A Tombstone of 1917 Beginings 1890-1896 Room II 1891-1896 Thou Shalt be Built 1897-1920 A Living-Room of the 1930's Starting anew... in Hadera 1949-1958 The Shoemaker An Apartment of the 1950's A Tin Shed The Garden Exhibition The Olive - Oil Press The Smithy The Central Synagogue of Hadera A Tombstone of 1917 Beginings 1890-1896 Room II 1891-1896 Thou Shalt be Built 1897-1920 A Living-Room of the 1930's Starting anew... in Hadera 1949-1958 The Shoemaker An Apartment of the 1950's A Tin Shed The Garden Exhibition The Olive - Oil Press The Smithy The Central Synagogue of Hadera
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” Beginnings” : 1890-1896

Room II 1891-1896


This room is dedicated to everyday life in the K'han. A miniature model of the K'han, demonstrates its original 26 rooms, of which only 11 remain today. Opposite, there is a 1:1 model of the living room of a family in 1896. Hadera's founders were well-to-do people in Russia, but on settling in Hadera, the families had to cope with extremely difficult living conditions in the K'han building. Sometimes they were compelled to share one arched room with another family, having very little privacy.




The worst ordeal of all was the malaria. The nearest hospital, run by Dr. Hillel Yaffe, was in the Moshava Zichron Ya'akov. The devoted physician, who was loved by the people of Hadera, would come on a horseback to treat the sick. In winter time, when he was unable to cross the Hadera River, they were treated by a male nurse at the K'han.


In the living- room, a couple is having an argument over their prospects in Hadera.
At the end of the conversation, two shots announcing the arrival of a messenger are heard. He brings cheering news - the philanthropist Baron Edmond de Rothschild has promised to dry up the malarial swamps, and forty building permits were granted by the Turkish authorities. A feeling of relief is expressed by the family.


In the center of the eastern wall are displayed the "Articles of Association" of the Hadera settlement of 1891, written in Hebrew. Since the settlers aspired to create an advanced society , progressive rules, governing moral and social conduct were in included in the document.





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