Hebrew translation:
Here is the order on everyone’s lips:
From ten to twenty thousand!
Curator's note: According to Yoram Shamir, Zvi Berger was the block cutter for this poster from the Shamir brothers studio.
Dan, 1) The curator note is correct, but I don't deserve the credit. Bergman's name is printed on the margin of the poster. 2) The subtitle is incorrect .It is not 'multitude", but : From ten thousand to twenty thousand. {During WW2 some 30,000 in Palestine volunteered to the British armed forces. I think that the recruitment reached 10, 000 in 1941 and that should be the year when this poster was designed and printed] Attached: A page from "Book of the Century" by Mordechai Naor. In the upper left corner - a photo of a poster "Get up. Open the next ten thousand". The year is 1941. Yoram
Dan Walsh to Yoram show details 11:57 AM (1 hour ago) Yoram, SO interesting...does this mean that Bergman did technical work for the Shamir brothers? I am guessing that Maxim and Gabriel did the design and Bergman either cut the film or carved woodblocks to do the actual printing. Yes? Bergman has his own Special Collection at the website: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/artist/zvi-berger PS: if you can clear up an issue I have with his name...some translators say "Bergman" others "Berger"...I prefer to use whatever you say is correct. Can you look in this Special Collection and see if I have introduced errors of credit? Thanks. Dan On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Yoram E. Shamir wrote: It has opened. It is the name of the blockmaker: Zvi Bergman Yoram E. Shamir to me show details 12:24 PM (1 hour ago) The exact wording on the margin is Lin. Zvi Bergman. I believe that LIN. is linoleum –wood blocks covered by linoleum. The block maker carved the linoleum. The blockmaker was commissioned by the printer or by the advertising agency. I don't think that the artists ordered the blocks. I'll try to find info on Zvi Bergman. Yoram From: Dan Walsh [mailto:ppparchives@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 6:57 PM To: Yoram E. Shamir Subject: Question about studio practices... - Show quoted text -
From: Dan Walsh [mailto:ppparchives@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 6:38 PM To: Yoram E. Shamir Subject: Yoram, I redid the jpeg over again...it SHOULD open now. Let me know... http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/the-order-on-everyone’s-lips
From: jonathan.rose7@gmail.com Subject: Poster Date: April 15, 2010 3:52:25 PM EDT To: liberation@igc.org
http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/hebrew-in-progress-no-1-3-2010 Here is the order on everyone’s lips: From a multitude to two multitudes.