Photography

An indigenous and Jewish photographer wants to tell her people’s story before it’s too late

Kali Spitzer, whose photography was recently featured in National Geographic, says Judaism influences her work even when it is not the central topic.

By Josefin Dolsten April 4, 2019 1:03 pm

In 1901, These Photos of Yemeni Jews Amazed the Western World

Since the establishment of the State of Israel (69 years ago today!), the vast majority of Yemen’s Jewish population has migrated to the Jewish State. Half a century earlier, a young German Jew named Hermann Burchardt followed his two great passions, photography and ethnography, to Yemen, and documented the community in its native surrounds. As […]

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Holocaust Survivor Portraits and Notes in an Emotional Photo Book

A handsome older gentleman stands softly illuminated by the rain-splattered window behind him, a small, satisfied smile gently curling his lips. The sentence “My name is Izrael Nathan Melamed, not Adam Adams” is scrawled on the facing page, in his early 20th-century European handwriting. A glamorous woman in black with a cocked straw hat crosses […]

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