Home > Issue 39 > Columns Impressionism Jerusalem Pre-state of Israel Portrait of a People | Painter of Jerusalem ירושלים בשלג. שמן על בד Naomi Samuel Jerusalem in SnowOil on canvas, 192741 x 61 cmPrivate collection Ludwig Blum1891-1974 Impressionism Not yet a Segula subscriber? Access our full archive online, have print issues delivered to your door, and more Subscribe now Already a subscriber? Log in Feel free to share Issue 39 Related Topics Tale of a Trail | Eilat PortSix years before the port of Eilat opened in 1956, a dilapidated ship loaded with Yemenite Jewry’s cultural heritage anchored offshore. What happened to those p...Evasive Action – Building the Second TempleThe Second Temple was begun with a building permit from the Persian empire, but when it was rescinded the exiles found creative ways to continue construction. T...Ruins Revisited | Mizpah (Tell en-Nasbeh)Meeting place from which the biblical Israelites set out for battle Where? On the outskirts of Ramallah, near the Atarot industrial zone and the Arab village o...Head and Tales | Golden NostalgiaHow did a rare gold coin end up in a hiker’s hand in the Western Galilee? Archaeologists have more theories than answers Itamar Atzmon Thirty-nine g...From the Archives | Behind the WheelMuch as Nazi Vienna couldn’t stand it, the gasoline-powered car was invented by a Jewish-born Austrian engineer. Siegfried Marcus has been all but forgotten, ho...