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When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…
Contributor:
Vitaliano Poselli
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1900–1912
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When it was first built, the Sha‘ar Hashamayim (Gate of Heaven) Synagogue was the largest building on the boulevard where it still stands. Built to resemble what was imagined to be the design of the…
Contributor:
Maurice Joseph Cattaui, Maurice Joseph Cattaui
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1905
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El Tiempo (Time) was the first Ladino-language newspaper published in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey) and the longest-running Ladino newspaper in the city, with a run of almost sixty…
Contributor:
David Fresco
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1892
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This Jewish woman of the Ottoman Empire wears a blue jacket worn over a black dress, with red shoes and a tall hat draped in a veil (“Dona Ebrea in casa”).
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Artist Unknown
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17th Century