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Children with their nanny
Children with their nanny, in Rass el-Barr (1941). If you returned to Cairo at the end of the summer without a picture with this ‘Lion’, you have not been in Rass el-Barr. (Levana Zamir private collection).
Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue
Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue (Kenisset Ismailiya), at Adly Street, Cairo. A most impressive architecture, designed by the architect Maurice Youssef Cattaoui together with the Austrian Edward Matasek. Initiated and built in 1903-1905 by Mosseri family. Regained its splendor in 1981, after being renovated by Nessim Gaon (Genève), originary from Soudan-Egypt. The only Synagogue today in Cairo […]
Performance at the Opera of Cairo in 1947
Performance at the Opera of Cairo in 1947, of the play Esther from the French author Racine, presented by the young choir of Maestro Albert Hemsi. Art was not only a leisure time, but an important part of the Jewish Community education at school. (From the book “The Golden Era of the Jews of Egypt” […]