Portrait of Jud Süss

Photograph of room with arched stone doorways and central wooden platform.

Velika Avlija (Old Synagogue), Sarajevo

The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…

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Photograph featuring lawn and awning over windows of house transposed over ocean; photograph of family with palm trees in background.

Florida Family Portrait

For her book Florida Family Portrait, Gelles photographed her family in the same pose over twenty years during trips to visit her parents in Florida. A comment on family, growth, aging, death, and the…

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Manuscript page with two columns of writing in Yiddish and Hebrew and a decorated border.

Title Page of the Register of a Jewish Midwife

This detailed bilingual Hebrew-Yiddish register kept by Roza, a Jewish midwife in the Jewish community of the Dutch city of Groningen in the years from 1794 to 1832, provides basic information about…

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