Jewish Israel Zionism Picture/ Photo of Yosef Sprinzak, Mapai, Ephraim Erde 1954

Description

Photo (black & white) of
Yosef Sprinzak
,
Speaker of the Knesset on the Mapai Council.
photographer: Ephraim Erde
Size: 30*24 cm
Year: 1954
Yosef Sprinzak (1885-1959)
was a leading Zionist activist in the first half of the 20th century, an Israeli politician, and the first Speaker of the Knesset, a role he held from 1949 until his death in 1959.
He was born in Moscow, Russia but following the expulsion of Jews in 1891 moved with his family to Kishinev where he was a founder of the Tze'irei Zion (Zion Youth). He began medical school at the American University in Beirut in 1908 and settled in Palestine in 1910, during the Second Aliyah
(1904–1914).
Along with Eliezer Kaplan Sprinzak headed Hapoel Hatzair ("The Young Worker") a Zionist socialist faction formed in 1905 and one of the organisations that consolidated to form Mapai in 1930. Its members were pro-British and supported Chaim Weizmann.[1] He was a founder of the Histadrut in 1920 and acted as secretary general of the organisation from 1945 to 1949
.
His son Yair Sprinzak also served in the Knesset. Another son, Aharon David Sprinzak, an Israeli Air Force pilot, was killed in action during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. His grandson, Ehud Sprinzak (1940-2002) was one of Israel's foremost experts on counterterrorism and far-right Jewish groups.
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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