ISRAEL POSTAL AUTHORITY in 1973 issued a commemorative series of twelve stamps, one for each of the Chagall Windows, representing the twelves tribes of Israel. The windows adorn the Hadassah‐Hebrew University Medical Center Synagogue at Ein Karem, Jerusalem.
The stamps depict the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Each has a value of 1.00 Israeli Pounds. On the tab is inscribed, in Hebrew and in English, ‘Tribes of Israel’, followed by the name of the tribe, also ‘Chagall Windows – Hadassah, Jerusalem’. Along with these details is a tiny farmhouse in each window that is a Chagall “trademark” recalling Vitebsk in Russia, where the artist was born.
The stamps depict the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Each has a value of 1.00 Israeli Pounds. On the tab is inscribed, in Hebrew and in English, ‘Tribes of Israel’, followed by the name of the tribe, also ‘Chagall Windows – Hadassah, Jerusalem’. Along with these details is a tiny farmhouse in each window that is a Chagall “trademark” recalling Vitebsk in Russia, where the artist was born.
Jacob is said to have had twelve sons by four women, his wives, Leah and Rachel, and his concubines, Bilhah and Zilpah, who were, in order of their birth, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin, all of whom became the heads of their own family groups, hence the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
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