Images
Time table of the Holidays’ prayers
, at the Temple Ismailiah “Sha’ar Hashamayim” Synagogue in Cairo, 1937.
The chic European dress
The chic European dress, but the oriental “Tarboush” too. Circa 1910 (from Elie Patan private collection).
Léon Dichy
Léon Dichy (first on the right) member of the Egyptian Delegation to the United Nations Monetary Conference at Bretton Woods USA, on July 6 1944. (From the book “The Golden Era of the Jews of Egypt” by Levana Zamir)
The Jewish Communal School of ‘Abasseya’
The Jewish Communal School of ‘Abasseya’ – for boys and girls – called also ‘Ecole Sebyl’, at Sebyl el Khazindar Street, Cairo. (1928). As education was always a first priority for the Jews of Egypt, the Jewish Communal schools provided education free of charge for all the necessitous. (From the book “The Golden Era of […]