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"A Jewish colony" dated sometime between 1898 and 1946. Where and when was the picture taken? The buildings in the circles help identify the site |
Here are more pictures from the American Colony collection dated between 1898 and 1946. Not only is the date uncertain, but so is the location of the pictures.
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"Harvesting, Jewish colony" (1898-1946) Note the ultra-Orthodox man under the umbrella. In the Library of Congress digital collection the two harvesting pictures are adjacent to the large photo of the horse and buggy on the top right |
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"Jewish colony harvesting" (1898-1946) Note the same machinery in the two pictures |
The photo of the horse and buggy on the top right was taken at the Mikve Yisrael Agricultural School, established in 1870, near what later became Tel Aviv. Note the building with the central chimney which appears in other photographs below. The "Jewish colony harvesting" pictures are located in adjacent files to the horse and buggy picture.
The American Colony photographers took dozens of pictures of the "Jewish colonies and settlements," no doubt reflecting their Christian "end-of-days" theology which supported the return of Jews to the Holy Land. The founder of the American Colony's photographic department, Elijah Meyers, a Jew from India who converted to Christianity, produced a photographic documentary of the Jewish communities already in 1897.
An earlier posting:
Training Israel's Farmers 140 Years Ago at Mikve Yisrael Agricultural School
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Photo captioned "Mikweh" Note the two buildings in the buggy picture |
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Mikveh Yisrael students |
The Mikve Yisrael Agricultural School was the result.
Founded in 1870 by Karl Netter of the French Jewish organization, Alliance IsraƩlite Universelle, the school was allocated 750 acres by Palestine's Ottoman rulers. It was one of the first modern Jewish schools in Eretz Yisrael.
Pictured here (left) is the Mikve Yisrael wine cellar, built in 1883.![]() |
"Mikweh" photo and the chimney |
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Wine cellar (1898) |
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The montage of the two men.(Not from the Library of Congress collection) |
The school was the site of the historic 1898 meeting between Theodore Herzl and the German Emperor, Wilhelm II. Herzl requested that the Emperor intercede with his ally, the Ottoman Sultan, to establish a Jewish state.
The famous picture of the meeting, however, is not real. The photographer (apparently not one of the American Colony photographers) "missed the shot" and created a photo montage instead.
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