Large group photograph of the teachers and students of the “Beit Midrash Lemorim” (Teachers’ Seminary) of Mizrachi, taken at the entrance to the institution, Beit Kokia, located off Jaffa Road. Photographer: Tzadok Bassan (signed in the plate). Mounted on the photographer’s original cardboard backing. Jerusalem, 1920s.
“Beit HaMidrash Lemorim Mizrachi” was established in the academic year 1921 as a merger of three teacher training institutions: the “Yeshivat HaMishtalmin” in Jerusalem (founded a year earlier by the Zionist Commission), the “Netzach Yisrael” teachers’ seminary in Petah Tikva, and several training classes initiated by the Mizrachi movement in Jerusalem, which began operating in January 1920 under the leadership of Moshe HaMeiri (Ostrovski. seated in the center of the second row). The institution initially operated out of Beit Kokia, located off Jaffa Road. In October 1927, the cornerstone was laid for a new building on Hillel Street. The seminary later became known as Lifshitz College, named after its first headmaster, Eliezer Meir Lifshitz, who passed away in 1946 (seated in the second row of the photograph presented here).
Size: 43 × 31 cm. Minor edge tears. Good – very good condition.
