JUDAICA COLLECTION

This collection consists of over 10,000 images from 1847-1960. It emphasizes early Palestine, Eastern Europe and the Diaspora, including the United States. Among the rare images in this collection is a daguerreotype of Confederate Surgeon General David Camden DeLeon and unpublished photos of the Holocaust, including views from inside various ghettos.

JUDAICA SECTION


Hassidic Father and Son on Way to Synagogue in Russian Shtetyl 1908





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