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Lot Essay
Yehuda Goor (Grosovski) immigrated to Palestine from Belorussia in 1887 and became a well-known educator and lexicographer. He founded the first Hebrew Teachers' Association in the Yishuv and helped to pioneer a new method of teaching Hebrew with no recourse to another language. He translated into Hebrew a number of children's classics. He is perhaps best known for his Dictionary of the Hebrew Language and his Lexicon of Foreign Words.
Rubin enjoyed a wide circle of friends and neighbours, whom he painted throughout his career. However his most significant portraits date from the 1920s. "They not only portray the likeness of key personalities of the intellectual, political and artistic circles of the Yishuv; but also are symbolic of the burgeoning community and active cultural life of that period". (C. Rubin, Rubin Portrays his Friends, Tel Aviv, 1986).
Yehuda Goor is painted in an expressionist manner. The educator is seated in an armchair, formally dressed with a flower in his lapel. The chair is flanked by a small pedestal table, holding a vase of multi-coloured flowers. The ambiance conveys the solidity and prosperity of the re-born state.
Rubin enjoyed a wide circle of friends and neighbours, whom he painted throughout his career. However his most significant portraits date from the 1920s. "They not only portray the likeness of key personalities of the intellectual, political and artistic circles of the Yishuv; but also are symbolic of the burgeoning community and active cultural life of that period". (C. Rubin, Rubin Portrays his Friends, Tel Aviv, 1986).
Yehuda Goor is painted in an expressionist manner. The educator is seated in an armchair, formally dressed with a flower in his lapel. The chair is flanked by a small pedestal table, holding a vase of multi-coloured flowers. The ambiance conveys the solidity and prosperity of the re-born state.