Wednesday, November 19, 2008


Jewish history in Jerusalem in pictures

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Found this terrific old photo of Jews praying at the Western Wall (Wailing Wall) in Jerusalem (dated at 1896) in the LIFE archives.

And searching further I also found these interesting pictures:


"Arabs Sack The Holy City. Terrified young Jewish girl Rachel Levy, 7, fleeing fr. street w. burning bldgs. as the Arabs sack the Holy City after its surrender during Palestinian Civil war." - Israel, May 28, 1948


"Jewish families waiting outside their homes to be evacuated by Arab troops." - Jerusalem, June 1948.

























"Rubble lying in the streets after Arab looting of Jewish homes." - Jerusalem, June 1948

You might wonder why they had to leave their homes in (East) Jerusalem in the first place and why their houses got looted and this part of the city sacked and why these pictures are not spread all over the world....
Soooo, for the sake of neutrality, I'll publish them :)

(note the caption stating Palestinain Civil War)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great pictures. Thanks.
Interesting that men and women prayed together - unless the picture was posed. (The woman on the right is beautiful: I'm sure I'd've been distracted by her!)

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