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On the sign:
בית זה נבנה ב 1909 ע"י ישעיהו פְּרֶס ז"ל ממיסדי שכונת זכרון משה, ממיסדי הסתדרות המורים בארץ, ממיסדי החברה העברית לחקירת ארץ ישראל ועתיקותיה, מראשוני מסדר "בני ברית" בארץ. מחנך חוקר וסופר מחבר האנציקלופדיה ארץ ישראל ופרסומים רבים בחקר הארץ בכלל וירושלים בפרט.
רעיתו מרים פְּרֶס ז"ל מהסופרות הבודדות בא"י בסוף המאה ה 19 אשר כתבו בעברית.
The sign indicates the house built by the educator and researcher of the Land of Israel Yeshayahu Press (1874-1955), who is best known as the author of a geographic-historical encyclopedia of the Land of Israel, and his wife the writer Miriam Press . The house is on the corner of Sima Blilius Streets and Yeshayahu Press (named after him).
Translation of the text on the sign: This house was built in 1909 By the late Yeshayahu Press from the founders of the Zichron Moshe neighborhood, from the founders of the Teachers’ Union in Israel, from the founders of the Hebrew Society for the Study of the Land of Israel and its Antiquities, from the founders of the "Bnei Brit" order in Israel. Educator, researcher and writer, author of the encyclopedia Eretz Yisrael and many publications on the study of the land in general and Jerusalem in particular.
His wife, the late Miriam Press, was one of the few female writers in Israel at the end of the 19th century who wrote in Hebrew.
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