Come & See the Palestine Exhibition, Vienna (XIV Zionist Congress poster)
A trilingual (English, Hebrew, German) poster invites visitors to a Palestine Exhibition held during the XIV Zionist Congress in Vienna, 18 to 31 August 1925. Two men carry an oversized grape cluster on a pole between orange trees, pomegranate and an oil derrick, an image that echoes the scriptural scouts carrying grapes from Canaan (Numbers 13:23) and lends the trade exhibition that older prestige.
- Date
- 1925
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Trade and Industry Department, Palestine Zionist Executive, Jerusalem (for the XIV Zionist Congress, Vienna)
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- British Mandate Palestine
- Leader
- Herbert Samuel
- Audience
- Diaspora or minority
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Economy and finance
- Event
- Xiv Zionist Congress
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Israel Government Press Office, National Photo Collection), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain in the U.S. (published 1925, before 1931); Commons PD-Israel
Poster of the Palestine Zionist Executive, Jerusalem, 1925; scan from the Israel Government Press Office National Photo Collection (D269-047), via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
בקר בתערוכה הארץ־ישראלית COME & SEE THE PALESTINE EXHIBITION TO BE HELD IN VIENNA DURING THE XIV ZIONIST CONGRESS FROM 18 TILL 31 AUGUST 1925 ע"י הקונגרס הציוני XIV 1925 מיום 18 עד 31 אוגוסט בווינה BESUCHE DIE PALAESTINA AUSSTELUNG ANLAESSLICH DES XIV ZIONISTEN KONGRESSES IN WIEN 18-31 AUGUST 1925 ISSUED BY TRADE & INDUSTRY DEPT. PALESTINE ZIONIST EXECUTIVE JERUSALEM גרפיקה ירושלים הוצא ע"י מחלקת מסחר ותעשיה שבהנהלה הציונית בארץ ישראל [purple stamp text, top and bottom edge: Michel Berlin]
Visit the Land-of-Israel (Eretz-Israeli) exhibition COME & SEE THE PALESTINE EXHIBITION TO BE HELD IN VIENNA DURING THE XIV ZIONIST CONGRESS FROM 18 TILL 31 AUGUST 1925 By [or: at] the Zionist Congress XIV, 1925, from 18 to 31 August, in Vienna Visit the Palestine Exhibition on the occasion of the XIV Zionist Congress in Vienna, 18-31 August 1925 [German] ISSUED BY TRADE & INDUSTRY DEPT. PALESTINE ZIONIST EXECUTIVE JERUSALEM Graphica, Jerusalem Issued by the Trade and Industry Department of the Zionist Executive in the Land of Israel [purple stamp: Michel Berlin]
Read from a 960 px thumbnail; Hebrew, English and German blocks are printed side by side and repeat the same information. The abbreviation ע"י in the Hebrew centre block is read as 'by/at'. The German 'AUSSTELUNG' is printed with a single S, as on the poster. The purple stamp is a later collector's mark, not part of the printed design. Translations are literal, machine-made, and not checked by a fluent reader.
