Images
General Mohammad Naguib
General Mohammad Naguib, Head of the Republic of Egypt, visiting Shaar Ha-shamayim Synagogue on Yom Kippur – Cairo, 1952. (From the book “The Golden Era of the Jews of Egypt” by Levana Zamir)
Nessim Bekhor Cohen-Sabban
Nessim Bekhor Cohen-Sabban (Cairo 1885), who was – together with Madame Courteille – the founder of Rass-el-Barr, the fanciest festival sea-resort for the high middle-class Cairene Jews. (Levana Zamir private collection)
Inauguration of the Cairo branch of the L’Union Juive Universelle de la Jeunesse Juive
Inauguration of the Cairo branch of the L’Union Juive Universelle de la Jeunesse Juive, headed by Albert Mosseri – Cairo, May 1930. In the first row from left: Nessim Mosseri Bey, M. Berman – President of the Ashkenazi Council in Cairo, Hadaya Pasha – Governor of Cairo, Chief Rabbi Haim Nahum Effendi, E. Labbe – […]
A Simhat-Torah Hiloula
(Sefarim Procession) at Zaradel Synagogue, in the Jewish quarter in Alexandria – 1945. (From the book “The Golden Era of the Jews of Egypt” – by Levana Zamir)