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The Writing on the Wall: Almstadtstrasse (Formerly Grenadierstrasse 7): Slide Projection of Former Hebrew Bookstore, Berlin (1930)
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In The Writing on the Wall, Attie brought the ghosts of pre-World War II Jewish life in Berlin temporarily to life by projecting black-and-white slides of Jewish schools, bookstores, kosher butchers…

Contributor:

Shimon Attie

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1993

Subjects:

Photography, Conceptualism, Jewish identity, Holocaust, Memory

Categories:

Photography, Historical writing
Photograph of blank city wall with projection of storefront over it and car in foreground.
Tractate: The Onset of the Messiah
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4. [ . . . ] The Gaon of Vilna writes [in his Even Shelemah] that the second chapter of Vayishla? is the chapter of the “footsteps of the Messiah.” When Jacob returned from his…

Contributor:

Elhanan Wasserman

Places:

Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1938

Subjects:

Holocaust, Antisemitism, Violence, Theology, Nazis

Categories:

Theology, Rabbinic commentary