Vintage Thorens Swiss Hanging Music box Hatikvah Szyk
Item Number: 132
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Description
This music box hangs on the wall and has a Thorens Swiss Movement. Pull the string and it plays "Hatikvah" (The Hope) - Israel's National Anthem.
Glass faced and made of wood, this swiss made music box, featues a lithograph by the famous Jewish Artist Arthure Szyk.
Arthur Szyk, a concentration camp survivor, is regarded as the premier 20th century illuminator. He works in the style of the 16th century miniature painters.
The lithograph that faces this box is named "Israel: A Visual Tour". It is in the exact same dimensions as the original Szyk work.
The lithograph is contains the following historical elements:
Moses
Aaron, the High Priest, brother of Moses
The warrior Hur
The Ten Commandments
King David
King Solomon
The warrior Bar-Kochba, who led the revolt against Rome, ca. 135 C.E.
The prophet Ezekiel, who in Babylonian exile, foretold the return to the Holy Land
The Magen David, the Star of David
An Israeli soldier
An Israeli pioneer and builder, "Chalutz"
The Hebrew prayer, "Shehecheyanu", the prayer for newness and celebration, here a reference by Arthur Szyk to the blessing of the creation of the new State of Israel in 1948. ["Praised be You, God, our God, King of the Universe, who has kept us alive, sustained us, and enabled us to commemorate this time"]
Israel
"The Time of Our Freedom" "If I am not for myself, who will be for me" (a quotation from Hillel the sage)
Special Instructions
This lithograph was originally created and published in 1949, the first year of the Israel's independence. The original work had an image size of 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches -the same size as the facing in the box.
The box measures 8 1/8th by 9 3/4 inches and is 2 1/8 inches thick and comes with a hangar.
This is a beautiful music box and can be a family keepsake.
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