Old Portraits of Jews, ca. 1870-1925

[ismnotwasm]

Very cool pictures and visual history



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

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

[hrmjustin]

1. Great Pics. I love old photos.

[ismnotwasm]

2. I love history

Looking at these makes me realize how much I don't know.

My husband has Jewish ancestry that's lost in time. Part of his family denied being Jewish, his father was in his 50's before he started having kids and died when hubby was 14--he was also a veteran of WW2. He spoke German and English, but from what I can tell through cursory research, his family was a group of German Jews that immigrated to Russia before coming to the US. But it seems as though all records are lost, and the elders who might have said, have passed on