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n 1910-1911, Boris Schatz, the founder and director of the Bezalel Arts and Crafts School in Jerusalem, hired many skilled gold- and silversmiths from Yemen, where the Jews excelled at these crafts. The smiths settled in several houses adjoining the Youth Village Ben Shemen near the town of Lud. Schatz named the new settlement Moshava (Colony) Bezalel. The settlers made jewelry which was then sold by the Bezalel School in Jerusalem.
With the outbreak of WWI, the Colony was disbanded. There are only five or six recorded examples of the Lud (Led) postmark in which Bezalel Colony mail was handled.
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Figure 3 |
| November 11, 1911. Postcard addressed from Jerusalem to Ben Zion ben Aharon, Moshava (the Colony) Bezalel, arrived Led on the same day. Postcard must have traveled by the Jerusalem Jaffa train which stopped in Lud. | |
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Figure 4 |
| November 21, 1912. Cover from Lud to Jerusalem, arrival same day. Same Correspondence from the same settler (his personal cachet at top left) addressed to Bezalel in Jerusalem. | |
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