Next to Your House

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Hebrew translation: Grow vegetables next to your house  
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197 Grow Vegetables Next to Your Home, 1952 Posters "Grow Vegetables Next to Your Home", poster published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Development, Publicity and Public Relations Department. [April 1952]. Design: A. Lehman. 68.5X49 cm. $200 נמכר ב-$200

From: jonathan.rose7@gmail.com Subject: poster Date: April 4, 2010 11:11:23 PM EDT To: liberation@igc.org

http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/hebrew-in-progress-gardening They grew vegetables next to your houses. Upper right: A. Lahman Note: Text on very bottom is too small to read.

Bad translation. There are three ways to understand the phrase and this is the least logical. It says "Grow vegetables next to your house," a victory garden sort of thing. The poster probably is from the period of severe austerity in the 50s. Sent from my iPod On Apr 5, 2010, at 1:49 AM, Dan Walsh wrote: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/they-grew-vegetables-next-t... do you agree with the translation? can you read any of the bottom most text? do you read the artists name in the upper right as "A. Lahman"?

From: ezakim@gmail.com Subject: Re: i totally don't get this poster... Date: April 5, 2010 8:37:49 AM EDT To: liberation@igc.org