Our Images, Our Selves
“Public image laws” in the U.S. belie an image-obsessed cultural sensibility.
Tag: twentieth century
Dear Rebecca …
A Turkish Jew interned at Drancy writes home. The camp in Drancy, circa 1941. Creative Commons image from the Bundesarchiv of Germany via Wikimedia Commons. The following is a letter from Yaco Soulam, detained in Drancy, to his wife, Rebecca in Paris. The letter was …
A Russian Jewish Woman in New York Seeks Dating Advice (… in 1916)
The question of the hour: can a Sephardi-Ashkenazi romance survive? The following letters originally appeared in a Ladino newspaper, La Bos del Pueblo. They were translated into English by Aviva Ben-Ur and are excerpted below from Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History 1700-1950: In early-twentieth-century New York City, …
