"Begerush Kafrisin", album with twenty six Linocuts portraying the life of She'erit HaPleita in the Cyprus internment camps, by art students, exiles in Cyprus, tutored by Naftali Bezem. Cyprus, 1948.
On the first leaf, a handwritten inscription was added: "this book was prepared by students of the art department near the seminary for teachers in the Cyprus camps and was printed and bound by the students in 120 copies". Also bears a dedication from February 1948.
The album opens with a short introduction (Linocut): "Cyprus is one stop on the road of suffering on the way to Eretz Israel. It means thorny barbed wire fences, forced idleness, and degeneration. Even in this existence there was life. Friends from the Camp in Cyprus tell about this life in this book". The Pinchas Rotenberg seminary was active in Cyprus internment camps, financed by the Joint, from mid 1947 through 1949. The seminary founded schools in the camps, that taught numerous subjects. Staffs of teachers, of the best in Israel, arrived in Cyprus, including artists (Naftali Bezem, Ze'ev Ben-Zvi and others) who guided the various art workshops.
[29] Leaves, 49.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Original binding with an imprint - a Linocut. Wear and small tears to cover, Water stains and minor tears to prints (Do not affect images).