The sign tells about Sheinkin and Brenner
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[Parts 1–2]
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Click for a larger image Translation of the text on the sign:
[Panel 1]
“Tel Aviv is too small – people bump into each other too often.”
“Everyone is always together, and a word spoken in one house immediately grows wings ...”
“Every Jew here represents his own ‘movement’ or ‘idea’ ...”
(Chaim Weizmann, April 19, 1918)
[Panel 2]
[Painting]
Reuven Rubin, Tel Aviv, 1923, oil on canvas
Courtesy of the Rubin Museum
Reuven Rubin (Section V] [Row 1]
[Panel 3]
Menachem Mendel Sheinkin Zionist activist, one of the founders of Ahuzat Bayit and co-founder of the Craftsmen’s Center.
He fought for the principle of building the city exclusively with Hebrew labor and for the naming of the city Tel Aviv.
He served as head of the Immigration Bureau of the Zionist Executive.
Published articles on Zionism and the settlement of the Land of Israel.
Killed in a car accident in the United States, where he had worked on behalf of settlement in the Land of Israel.
Menachem Mendel Sheinkin [Section BI] [Row 19]
[Panel 4]
Y. H. Brenner Hebrew writer who urged a new direction in Hebrew literature. In his stories, he explored the human soul.
Murdered in the 1921 Jaffa riots.
“The future and the present I do not have; only the past remains.”
(from In Winter by Y. H. Brenner)
Y. H. Brenner [Section B] [Row 21]
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