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The Marriage of Regina
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The whole city was talking about Regina’s wedding. I should tell you first that Regina is one of our former students. People were saying, “Yes, Regina is à la franca” (the expression means “European…

Contributor:

Djamilé Douec

Places:

Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Marriage, Community, Class, Education, Women

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling
Letter to the Alliance Israélite Universelle
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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…

Contributor:

Joseph Nehama

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Philosophy, Community, Jewish identity, Writing, Scholarship

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling, Letters