Posts tagged with Sephardim in Blog Beyond the Reading Room

Newly cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: a postcard depicting a group of men in front of a narrow two-store building in Salonica (Thessaloniki), circa 1917. On the ground floor of the building was the Electrically Powered Bakery while the first floor housed the kosher restaurant of Varsano and Mosse.

Newly cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Salonique, type de vieux juif – a historical postcard depicting an old Jewish man in traditional dress standing in the middle of a street in Salonica, the famous Balkan port-city located on the shore of the Aegen Sea. Some evidence from the picture allows us to established that it was taken between 1912-1917.

From the Jewish Heritage Collection: a trilingual postcard depicting Jacob Meir, Chief Rabbi of Salonica.

Newly acquired and cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.

Newly catalogued for the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Two centuries meeting – the mother and daughter, circa 1917.

A newly acquired and cataloged item for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.

A historical postcard depicting the Jewish cemetery of Salonica, Greece --- newly cataloged for the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.

A new item added to the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Le Quartier israëlite détruit.

A new item added to the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: The Italian Synagogue.

A new item added to the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.