Daniel's Long Jurney

How many real stories did you ever hear like this?

Daniel Nahoum was born in Milan, Italy, on July 24th, 1925. His father was a successful carpet merchant originally from Izmir, Turkey, who had managed to escape the 1922 massacre there. He emigrated to Italy and married a pretty Italian Jewess from Viareggio, Toscana.
Third of four children, Daniel grew up playing at soldiers behind "mountains" of carpets in his father's luxurious store in downtown Milan. From an early age, he began demonstrating a keen bent towards art and painting.

Later on, the Nahoum store was forced to close, due to the fascist racial laws of 1938. Then came the Second World War, the 1943 armistice and the resultant invasion of Italy by the Germans. Daniel joined his brother Isacco, a senior commander in the Garibaldi brigade on the Alps, to resist Nazi occupation - no more games, he was now a real fighter on real mountains.

After the war he studied at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin and was under the tutelage of the famous Italian painter Felice Casorati.

In 1950 Daniel immigrated to Israel and settled in Kibbutz Ruhama, where he built his family and where he is a member till this day.
Daniel has been an Electrician, a shepherd, a painting and craft teacher, an archaeologist in his spare time. He has developed various activities in Ruhama, always according to the Kibbutz's needs and in line with his multi-faceted talent.
In the beginning of the 60's, Emanuele Luzzati, a renowned Italian painter and ceramist, introduced him to the secrets of producing ceramic art and since then ceramics (mainly large murals) have been his life's vocation and main occupation. Recently he led a geological research team for the Ben Gurion University of the Negev regarding the exploitation of Negev materials for use in the ceramic industry.