Jacob Jakob Eisenburg (Israel, 1897-1965), Judaica etching. Etching of a street in Jerusalem's Old City, where a Hassid walks down to the stret alongside an Arabic camel rider. Signed in plate lower right, J. Eisenberg.

Overall Size: 14 1/4 x 12 in. 

Sight Size: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. 

#2534 

Artist Biograph:
Jacob Jakob Eisenberg was born in Pinsk and immigrated to the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem in 1913. He studied at the School for Arts and Crafts in Vienna, specializing in ceramics, and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jersualem, where he continued as a teacher for many years.

Particularly notable was his creation of a series of ceramic plaques and murals for the early buildings of Tel Aviv. These included the cities first street signs, ceramic plaques in deep blue inscribed with the street names in Hebrew, Arabic, and English that were afixed to the corners of buildigns. The surviving plaques are now treasured historic landmarks. Large Eisenberg murals enliven the facade of several Tel Aviv buildings, including the 1925 Lederberg house at the intersection of Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby Street. The four murals show a JEwish pioneer sowing and harvesting, a shepherd, and Jerusalem with the verse from JEremiah 31:4: "Again I will rebuild the and thou shalt be rebuilt."

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