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Item #42295 Vom Bauen und Wohnen im neuen Palestina (Building and Housing in New Palestine). Alexander Levy, Palaestina Baugesellschaft, Text by, Hrs.
Vom Bauen und Wohnen im neuen Palestina (Building and Housing in New Palestine)
Vom Bauen und Wohnen im neuen Palestina (Building and Housing in New Palestine)
Vom Bauen und Wohnen im neuen Palestina (Building and Housing in New Palestine)
Vom Bauen und Wohnen im neuen Palestina (Building and Housing in New Palestine)

Vom Bauen und Wohnen im neuen Palestina (Building and Housing in New Palestine)

Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1920. First edition. Softcover. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 3/4"). 56pp. Original printed wrappers.

Lavishly illustrated throughout with 54 in-text photogravures, architectural drawings and floor plans, Alexander Levy’s "Building and Housing in New Palestine" is the most comprehensive architectural study on inexpensive and rapid building construction in the early days of the Zionist movement.

The author meticulously and methodologically reviews the most advanced European theories and studies relevant to the topic and concludes with concrete and realistic recommendations for implementation.

The plan covers such topics as the role of the company in initiating and executing building construction, the crucial availability of materials, the presentation of different types of accommodations, and the utilization and standardization of materials and labor techniques.

Laid in, 13 typed leaves bearing the heading of the "Bureau de Correspondance Juive Zurich" with the draft of an article titled "Normalisierung und Typisierung - welche Masse? (Grundsätzlicher Vorschlag an die Palästina-Baugesellschaft.)" by Norbert Weldler (1884-1961), the publisher of the "Zürcher Bücherblattes" and head of a Swiss Zionist association. Each leaf has been annotated and/or underlined by Weldler himself.

Moderate creasing along spine. Tail of spine and fore-edge of front cover slightly and partly water-stained. Lower corner of pp. 31-56 water-stained (not affecting lettering). Text in German. Wrappers in overall good, interior in good to very good condition. g to vg. Item #42295

About the author: Architect Alexander Levy (1883-1942) expressed interest in Zionism after finishing his studies in architecture and starting work for a building company in Berlin in 1907. A year later, he offered his services as an architect to Arthur Ruppin (1876-1943), then the director of the Palestine Office of the Zionist Organization in Jaffa. In the Spring of 1919, with the support of the Association of Jewish Architects and Engineers, Levy founded a new organization, the Association of the Builders of the Land of Israel. The goal of the association was to resolve the problems of building and housing in Palestine accompanying the anticipated mass immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel. In May of the same year, the association organized a conference on future building in Palestine, including an exhibition of plans and models of housing solutions. The ideas introduced in the exhibition were published with plans and photos by Alexander Levy in Davis Trietsch's magazine "Volk und Land." Levy's essay in this magazine, titled "Vom Bauen und Wohnen im neuen Palaestina" (Building and Housing in New Palestine) spread over four issues between September and November 1919. Most of the text and portion of the illustrations of the future Levy's book were already published in Trietsch's "Volk und Land." Due to financial problems, Alexander Levy moved back to Berlin in 1927. He left Germany in 1933 after Hitler's rise to power, but was arrested in occupied France in 1942, and deported to Auschwitz were he was murdered soon after his arrival.

Price: $950.00

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