# Moi Ver

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**Moshé Raviv** (Hebrew: משה רביב) known as **Moi Ver**, born **Moses Vorobeichic** (Hebrew: משה וורובייצ'יק; 1904–1995), was an Israeli photographer and painter.

## Biography

Moses Vorobeichic (later Moshe Raviv and Moi Ver) was born in the town of [Lyebyedzyeva](/source/Lyebyedzyeva) (today Belarus) to Shlomo and Shifra. In 1915, the family moved to Vilna where he studied drawing, followed by architecture, photography and painting at Vilnius University. In 1927, he studied at the [Bauhaus](/source/Bauhaus) school in Dessau, Germany, taking courses with [Paul Klee](/source/Paul_Klee), [Wassily Kandinsky](/source/Wassily_Kandinsky), and [Josef Albers](/source/Josef_Albers). After graduation, he enrolled at the Ecole Photo One in Paris. There he published *Moi Ver: Paris*, a collection of [avant-garde](/source/Avant-garde) photomontages. The book was first published in 1931 by Editions Jeanne Walter with an introduction by futurist [Fernand Léger](/source/Fernand_L%C3%A9ger).

In 1932 Raviv was sent by the weekly *[La Vie Parisienne](/source/La_Vie_Parisienne_(magazine))* to [Mandatory Palestine](/source/Mandatory_Palestine) as photo-reporter. In 1934, he made [aliyah](/source/Aliyah), settling in [Tel Aviv](/source/Tel_Aviv). His first wife Rosalia remained in Poland with his daughter, Liliana.[1] After the Israeli War of Independence, he was among the founders of the artists colony in [Safed](/source/Safed), where he lived until his death.[2]

## Art career

In 1928, at the age of 25, Moi Ver documented the Jewish community of [Vilna](/source/Vilna) in a photographic series that was exhibited at the 16th [Zionist Congress](/source/Zionist_Congress) in Zurich the following year. In 1931, the series was published in book form as "The Jewish Street in Vilna." It later appeared in Yiddish, English and German, selling 12,000 copies, with an introduction in Yiddish and Hebrew by [Zalman Shneour](/source/Zalman_Shneour).[1]

Exhibitions of Moi Ver's work were held at the National Gallery of Vilna (2019) and the Pompidou Center in Paris (2023).[1] In 2024, an exhibition entitle "Moï Ver/Moshe Raviv: Modernism in Transition," opened at the [Tel Aviv Museum of Art](/source/Tel_Aviv_Museum_of_Art).[3]

## References

1. ["The Deeply Zionist, Maverick Photographer Who Was Excluded From the Israeli Canon"](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-02-13/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/the-deeply-zionist-maverick-photographer-who-was-excluded-from-the-israeli-canon/00000195-00dd-d069-abdd-c0fdd5640000), *[Haaretz](/source/Haaretz)*

1. [One of the Greatest Photographers to Have Ever Worked in Palestine and Israel](https://www.haaretz.com/life/2024-09-02/ty-article-magazine/.premium/one-of-the-greatest-photographers-to-have-ever-worked-in-palestine-and-israel/00000191-9ec6-d0ae-af93-fedf7ba60000)

1. [One of the Greatest Photographers to Have Ever Worked in Palestine and Israel](https://www.haaretz.com/life/2024-09-02/ty-article-magazine/.premium/one-of-the-greatest-photographers-to-have-ever-worked-in-palestine-and-israel/00000191-9ec6-d0ae-af93-fedf7ba60000)

## External links

- ( 13 February 2024)
- [Special Collection of Posters](https://web.archive.org/web/20160204121446/http://www.palestineposterproject.org/special-collection/moshe-vorobeichic-moi-ver) at the Palestine Poster Project Archives.

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