41 postcards depicting views of Palestine. Jerusalem: Jamal Brothers, 1921.
29 of the postcards mention the photographer – "Published by S. Narinsky" (Hebrew) and 12 postcards (presumably from the same series) are without the photographer's name. Postcards include: "A Yemenite Jew chief in Jerusalem Examining his great-grandson", "A modern colony in Jaffa", "The mountains of Gilead behind the River Jordan", "A side view of Tiberias", "Between the orange gardens", "Threshing in Palestine", "The flourishing colony of Khideira near Haifa" and more.
Most of the postcards are captioned on verso in English, Hebrew and Arabic. A few are captioned only in English and Arabic. Many of the postcards appear in two copies – one in sepia and the other in blue monochrome.
Shlomo Narinsky (1885-1960), born in Russia, studied photography in Berlin. In 1905 he immigrated to Palestine and settled in Jerusalem. He worked as a photographer and opened a studio in Jerusalem. This pictorial series of postcards was published by Jamal Brothers when Narinsky was in exile in Egypt, to where he was deported during World War I due to his foreign nationality.
9X13.5 cm. Good condition. A few stains. A tear to one postcard.