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Friday, December 4, 2015

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta) 130-Year-Old Testimony of Jewish Life in Shiloah (Silwan), Jerusalem

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

130-Year-Old Testimony of Jewish Life in Shiloah (Silwan), Jerusalem

Posted: 03 Dec 2015

An annotated picture found in the British Library's Endangered Archives collection

Annotated picture of Shiloah (Silwan) from the Bonfil albums digitized by the British Library (circa 1890s)

The Shiloah (Silwan) village south of Jerusalem's Old City dates back to Biblical times. Water from its spring was used in the Jewish Temples. Jewish royalty was buried in its caves with Hebrew inscriptions naming the deceased. Over the centuries the hill was inhabited by Christian monks and Arab families.

Below is one of the first photographs taken in Palestine in 1844 showing Silwan's small size. It was taken by Girault de Prangey, a student of the inventor of photography, Louis Daguerre. View more of de Prangey's photographs here. Many of his photographs are now online at the French National Library.

The village of Shiloah (Silwan) in 1844 and the Kidron Valley (Smithsonian Magazine)

The 3,000 Maison Bonfils photographs from the Fouad Debbas Collection in Beirut digitized by the British Library have the barest of captions -- with the exception of one album with lengthy English annotations. The first photograph above provides an example. It describes the Yemenite Jewish community that moved into the Shiloah village in the 1880s. Below is the handwritten caption.

The caption on the photograph reads, "The village of Siloam on the east bank of the Kidron Valley. The Pool of Siloam is opposite to the village on the west bank. The inhabitants are Mohammedans except at the extreme south (right hand of picture) where the Yemenite Jews live in a small colony of tiny stone buildings as shown in a long low patch of white."

On the right side of the picture, adjacent to the Jewish housing, the album owner wrote, "The Yemenite Colony."

Photographers of the 19th century focused their lenses on the Yemenite residents, especially the photographers from the American Colony where the Yemenites' arrival in 1882 was viewed as the "Gaddites" returning home and as a messianic harbinger.

We had the privilege of providing an essential detail to the Library of Congress' picture in its archives of the "village of Siloah" (circa 1901). The man, we explained after consultation with Yemenite historians, is a Yemenite Jew, originally from Habani in Yemen.

He was probably among the residents of Shiloah.

The American Colony photographers took scores of pictures of Yemenite Jews and helped provide food and shelter to the poor immigrants.

Poor Yemenite Jewish family (circa 1890s). An American
Colony caption read "Group of Yemenite Jews"

"A scene in a Jewish Yemenite Quarter," according to the Library of
Congress caption. The picture, possibly shot in Shiloah, was taken in
the 1930s when the Jews of Silwan (Shiloah) were suffering
from attacks from their Arab neighbors. They eventually fled
their homes. Today, Jewish families have returned to Shiloah.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Jerusalem Old City streets at night - video and photos.

Golden Menorah near Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem

Lion statue near Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem

As part of our Love For His People "Ahava Adventrures" trip, my son Ben and I walked to the Western Wall on a Monday night on Nov. 4, 2013.You will see the Golden Menorah too, just before we reach the Western Wall final steps and look out. Beautiful night! And safe!

Come along, as we head to the Kotel (Western Wall) and I record along the way. Then you can say you too walked the streets in the Old City of Jerusalem (until you actually do with us next year I hope!)

Photos and video filmed and shared by Steve Martin - to give appreciation to and love for those we support, through Love For His People, Inc. Nov. 2013

Western Wall (The Kotel) plaza

Monday, May 19, 2014

Jewish Life Cycle-- The "Black Wedding" in the Mt. of Olives Cemetery

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

Chapter: Jewish Life Cycle-- The "Black Wedding" in the Mt. of Olives Cemetery

Posted: 18 May 2014

Mt. of Olives Cemetery 110 years ago. Not a funeral, but a picture of a wedding! (Library of Congress, 1903) The LoC caption reads: Jewish gathering at Tomb of Zacharieh, Kidron Valley

In 2011, we matched up two photos in the vast Library of Congress archives of 22,000 vintage pictures from American Colony collection. The pictures showed crowds of Jews walking between Jerusalem's Old City and the ancient Mt. of Olives cemetery, presumably for a funeral.

(The Library of Congress captions now read: May be related to LC-M32-A-346 which has 4343 on negative. (Source: L. Ben-David, Israel's History - A Picture a Day website, August 19, 2011)

Now it's time to match a third photo to the group. Thanks to a new exhibit at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem, we can assume that all three pictures show the crowds attending a "Shvartze Hasuna," a "Black Wedding" in the cemetery.

Indeed, upon enlargement, the two other pictures show many women and kids, an apparent anomaly for an ultra-Orthodox funeral 110 years ago.

Jewish funeral procession to Mt. of Olives.

Absalom's Pillar is in the center

Jewish procession from Jerusalem's Old City to

Absalom's Pillar on Mt. of Olives.

See enlargements below

The Tower of David Museum exhibit on medical history in Jerusalem shows the picture at the top of this post. A museum guide told Ha'aretz' Ilene Prusher, “The Ashkenazi belief at the time was that if you marry two orphans you can stop the epidemic [cholera] or prevent the next one.” As a result of such a good community deed, it was believed, the souls of the deceased would intercede with God to stop the epidemic.

Upon enlarging the Library of Congress picture, a black marriage canopy - a chuppa -- is apparent.

The dark chuppa in the Mt. of Olives cemetery held aloft with four poles

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research reports "Shvartze Chanesas" took place in the eastern European towns of Opatow (Apt) and Chelm. Another account by Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe tells of such weddings in the towns of Pinsk and Ropshitz.

View a painting and recollections of a Black Wedding by Meyer Kirshenblatt here.