21 posters used as Hebrew-language teaching aids, illustrated in color. Vienna: Hebrew publishing house Menorah, [1920s?]. Hebrew.
Collection of color posters intended to appear on school classroom walls. Each poster is devoted to a particular subject area: the different rooms that comprise a typical home, articles of clothing, nature and agriculture, professions, animals, the human body, and more. All the many various items and objects in each illustration are assigned numbers, and a legend at the bottom gives their Hebrew names. One particular poster presents the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, with each letter accompanied by an appropriate illustration.
The Hebrew publishing house Menorah was established in Vienna toward the end of the First World War. It specialized in Jewish books – in Hebrew and German – and Hebrew books in general.
The publishing house's founder, Rabbi Moses David Gross (1882-1966), a native of Hungary, served as a rabbi in Hungary and in Lucerne, Switzerland, and as a school principal in Bukovina. In 1913 he immigrated to Palestine, where he taught at the teachers' seminary run by Ezra (also known as the Relief Organization of German Jews). He left Palestine at the end of the First World War and moved to Vienna. There he founded the publishing house Menorah, whose bookstore would become a meeting place for Jewish intellectuals, in particular members of the Mizrachi and Agudath Israel movements. Gross moved back to Palestine in 1930 and began working for the Jewish National Fund, functioning at the same time as an activist on behalf of the Mizrachi movement. Among his best known (Hebrew) books are "Know What to Answer, " "The Complete [Hebrew-German] Dictionary, " and "The Aggadah Treasury." Passed away in Tel Aviv.
[21] posters, approx. 94X63.5 cm (several posters slightly larger). Condition varies. Stains to some posters. Creases. Tears, including open tears, to edges (mostly not affecting text or illustrations).