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Bassan is particularly well known for his photographs of the Old Yishuv, the community of Jews established well before the arrival of Zionist pioneers. He was the first Jewish photographer born in…
Louis Stettner took this picture on his way back to the United States, after spending several years in Paris studying photography and exhibiting his work. The man and two children on the deck of a…
Cornell Capa took this picture of boys learning Torah or the Hebrew alphabet at a time when Hasidic survivors of the Holocaust were just beginning to rebuild their communities. Brooklyn, New York was…
A Jewish Wedding
Deep in fields the klezmers can be heard
Driving horses foaming at the mouth,
Relatives, both poor and rich, arrive
To Reb Sane’s daughter’s wedding feast. [ . . . ]
But from a…
Arnon Street is not the largest street in Tel Aviv. On the contrary, it is a small street, nearly an alleyway. There is very little traffic. A double-decker bus does not go through it, or any other…
Pisherl woke up. He was delighted when, on coming into the workroom, he discovered I was there. He ran up and embraced me as if we hadn’t seen each other in years…
The Lion’s Chancellor, the Wolf, was taken to court by all the animals, who complained that no living being was safe from his predatory jaws. “This insatiable creature…
There is a matter well known and widely publicized among all those who have come through the gates of our city, Constantinople [Istanbul], may God preserve it. . . . [I]t occurred about two years…
This silver plate from Padua, Italy, was made for use in the brit milah, the circumcision ritual celebrated when a baby boy is eight days old. In this detailed depiction of the ritual, the baby seems…
Ruthy’s mommy brought a giftWhat fun!A balloon for everyone.For Ruthy—a blue balloon.For Ron—a yellow balloon.For Sigalit—a purple balloon.For Uri—a green balloon.And for Alon—a red balloon.
