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Bialik House

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “museum in tel aviv that was built as the home of the hebrew poet hayyim nahman bialik”. Today it says “home of the hebrew national poet hayyim nahman bialik in the center of tel aviv”.
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Bialik House is a museum in Tel Aviv that was built as the home of the Hebrew poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik . The museum is at 22 Bialik Street, Tel Aviv. The house was built in 1925 by Joseph Minor, an architect who had studied under Alexander Baerwald . The two were among a group of architects attempting to develop a "Hebrew style" of architecture, by combining western building forms with stylistic elements characteristic of the Middle East or thought or known to have been in use in the ancient Jewish kingdoms of Eretz Israel. While the interior is in the Arts and Crafts movement style, then popular in northern Europe, orientalizing features include a tower, outdoor terraces, domes, pointed-arch windows and extensive tile work. The most notable tiles are in the first floor reception room. Here, the entryway features a columned archway featuring the tiles produced by the Bezalel school featuring the designs of Ze'ev Raban produced as ceramic art tiles. One of the columns has tile cartouches of the twelve months, the other, the twelve tribes of Israel. On the sides are a pair of cartouches, one, the famous "Judea capta" coin issued by the Emperor Titus after the Roman defeat of the Jewish Revolt of the year 70. The well-known coin shows a woman, Judea, sitting under a palm tree in chains, over her stands the Roman Emperor in armor. The artist riffs on this familiar image with a scene featuring Judea liberated, rising as the chains break.(Chaim Nachman Bialik Home, in Batia Carmiel, Tiles Adorned City; Bezalel ceramics on Tel Aviv Houses, 1923-1929), Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, copyright 1996, book in Hebrew and some English with illustrations) 32°04′22″N 34°46′16″E  /  32.072888°N 34.771007°E  / 32.072888; 34.7710071

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “museum in tel aviv that was built as the home of the hebrew poet hayyim nahman bialik”. Today it says “home of the hebrew national poet hayyim nahman bialik in the center of tel aviv”. Read the current article and compare.
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museum in tel aviv that was built as the home of the hebrew poet hayyim nahman bialik

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home of the hebrew national poet hayyim nahman bialik in the center of tel aviv

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