Circular Design (Stars of David and Menorah)

In 1915 Russian-Jewish immigrant Lazar Berson founded 'The Jewish-National Decorative Art Association (London) Ben Ouri', in Whitechapel. In 'the Ben Uri studio' in West London he brought together several Jewish East End artisans who, together with the jeweller Moshe Oved, worked on a series of decorative 'Jewish' designs for wooden plates and bowls. In addition, Berson produced the 'Ben Uri Albom', comprising an introduction in Yiddish and six plates with Jewish motifs including the Shema Israel prayer, menorahs, Stars of David and a monument to Theodor Herzl with an introduction (in English) by writer Israel Zangwill and the Ben Uri regulations (in Yiddish). It was printed in 1916 by the Ukrainian-born Hebraist Israel Narodiczky (1874–1942) to raise funds for the newly-formed Ben Uri.