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A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
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If one looks closely at the passers-by in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto one can see that the overwhelming majority of them are not originally from Warsaw, but are from…

Contributor:

Abraham Lewin

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Jewish identity, Cities, Genocide, Holocaust

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage
Courtyard of Sarajevo Synagogue
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This photograph of a courtyard of the Sarajevo Synagogue is included in Serotta’s 1991 book, Out of the Shadows: A Photographic Portrait of Jewish Life in Central Europe, which collected photographs…

Contributor:

Edward Serotta

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Date:

1988

Subjects:

Photography, Cities, Jewish identity, Jewish quarters, Memory

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Aerial photograph of courtyard with large tree featuring people seated at tables socializing.
Jewish London
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A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…

Contributor:

Simon Gelberg

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1901

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Diaspora, Jewish quarters

Categories:

Literature, Reportage
Among Our Distant Brethren
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(Continued from issue 76 [of Ha-Tsefira])The commandment of hospitality is well-developed in our city, and particularly in the mellah. But emissaries from the kollelim in the “Four Lands” stay with…

Contributor:

Isaac Ibn Ya‘ish

Places:

Essouira, French Protectorate in Morocco (Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco)

Date:

1891

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Education, Jewish identity, Community

Categories:

Literature, Reportage, Journalism