Ya'acov Ben-Dov
Ya'ackov Ben-Dov (1882–1968) was the first Israeli film maker.[1]
Ben Dov was born in what is now the Ukraine and attended the Academy of the Arts in Kiev.[2] He came to Israel with the Second Aliyah.
He was a graduate of the Bezalel Academy.[3]
Ben Dov shot some of the earliest footage of an archaeological expedition, the excavation of the Hammat Tiberias Synagogue, in 1920. The footage was used in his film Shivat Zion (Return to Zion).[4]
Films
Commemoration
There was a 1993 film portrait of Ben-Dov, Yaacov Ben Dov: Father of the Hebrew Film.[5]
References
- ^ Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world: toward a new Jewish archaeology, Steven Fine, Cambridge University Press, 2005, Chapter 1, Building an Ancient Synagogue on the Delaware, p. 26.
- ^ http://www.snunit.k12.il/jerusalem-photo/en/MAINBenDov.html
- ^ Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world: toward a new Jewish archaeology, Steven Fine, Cambridge University Press, 2005, Chapter 1, Building an Ancient Synagogue on the Delaware, p. 26.
- ^ Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world: toward a new Jewish archaeology, Steven Fine, Cambridge University Press, 2005, Chapter 1, Building an Ancient Synagogue on the Delaware, pp. 24, 26.
- ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809401013/info