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The Family Moskat
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Five years after the death of his second wife Reb Meshulam Moskat married for a third time. His new wife was a woman in her fifties, from Galicia, in eastern Austria, the widow of a wealthy brewer…

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Date:

1950

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Marriage, Ashkenazi, Cities, Class

Categories:

Literature, Fiction
Sandor Schmidl Mausoleum (Jewish Cemetery, Budapest)
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The elaborate art-nouveau tomb of the wealthy Schmidl family in the Rákoskeresztúr Jewish cemetery in Budapest is made of ceramic tile made by the Zsolnay factory, famous for its art-nouveau ceramics…

Contributor:

Béla Latja, Ödön Lechner

Places:

Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Gravestones, Cities, Jewish identity, Modernity, Class

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
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To My Tunisian Friends
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I have just spent a few days in Tunis. My pleasure increases each time I return to that city and its inhabitants and experience the liveliness of the Avenue Jules-Ferry, and above all, the free and…

Contributor:

Jacques Lazarus

Places:

Algiers, Algeria

Date:

1948

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Mizrahi, Maghrebi, Class, Cities

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
The Coveted City: Salonika
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The city modernizes more and more. One hardly sees those baggy, dark, unsightly breeches of old, the ones that Muslims, Christians, and poor Jews still wore in the middle of the last century. Until…

Contributor:

Joseph Nehama

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Cities, Dress, Jewish identity, Muslim-Jewish relations, Class

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, History, Historical Writing