A New Year's postcard from "Shana-Tova Gaza in the south of Israel", printed in Berlin in 1907 by the publishing house "Jüdischer Verlag",was found in the "Central Zionist Archive" in Jerusalem it was the inspiration for my project "Postcards of Peace".
In the project "Postcards of Peace" I wanted to look at a vision from the distant past and move from it to a future vision relevant to our time. The aspiration to establish a Jewish state out of ideological unity and innocent national pride, which influenced the activities of the "Yudisher Perlag" publishing house, was translated into an innocent longing for peace in the Middle East. "Greeting postcards" were designed as a series of three animated postcards in accordance with the possibilities of distribution in the 21st century, and they can be downloaded and shared on social networks, which are a means of spreading the messages used today.
I chose the postcard because the inscription on it immediately caught my eye - Palestine, Gaza and "Happy New Year" in Hebrew. I came to the sad conclusion that this is something that probably cannot be printed at all today, I thought it appropriate to create something that in my eyes is also far from reality, but I am full of hope that it will come true - peace."
Among the prominent buildings you can find postcards depicting the Temple Mount, Magen Avraham Synagogue in Beirut and the Jordan River. Each postcard has been carefully selected to present the complex history of the place with an ambition to create dialogue and hope for peace.
The project was published on the Hit College website and on the official website of the Central Zionist Archive in Jerusalem