Knesset Menorah

Elkan, Benno
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Menorat HaKnesset
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/153439
Date
1950-1956
Description
Detail, figures from Jewish history; Located at the edge of Gan Havradim (Rose Garden) in front of the Knesset. Created by Benno Elkan, a German-born British sculptor, the Parliament of the United Kingdom gave it to Israel in 1956. Built in the shape of the Menorah which appears in the Arch of Titus, it includes reliefs of some 30 important events, idioms, characters and terms from the Jewish history. It is considered a visual "textbook" of Judaism. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 5/3/2013)
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work); monument
Subject
Old Testament and Apocrypha, typography or calligraphy, writing systems, Judaism, Hebrew, Torah, Twentieth century
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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