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Teacher Yitzchak Gur-Aryeh – Collection of Photos and Documents – Tel-Aviv
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Teacher Yitzchak Gur-Aryeh – Collection of Photos and Documents – Tel-Aviv
Collection of documents and photographs from teacher Yitzchak Gur-Aryeh (Pikengur). Erez Israel and Eastern Europe, 1910’s-40’s.
Gur-Aryeh was born in Volhynie in 1889, he moved to Israel in 1923 and passed away in Tel-Aviv in 1957. Learned at the Brisk Yeshiva in Lithuania and at the Odessa Yeshiva around the time of Klausner and Bialik; graduated from the Petersburg Hebrew Academy. Began studying law at the University of Odessa, but was forced to flee Odessa and drop his studies due to “the political events affecting Russia”. Taught at the Tel-Aviv High School of Business and authored several pamphlets.
The collection includes: 40 photographs, most of which are group photos taken with the schoolchildren and are glued on cardboard; some photos were taken before he moved to Israel; 28 various documents including: letters, handwritten Geography and Eastern European History notes, a membership certificate from the “Beit-Am” company, the program of the 20th Zionistic Congress, a review of “Shir-Ha-Shirim” with illustrations by artist Ze’ev Raban, an admission ticket to the first convention of the Hebrew Teachers of Russia (1917); 4 printed booklets authored by Gur-Aryeh.
About 70 items total, varying sizes and condition.
