Tzadok Bassan - Photograph of Yeshivat Etz Chaim with a picture of the 'Saba Kadishah' Rabbi Shmuel Salant 'Shlita' ...

Tzadok Bassan - Photograph of Yeshivat Etz Chaim with a picture of the 'Saba Kadishah' Rabbi Shmuel Salant 'Shlita', Jerusalem [1908]

A group photo of the students of the Etz Chaim yeshiva, their teachers, and supervisors, headed by a rare photograph of the 'Saba Kadishah' Rabbi Shmuel Salant 'shlit "a' [1908] - Photographer:Tzadok Bassan.

The photograph was taken while the yeshiva was sitting in the Hurva courtyard in the Old City of Jerusalem. Was taken a few months before the passing of Rabbi Shmuel Salant. Above his picture appears the caption: 'This picture was made only for the benefit of the general Etz Chaim and there is no authority for any institution or individual to copy'. Apparently following the practice of Rabbi Shmuel Salant not to be photographed, went out of his way to benefit the institutions of the yeshiva and agreed that they would photograph him for its own benefit. We know of a similar photograph of Bassan that is slightly different from the one in front of us, where on the right and left are photographs of the yeshiva students on the yeshiva's balcony. In front of us, he added two rare photographs of groups of the soup kitchens of the yeshiva, where students can be seen in typical Jerusalem clothing, also typical of Oriental costumes.

The glass negatives Bassan used produced clear, sharp photographs that fit precisely the result sought in the group photographs in which he specialized Bassan, such as the one before us.

Size: 28x23 cm, partly glued to hard Board for maintenance, minor tears to margins.fine condition.