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Eliyahu Brothers Postcards both series Postcards, who published the brothers of Matityahu Eliyahu and Yossef Eliyahu, from the early twenties to 1939.
Series include hundreds of images; Most of the images were views of Israel and some others were the leaders of the Zionist movement and Jewish settlement.
History
Matityahu and Yossef Eliyahu was born in Corfu to Malka and Abraham (Elia), active in the Zionist movement in Corfu. They arrived in 1914 to Ottoman Land of Israel and worked in a printing at Jaffa.
During World War I, in 1917, they were deported from Tel Aviv, with all other people, because being foreign nationals, especially nationals of Greece - State enemy of Turkey, they were persecuted, and had sent with hundreds of Jews in the city of Hamma in Syria, and then to Istanbul.
After the war, they returned to Mandatory Land of Israel and transferring the name to Eliyahu. They set up a stationery store at Jaffa, and another on Nahalat Binyamin Street in Tel Aviv. Later, they moved to Herzl Street.
They were importers of products Parker Pen Company, including ink, fountain pen types, and other accessories, import and trade provided a livelihood; At the same time, opened Publishing House of postcards of the Land of Israel.
The images of the postcards included: Wailing Wall and Rachel's Tomb and the new Zionist settlement such as Petah Tikva and Hadera, such as Degania Kibbutz Ein Harod and cities such as Jerusalem and Haifa. Half of the images were about Tel Aviv; the streets: Herzl, Nordau, Sokolov, Ahad Ha'am, Bialik, Dizengoff, Rothschild, Trumpeldor; Other were about prominent leaders like Chaim Weizmann and Zeev Jabotinsky