23 Real photo postcards, depicting Jews from Thessaloniki in traditional dress, and Jewish buildings in Thessaloniki. Early 20th century. Most of the postcards in Jewish publications operated in Thessaloniki. (In Thessaloniki there was a lively movement of distributing Jewish postcards in the early 20th century when about 30 different publishers were engaged in the distribution of Jewish postcards in the city): Among them: Joshua Saul, Pessah & Cohen, And others.
In postcards: Jewish children selling newspapers holding the French-Jewish evening newspaper L' Independant, edited by Avraham Materso and Nafuzi Laser, a Jewish girl in everyday clothes, a mother and daughter in modern clothing alongside traditional clothing, private homes of wealthy Jews, An old Jew beside the building of the Jewish community on which the flag of the Zionist movement hangs alongside the flag of Greece, a Jewish family in traditional clothing, group photographs of Jews in traditional dress, Jewish merchants, Jewish women in traditional dress, and more. There are also three landscape postcards of Jewish centers in the city.
In Saloniki, called by the Jews of Salonika, a large Jewish community existed for hundreds of years. After the expulsion from Spain, tens of thousands of Jews arrived in Salonika and settled there, turning it into the largest and largest Sephardic Jewish center. On Saturdays the city was almost completely occupied, including the port, because of the Jewish majority. At the end of the 18th century, its unique weight made it one of the cities with the largest Jewish community in the world. The city's Jews developed the city in terms of commerce, industry, banking, and the like. Between the 16th and 18th centuries the city became a center of Torah and Jewish culture.
See: The Jews of Thessaloniki through the postcards 1886-1917, 1992, as well as in the book of the renowned collector Gerr Sylvan IMAGE et TRADITIONS JUIVES.
in 12 postcards inscriptions on the back from the beginning of the 20th century. Overall good-very good condition.
