In June 1920, on a hot summer day, Jacques Orenstein, an admirer of Theodor Herzl and a former officer in World War I, disembarked in Jaffa and wrote to his family: "Come, this is paradise." Thus began the story of the three dancers, Margalit and her twin daughters Jehudit and Shoshana, who immigrated from Vienna to the "promised land" in 1921. They established modern dance there. It is also the story of Jacques, one of the first Bauhaus architects in what was then Palestine. He built, among many other structures, the first theater building in Tel Aviv. Free dance, expressive dance, and expressionist dance were flourishing at that time in Germany. Margalit, who came from a well-to-do family—her father Alois Oppenheimer was an optician and a purveyor to the imperial and royal court—was part of this cultural revolution. She had a background in physical culture, architecture, and.