Old Portraits of Jews, ca. 1870-1925

[ismnotwasm]

( hope this is ok to post here, some cool photos)


Elderly Jews at the Western, or Wailing, Wall, Jerusalem. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1880



A middle-class Jew from Tangiers in traditional cloak and cummerbund. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1890


Jewish men in Whitechapel, east London, march in protest against the killing of Jews in Poland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 1919


More:

http://www.vintag.es/2013/09/old-photos-of-jews-ca-1870-1925.html

[libodem]

1. Very cool

Thanks for bringing it!

[Frank Jameson]

2. Pictoral history

Very, very nice.

Pictures like these make you feel like you have been there. It's a shame we only have photography for the past 150 or so years.

[Scootaloo]

3. And it's another shame that the form is now dominated by duckfaces and selfies on facebook

I loved my photography class, back when they still had electives in high school

[oberliner]

5. Never heard of either of those terms

Also thought you meant "forum" not ""form".

[Scootaloo]

6. Really?

Great, now I'm imagining you and Shira making this face when you type:

[oberliner]

8. Must be a generational thing

I wonder what this forum would be like if we were all sitting around a table together face to face, as it were.

[King_David]

9. A selfie...

You must of seen those pics taken holding an iPhone in the mirror?

Usually a nice bod or such....( self portrait type thing )

[oberliner]

10. Just didn't know those terms

Aware of the concept.

[Ken Burch]

4. beautiful photos, and thanks for publishing them.

They really don't relate to the Israel/Palestine situation, since they took place before 1948 and since they don't have anything to do with Zionism or Palestinian nationalism(I hope you're not going to argue that the killing of Jews in Poland-an act committed by European Christians-justifies anything in the present situation, since Palestinians bear no responsibiliy for those horrific acts).

But they are a poignant slice of history.

[alfredo]

7. great photos.

[efhmc]

11. Are the women in the street not Jews?

Very interesting and historical pictures. Thanks.