{"id":797,"date":"2020-04-26T18:09:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T18:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/?p=797"},"modified":"2021-01-01T19:55:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T19:55:48","slug":"charming-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/charming-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from Gabi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabriella Rosenthal, 1913\u20131975, Israeli illustrator, cartoonist, author, art teacher, and tour guide.<\/em><\/p>\n

Munich born Gabriella Rosenthal<\/span> emigrated to Palestine in 1935 with her husband at that time, Schalom Ben-Chorin, a distant cousin of Bella Thannhauser Wirz<\/a>. Her humane and witty watercolor and ink work appeared weekly (Fridays) in the Palestine, now Jerusalem, Post under the rubric Palestine People.<\/em> She illustrated several books and a Megillat Esther and has written and published in four languages: English, German, Arabic and Hebrew.<\/p>\n

Gabi posted this card on December 29, 1950, while on vacation in Lugano, Switzerland. The card arrived in Jerusalem on January 24, 1951, nearly a month later. Plus \u00e7a change, plus c’est la m\u00eame chose,<\/em> as they say. <\/p>\n

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\"Postcard<\/a>
Postcard from Gabriella Rosenthal, front.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Postcard<\/a>
Postcard from Gabriella Rosenthal, back.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Master! Do you know what I got from my brother and his sister? A yellow silk paisley scarf!<\/p>\n

So, if I am nice in the future, then it is really thanks to your most special charms. (Minus that I must know perhaps what it costs.)<\/p>\n

Here, even the sausages wear little ballet skirts and silk sashes around their enormous waists. And the sparrows eat only what comes from pure buttercake.<\/p>\n

[The little bird says, \u201cPooh! Blue Band.\u201d (Blue Band was an Israeli margarine brand.)] <\/p>\n

But I’m nevertheless coming back soon to this shitty home and am already looking forward to when the two of us, in yellow silk, will be complaining in Hermon<\/a> [caf\u00e9 in the Rosh Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem] on the Medine [in Israel]. So long, with a nice kiss to the ladies.<\/p>\n

Your Gabi<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The mysterious Gabi would also seem to be the author of this little comic strip.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"Comic<\/a>
Comic strip by Gabriella Rosenthal, front.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Comic<\/a>
Comic strip by Gabriella Rosenthal, back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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From Mother to Daughter\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat one there? My child, don\u2019t let looks fool you\u2014it\u2019s completely dried out\u2014and you won\u2019t know it until it\u2019s too late!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, that one is way too green! Don\u2019t touch it, the woman can\u2019t stand it!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that on the left over there, Mama?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTrust an experienced woman, darling\u2014the one to the right, true, it\u2019s not very big, but weight alone doesn\u2019t do it. If you listen to your mother: that one has what it takes!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gabriella Rosenthal, 1913\u20131975, Israeli illustrator, cartoonist, author, art teacher, and tour guide. Munich born Gabriella Rosenthal emigrated to Palestine in 1935 with her husband at that time, Schalom Ben-Chorin, a distant cousin of Bella Thannhauser Wirz. Her humane and witty watercolor and ink work appeared weekly (Fridays) in the Palestine, now Jerusalem, Post under the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}