Mizrahi models at Bezalel were paid between half and one franc a day.

Evidence

Notices of payment from 1915 to three sitters, Avraham Bakshi, Avraham Temani and Mrs Bahar show that they were paid between half to one franc a day. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 1217

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete wage data connecting to the labor-economics thread; also reflects the exoticization dynamic of using ‘oriental’ Jews as live models.