A common language: Land of Israel part 2
Early Tel Aviv houses, palm trees in Rishon Lezion, and water carriers on the Temple Mount – landscapes we have forgotten, views we’ve never seen and people who left us long ago, in a postcard collection photographed by Shlomo Narinsky in the 1920’s
Photographer Shlomo Narinsky (1885-1960) took many pictures during his first years in Israel. He sold more than 100 of them to the Jamal Bros. printing company in Jerusalem, which printed sepia-toned postcards of them in 1920 and added English, Hebrew and Arabic captions. More of the photo collection is presented below. We left the captions as they were written, including the mistakes and the explanations which varied from language to language.
Tel Aviv
The River Auja (Hebrew: On the Yarkon)
Palm boulevard in Rishon Lezion
Ein Kerem
On the Temple Mount
Antonia Tower, Jerusalem
Water-bearers in Amar Mosque courtyard
Jerusalem's northern wall
Rachel's Tomb
Wadi Qelt on the way to Jericho
Porat Spring
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