Ephraim Moses Lilien
The Figure of the “Beautiful Jewess,” the Orient, the Bible, and Zionism262
In 1906, graphic artist Ephraim Moses Lilien,263 born in Galicia, set out on his first trip to Ottoman Palestine, the first of three journeys he undertook before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.264 Lilien was among the founders of the Democratic Faction which, at the Fifth Zionist Congress, called for more active involvement in promoting culture in Zionism. His journey was intended to help fulfil the resolution passed at the Seventh Zionist Congress to found Bezalel, a Society for Establishing Jewish Cottage Industries and Crafts in Palestine.265 In late 1905, travelling via Lemberg and his hometown of Drohobycz as well ...
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