Jewish Israel Zionism Picture/ Photo Berl Katznelson, 1st May 1935. Ephraim Erde

Description

Photo (black & white) of Berl katznelson at May 1st celebration
photographer: Ephraim Erde
Size: 20* 30 cm
Year: 1935
Berl katznelson (1887- 1944)
was one of the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to the establishment of the modern state of Israel, and the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper of the workers' movement
.
Katznelson was born in Babruysk, Russian Empire (nowadays Belarus), the son of a member of Hovevei Zion. He dreamed of settling in the Jewish homeland from an early age. In Russia, he was a librarian in a Hebrew-Yiddish library and taught Hebrew literature and Jewish history. He made aliyah to Ottoman Palestine in 1909, where he worked in agriculture and took an active role in organizing workers' federations based on the idea of "common work, life and aspirations
."
Together with his cousin, Yitzhak Tabenkin, Katznelson was one of the founding fathers of the Israeli workers union, the Histadrut. In this capacity, together with Meir Rothberg of the Kinneret Farm,Katznelson founded in 1916 the consumer co-operative known as Hamashbir with the goal of supplying the Jewish communities of Palestine with food at affordable prices during the terrible shortage years of the First World War. When the British army reached southern Palestine in 1918, Katznelson joined the Jewish Legion. He was released from the army in 1920 and resumed his activities in the Labor Zionist movement. He helped to establish the Clalit Health Services sick fund, a major fixture in Israel's network of socialized medicine. In 1925, together with Moshe Beilinson, Katznelson established the Davar daily newspaper, and became its first editor, a position he held until his death, as well as becoming the founder and first editor-in-chief of the Am Oved publishing house
.
Katznelson was well known for his desire for peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews in Israel. He was an outspoken opponent of the Peel Commission's partition plan for Palestine.
Ephraim Erde (1905-1986)
An Israeli photographer, the pioneers of photography in Tel Aviv, the side Rudy Weissenstein and the successors of Avraham Soskin.
Ephraim Arda was born in a village in eastern Galicia (later on the border between Ukraine and Poland). In Hashomer Hatzair's training in Poland, he met a photographer in 1929, who taught him the basics of photography.
In 1933 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, first settling in Kibbutz Ein Hamifratz and from there he moved to Tel Aviv. In the first period, he photographed residents on the streets of Tel Aviv, then opened a studio called "Photo Eden" on Lilienblum Street, near Cinema Eden, and then, in the 1940s, opened "Photo Arda" at 55 corner of 1 Brenner Street (next to Whitman Ice Cream). A studio that also included a store for photography, and was a well-known Tel Aviv institution.
Many of the photographs were taken in the courtyard of the house, where there was a large mulberry tree that served as a background. Arda's photographs dealt with various and varied subjects: studio portraits, personalities and buildings, Eretz Israel and Tel Aviv, weddings, reproductions for painters, sports and dance, both in the private and institutional fields (for youth movements, sports associations and more).
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