20 January
Happy Rebirthday Mr. Director! - My Tribute to David Lynch January 20, 2025 Happy Rebirthday Mr. Director! - My Tribute to David Lynch
January 17, 2025 “Journey” is Looking At Yourself In a Puddle, Not In the Mirror
January 14, 2025 We Have Lost the Chief Rabbi of Turkey, Rabbi Isak Haleva
January 10, 2025 Nino Varon´s Exhibition - "A Life Spent with Art"
January 9, 2025 The “Chest” Witness of Silent Migrations
From the Museum of Turkish Jews: ´Wedding Invitation´
The ´Wedding Invitation´ selected from the Quincentenial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews collection... August 20, 2021
The 'wedding invitation' in the photograph is written in German. It is the wedding ceremony invitation of the couple Clara Miasowski and Fritz Mendelsohn, dated October 14, 1917, that had been realized in the Ashkenazi Schneidertempel Synagogue, located on Felek Street, Karaköy, Istanbul.
This 'wedding invitation' can be seen in the Ethnography section of the Quincentenial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews along with many photographs and documents of old weddings.
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12 December
The Address of the American Rare Book Collection "Library of Congress"
"Ut conclave sine libris ita corpus sine anima. / A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero