Postcards Tell Tales: A look at the Yishuv through postcards
Thu, Oct 31
|Webinar
Time & Location
Oct 31, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Webinar
About the event
We have previously hosted Dr. Lars Fischer about his book, Jews in Postcards. A wonderful presentation with so much history and visuals. He is now ready to launch his new book, Jewish Palestine, and we invited him to our channel to speak about it and share with us a preview.
Their violent expulsion in late antiquity notwithstanding, Jews have lived in the area the Roman occupiers renamed Palestine continuously for several thousand years. By the 1860s, Jews once again formed more than half of Jerusalem’s population. This earlier Jewish population and their institutions—constantly in need of financial assistance from Jewish communities elsewhere—are generally referred to as the Old Yishuv (a Hebrew word for settlement).
Dr. Fischer has divided the book into thematic sections and segments that focus on individual photographers or postcard producers.
Lars Fischer’s scholarship and publications focus on the history and conceptualization of antisemitism, Jewish/non-Jewish relations, and Frankfurt…