A rare photograph from the day of the coronation of Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Chai Uziel to the Rishon Lezion - Photographer: Arushkes . Signed and dated in the photographer's handwriting: "Photographer H. Arushkes , Jerusalem 1939".
In Kislev, 1936, Rabbi Uziel was elected to replace Rabbi Yaakov Meir the Rishon Lezion, who knew that his powers were dwindling and proposed him to the rabbinical throne. In 1939, with the death of Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Uziel was appointed Rishon Lezion. The coronation ceremony took place at the Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai Synagogue in the Old City.
The photographer Zvi Oron [1888-1980]. Born in Bialystok. After experience in photography in Warsaw and later in the United States, Oron purchased photography equipment in Egypt, and in 1919 opened a photography studio in Tel Aviv. He worked mainly as a press photographer [especially published in a photo he took of the writer's body. H. Brenner who was assassinated in 1921]. In 1930 he moved to Jerusalem and opened a studio on Jaffa Street. For years he worked in the service of the British government and the world press. The uniqueness of Oron's photographs is that they present a real, spontaneous and unstaged look at the events of the period, and especially of the years of the British Mandate in the Land of Israel. And he is considered the best of the Palestine photographers of the period. In 1969 his photographs were displayed in an exhibition in Ashdod and in 1973 at the Israel Museum. In 1974 he had an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York.
Size: 24x17.5 cm. Given in original folder with thin paper for keeping. Very good condition.
