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21-578: Shemen may refer to: Places in Israel [ edit ] Ben Shemen Kerem Ben Shemen Oil [ edit ] Shemen (bible) , a commonly used word for oil in the Hebrew scriptures Shemen Afarsimon , an oil used in antiquity Shemen HaMishcha , Hebrew for Anointing Oil , mentioned in the Old Testament Topics referred to by

42-494: A complex of buildings constructed in the 1880s surrounded by a crenelated stone wall, owned by a wealthy Arab person. In 1907, the property was purchased for Boris Schatz by the Jewish National Fund . Schatz lived on the campus with his wife and children. Bezalel's first class consisted of 30 young art students from Europe who successfully passed the entrance exam. Eliezer Ben Yehuda was hired to teach Hebrew to

63-803: A crenelated roof and tower built outside Jaffa Gate in 1912. It was a shop and showroom for Bezalel souvenirs. The pavilion was demolished by the British authorities six years later. Bezalel developed a distinctive style of art, known as the Bezalel school , which portrayed Biblical and Zionist subjects in a style influenced by the European jugendstil ( Art Nouveau ) and traditional Persian and Syrian art. The artists blended "varied strands of surroundings, tradition and innovation," in paintings and craft objects that invokes "biblical themes, Islamic design and European traditions," in their effort to "carve out

84-546: A distinctive style of Jewish art" for the new nation they intended to build in the ancient Jewish homeland. Decorative ceramic tiles with figurative motives with both biblical and Zionist scenes were created in the 1920s at the Bezalel School, with some surviving until today. In Tel Aviv some of the best-known examples are the following: There are Bezalel-made ceramic street signs surviving in Jerusalem. In 2006,

105-525: A new campus adjacent to the Russian Compound , as part of a municipal plan to revive Jerusalem's downtown. The new campus—officially named the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel campus—opened in 2023. It was designed by Tokyo -based award-winning architectural firm SANAA in collaboration with Israeli firms Nir Kutz Architects and HQ Architects. Bezalel pavilion was a tin-plated wooden structure with

126-688: A population of 90 Jews. Which had increased in the 1931 census to 353 residents, in 30 houses. In 1923 it was split in two, with a group of trial farms eventually becoming a separate moshav, Kerem Ben Shemen . The Ben Shemen Youth Village was established adjacent to the moshav in 1927 and is today a large agricultural boarding school . In 1945, the lands of Ben Shemen amounted to 2,176 dunams , of which 607 dunams were devoted to orchards , 947 dunams to field crops , one dunam for bananas , and 594 dunams were left uncultivated. According to Marom, "Citrus growing remained undeveloped in Ben Shemen, with

147-522: Is Israel 's oldest institution of higher education and is considered the most prestigious art school in the country. It is named for the Biblical figure Bezalel , son of Uri ( Hebrew : בְּצַלְאֵל בֶּן־אוּרִי ), who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle ( Exodus 35:30). The art created by Bezalel's students and professors in the early 1900s is considered

168-459: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ben Shemen The village's name is taken from Isaiah 5:1: Let me sing of my well-beloved, a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. and also reflects the JNF's planting of olive trees in this area. The moshav was founded in 1905 on

189-688: The Nazis . Budko recruited Jakob Steinhardt and Mordecai Ardon to teach at the school, and both succeeded him as directors. In 1958, the first year that the prize was awarded to an organization, Bezalel won the Israel Prize for painting and sculpture. In 1969, Bezalel became a state-supported institution. In 1975 it was recognized by the Council for Higher Education in Israel as an institute of higher education. It relocated to Mount Scopus in 1990. In 2009 Bezalel announced plans to relocate to

210-614: The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design celebrated its 100th anniversary. Faculties include Fine Arts , Architecture , Ceramic Design, Industrial Design , Jewelry , Photography , Visual Communication , Animation , Film , and Art History & Theory . Bezalel offers Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Bachelor of Design (B.Des.) degrees, a Master of Fine Arts in conjunction with Hebrew University , two different Master of Design (M.des) degrees and Theory and Policy of art (M.A.) In 2011,

231-548: The area, converting to Christianity and preserving the family name for generations to come. Others have argued that, despite its rarity, a Christian usage of an Old Testament name doesn't require additional explanation. Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ( Hebrew : בצלאל, אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב ) is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem . Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz , Bezalel

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252-455: The cave wall had a Greek funerary inscription written in red, which according to its style, was probably inscribed during the 2nd or 3rd centuries CE. Di Segni suggested that the appearance of the Hebrew name " Yo'ezer " on the inscription indicates that the area had not been completely cleared of Jews after the Jewish–Roman wars . Jews who did not participate in the revolt may have survived in

273-504: The creation of a Zionist style of art blending classical Jewish / Middle Eastern and European traditions. In 1905, the seventh Zionist Congress passed a resolution supporting the establishment of a Zionist school of art in Palestine . The Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts was officially founded the next year in 1906, with assistance from E.M. Lilien . The school opened in rented premises on Ethiopia Street in Jerusalem . It moved to

294-543: The land of the former Arab estate of Bayt ‘Arīf. It was one of the first villages established on Jewish National Fund land. The first Jewish National Fund forest is also located in Ben Shemen. In 1910 Ben Shemen was the site of the Bezalel Artists' Colony (1910), a predecessor to the Ben Shemen youth village. According to a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities , Ben Shemen had

315-424: The moshav in 1952. Some houses were built by Bezalel Academy of Art and Design founder Boris Schatz . During road-work near Ben Shemen in 1975, a burial cave containing three ossuaries was found. An Aramaic funerary inscription on one of them mentions "Levi son of Menashe" and is dated to the late Second Temple period , probably during the first century BCE or CE. Additionally, a boulder that collapsed from

336-464: The pseudonym Chad Gadya . Bezalel closed in 1929 in the wake of financial difficulties. After Hitler 's rise to power, Bezalel's board of directors asked Josef Budko , who had fled Germany in 1933, to reopen it and serve as its director. The New Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts opened in 1935, attracting many teachers and students from Germany, many of them from the Bauhaus school shut down by

357-448: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shemen . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shemen&oldid=1141069787 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

378-665: The springboard for Israeli visual arts in the 20th century. Bezalel's 460,000 sq ft main campus is located adjacent to the Russian Compound in the city center. The architecture department remains at Bezalel's nearby historic campus. As of 2023, Bezalel offers ten bachelor's departments and five masters programs; it employs more than 500 lecturers and enrolls 2,500 students (2,200 undergraduate; 300 graduate). The school has received numerous honors including 14 Israel Prizes and 3 EMET Prizes . In 1903 Boris Schatz proposed establishing an art school directly to Theodor Herzl , founding father of political Zionism . Schatz envisaged

399-442: The students, who hailed from various countries and had no common language. His wife, Hemda Ben-Yehuda , worked as Boris Schatz's secretary. In addition to traditional sculpture and painting, the school offered workshops that produced decorative art objects in silver, leather, wood, brass, and fabric. Many of the craftsmen were Yemenite Jewish silversmiths who had a long tradition of working in precious metals, as metal smithing

420-506: The youth village specializing in orchards and field crops". During World War II , Ben Shemen was the site of a British search for weapons. Similar searches were a common British response to Jewish opposition to the White Paper of 1939 . In 1947 Ben Shemen had a population of 75. The village experienced extensive damage during the early days of the 1948 Arab–Israeli war and had to be reconstructed. Immigrants from Romania joined

441-477: Was a traditional Jewish occupation in Yemen. Yemenite immigrants were also frequent subjects of Bezalel artists. Many students went on to become well-known artists, among them Meir Gur Aryeh, Ze'ev Raban , Shmuel Ben David , Ya'ackov Ben-Dov , Zeev Ben-Zvi , Jacob Eisenberg , Jacob Pins , Jacob Steinhardt and Hermann Struck . In 1912, Bezalel had one female student, Marousia (Miriam) Nissenholtz, who used

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