the kibbutz-based Hashomer Hatzair party launched an urbanpolitical party, the Socialist League of Palestine, which wouldrepresent non-kibbutzniks who shared the political approach of the members ofHashomer Hatzair kibbutzim and the youth movement in the politicalorganizations of the Yishuv (as the Jewish community in Palestine wasknown). The Socialist League was the only Zionist political party within theYishuv to accept Arab members as equals, support Arab rights, and call for a binationalstate in Palestine. In the 1930s, Hashomer Hatzair (along with Mapai) wasaffiliated with the left-wing \"Three-and-a-half\" International, the InternationalRevolutionary Marxist Centre (also known as the \"London Bureau\") ratherthan the more mainstream socialist Labour and Socialist International or the LeninistThird International. Growthand the HolocaustBy1939, Hashomer Hatzair had 70,000 members worldwide. The movement\'s membershipbase was in Eastern Europe. With the advent of World War II and the Holocaust,members of Hashomer Hatzair focused their attention on resistance against the Nazis.Mordechaj Anielewicz, the leader of Hashomer Hatzair\'s Warsaw branch, becamehead of the Jewish Fighting Organization and one of the leaders of the WarsawGhetto Uprising. Other members of the movement were involved in Jewishresistance and rescue in Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia. The leaders ofHashomer Hatzair in Romania were arrested and executed for anti-fascistactivities. After the war, the movement was involved in organizing illegalimmigration of Jewish refugees to Palestine. Members were also involved in the Haganahmilitary movement as well as in the leadership of the Palmach. Hashomer Hatzair today Today,Hashomer Hatzair continues as a youth movement based in Israel, and operatesinternationally. In Europe, North and Latin America, as well as in Australia,Hashomer Hatzair organizes activities and camps (machanot) for the youth.Activities are still relatively ideological, but over time have been adapted tothe needs of modern communities, vastly different from the context in whichHashomer Hatzair was created. The movement has 7,000 members worldwide(excluding Israel) running weekly youth activities and camps in Germany,Canada, the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay,Chile, France, Belgium. Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Hungary,Bulgaria, Belarus, Ukraine and Australia. Famous alumni include Arik Einstein, TonyCliff, Ernest Mandel, Mordecai Anielewicz, Abraham Leon, Benny Morris, ElianeKarp, Leopold Trepper, Amnon Linn, Zahara Rubin, Abba Hushi, Sam Spiegel, IrvWeinstein, Manès Sperber, Leon Rosselson, José Gurvich, Milo Adler Gilles andeven Isser Harel and Menachem Begin who were briefly members before joining Mapaiand the right wing Betar respectively, as well as Kerem B\'Yavneh Rabbi AvrahamRivlin. Noam Chomsky sympathized with and worked with the group, although hewas never a member. With the merger of the United Kibbutz Movement and KibbutzArtzi, the likelihood of a merger between Hashomer Hatzair and UKM\'s youthmovement, Habonim Dror, has increased and the two youth movements, once rivals,have increasingly co-operated in various countries where they co-exist. Themovements even share an office in New York. However, the views of each movementon religion may be an obstacle to merger as Habonim Dror has a strongeridentification with cultural Judaism as opposed to Hashomer Hatzair, which hasbeen at times stridently secular and anti-religious — seeing itself as a leaderof a legitimate expression of a secular stream of Judaism. Brazil In Brazil,\"Shomer\" has five branches: Rio de Janeiro (2), São Paulo, Florianópolisand Brasilia. Normally, the activities runs weekly meetings as well asbi-annual camps. The educations goes out of the Jewish community too and theachievers goes up to \"Favela do Borel\" to educate the poor childrenfrom Rio de Janeiro. Argentina Oncea huge movement inside the large Argentinian Jewish Community, Hashomer HatzairArgentina suffered from decay common to all Zionist youth movements inArgentina during the last decades, as well as several military dictatorships inthe country\'s history that directly or indirectly led to the closure of severalof its kenim. Today the movement operates in Tzavta Centro Comunitario(Tzavta Community Center), in the neighborhood of Almagro, City of Buenos Aires.It is one of 9 Zionist Youth Movements in the city. It has around 120 members,running regular Saturday activities and secular Kabalat Shabat service, besidestwo machanot per year. Australia Themovement in Australia is located in Melbourne and was established in 1953 as abreak away from Habonim Dror. There was briefly a ken (branch) in Sydneyduring the 1960s, but it closed due to a lack of members. Many of the original bogrim(leaders) of Australian Hashomer Hatzair settled in kibbutz Nirim. Its buildingin Melbourne is known as Beit Anielewicz, located in the suburb of St KildaEast, and is currently being upgraded. It runs weekly meetings as well asbi-annual camps which take place in the Australian outback, during the summerand winter months. Currently there are close to one hundred members of \'Hashy\'Australia. Meetings are held every Sunday from 3–5pm for Juniors and 6–8pm forSenior. During Year 10 (age: 15–16) chanichim undergo a \'hadrachah\'(leadership) course. This course is run by current bogrim in the movement andteaches the chanichim leadership skills which are used when they lead membersof the Junior movement in Year 11. The current Year 11 madrichim (leaders) arefrom the group of Metzer. Hashomer Hatzair Australia has a strong belief thatchanichim should be active in the community, helping whenever they can. Membersoften go to rallies and run programs for disadvantaged children. In Hashomer Australia,every year level has its own kvutza (group). These groups are named afterHashomer kibutzim in Israel. Current kvutzot include: Ga\'ash, Sasa, Nir Oz, Lahavand Metzer, to name a few. As with most of the kenim around the world, everyyear Hashy sends the chanichim who have just completed school on a 10-monthShnat program in Israel. The current group in Israel is Sasa. The members ofSasa are Libby Jedwab, Asher Cohen, Evie Isaacs, Emma Lippmann, Georgia Einfeldand Ellie Savion. After returning from the Shnat program, bogrim have a twoyear commitment to the movement in which they lead the chanichim of themovement or take up various administrative roles (tafkidim), including Merakez(head of the movement), Rosh Hinukh (head of education), Mazkir (secretary) andGizbar (treasurer). The current bogrim are from the groups of Nir-oz and Ga\'ash.Jackie Lange is the Merakezet of 2011. USA and Canada In the United States andCanada camps last through the school summer vacation. The two summer camps in Liberty,New York, USA and Perth, Ontario, Canada are both called Camp Shomria.In addition, the movement runs activities in cities across the continentthroughout the year promoting the peace process, socialist-Zionism, HagshamaAtzmit (self-actualization), withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza, and socialactivism. Through seminars, camps (winter/summer), worldwide programs, andweekly activities wherein youth leads youth, Hashomer Hatzair aims to create ajust world through socialism, equality, and the betterment of Israel and theworld. There are currently kenim in Toronto, northern New Jersey, and NYC. TheUnited States is currently in the process of recreating kenim inPhiladelphia, Westchester, NY, and Albany, NY. Hashomer Hatzair hascollaborated with Habonim Dror and other left-wing Zionist groups to form the Unionof Progressive Zionists campus network. Israel After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the HashomerHatzair Workers Party merged with other left wing parties to form Mapam whichbecame the political party of both the youth movement and the Kibbutz Artzifederation. In Israel it was traditionally aligned with Mapam and later Meretz.It is not officially aligned with Meretz\'s successor party, Meretz-Yachad.After a recent merger of the Meretz-aligned Kibbutz Artzi Federation with the LabourParty\'s United Kibbutz Movement, Hashomer Hatzair is officially not alignedwith either party though, by tradition, it is close in outlook toMeretz-Yachad. France InFrance, the youth movement spells Hachomer Hatzaïr with a \"c\". It wasfounded in Paris in Belleville area, in 1933, by Jews from Poland and Tunisia.Hashomer Hatzair France is extremely active, it has weekly activities, summer,winter and automn camps. There are now about 500 members. South Africa HashomerHatzair operated in South Africa until sometime in the 1980s when the SouthAfrica government banned the movement and arrested its members because of theiranti-apartheid teachings and activism. Austria The Austrian Hashomer Hatzair traces its rootsto the original Hashomer Hatzair founded in the Galicia region of the Austro-HungarianEmpire. The Hashomer were among the earliest members of the ÖsterreichischerPfadfinderbund in 1914. We also founded the first Ken which is located atDesider-Friedmannplatz 1b, 1010 Vienna. Their most significant members areDaniel Wanne, Galileo Batko-Klein, William Elgan, Samuel Schrott, JonathanDavidowicz and Emanuel Hess. It holds around seventy members. The Ken meetsevery Saturday at 3:00, its peulots are usually from 3-5 and the eveningsprogram is from 5-7. The Ken usually has three active kvutzots and one Bogrimkvutza. The Ken has two machanot each year in the winter and summer and acouple of tijulim, every second year the oldest kvutzot the bogrim and theoldest kvutza go to machane israel in which they attend the Seminar Tzofi. Italy Hashomer Hatzair operatesfour kens (branches) in Italy — in Rome, Milan, Florence, and Turin. Belgium In Belgium, HashomerHatzaïr was established in 1920. Today, 220 hanihim come each Saturday to takepart in folk dancing (rekudei\'am), ludic activities (peoulot) and Shabbatcelebrations (oneg shabbat). Four camps are organized throughout the year. TheNovember, Winter and Easter camps usually take place in Holland and the Summercamp in France. The shaliah is Tal Eitan and the shirfa madrihim is composed ofMizra and Ein Dor and the roshken are Estelle Levy and Nicolas Markiewicz.There was a ken in Liege but it was too small so it has closed. Switzerland InSwitzerland, Ken Yitzhak Rabin in Zürich consists of some 100 hanihim, meetingon Shabbat afternoon and for two or three camps (annually in autumn and winter,bi-annually in summer), next to the Bogrim\'s bi-annual trips to Israel orPoland. Special events are held for Pessach, Chanuka and the Yitzhak Rabinmemorial. The Ken was founded in 1935 and joined World Hashomer in 1938. Duringthe 2nd world war, there were five major Kenim (Zurich, Basel, Berne, Biel,Geneva) plus activities in a few smaller cities and in the refugee centers.Swiss Shomer members having made alija can be encountered e.g. in LehavotHabashan and Magen. Today (2009), the Shomer is the largest Jewish youthmovement in Switzerland. Chile TheChilean branch of Hashomer Hatzair was founded more than 60 years ago and itcontinues educating young Jewish Chileans with the values of social justice,fraternity, judaism and love for Israel. Currently there are 50-100 membersaged 9–22 who meet every Saturday in the Ken located in Santiago. These areyoung chaverim that self organize and most of them do not belong to any Jewishcollectivity or entity, thus most of them will have no link to anything Jewishif it wasn\'t for the tnua. For further info, visit the up-to-date website inSpanish. Mexico TheMexican branch of Hashomer Hatzair was established in 1940. Since 1983, its\"ken\" (Hebrew for \"nest\", i.e., its headquarters), namedafter Mordechai Anielewicz, is currently located in the Polanco neighbourhood,western part of Mexico city. Hashomer Hatzair Mexico was founded by AvnerAliphas, a Hebrew professor at the Yiddish school of Mexico and later founderof the \"Tarbut\" Jewish day school in 1942. Aliphas was born in Kolno,Poland, in 1911, and made aliyah (immigrated to Eretz Israel) in 1936 to joinKibbutz Negba, and in 1938 he helped establish Kibbutz Hanita. In 1939 hereturned to Kolno after his mother died and luckily got out before the Naziinvasion to attend a Zionist conference in Paris. When the war broke out andcould not go back to Israel, he traveled to Mexico where he became active inthe Zionist movement. In 1940, supported by the Zionist Organization in Mexico,Aliphas founded Hashomer Hatzair in Mexico, thus giving an option for youngpeople who had been educated towards Zionism at home. This was the first Jewishyouth movement that existed in the country; its first Ken was in Tacuba 15, inthe city center. During the next decades, Hashomer Hatzair was one of the fewplaces for secular socialization for the Jewish community. The movement hadnational presence, with Kenim in several cities, such as San Luis Potosí and Monterrey.As of the present day, the Mexican branch of Hashomer Hatzair comprisesapproximately eighty members who regularly attend cultural, educational andsporting events as a group. LifeMovement (Tnuat Bogrim / Kidmah / Kidma / Kidmat Anilewicz) Aroundthe world, Hashomer Hatzair members have founded a life movement to pick upwhere the youth movement leaves off. Groups have been organized in Israel byIsraelis and non-Israelis, and others were formed in their countries of origin(such as in Canada, the United States, Switzerland and Hungary). Canada and the UnitedStates The LifeMovement in the United States and Canada hascreated three urban communes, one in New York and two in Toronto where membersare experimenting with the Israeli model of communot in their home societies.In addition, a new winter trip to Israel for Bogrim called Mifgash takes placeyearly