Photography and Jewish History: Five Twentieth-Century Cases by Amos Morris-Reich Dictionaries the interwar period

the interwar period

Gurwitz recalls with wit and insight daily life in European shtetls

has come to Jerusalem to find God but stumbles upon a much different revelation

herb-dominant rice pilafs

Photography and Jewish History: Five Twentieth-Century Cases by Amos Morris-Reich Dictionaries the interwar periodIt is a sign of the accepted evidentiary status of photographs that historians regularly append them to their accounts, Amos Morris Reich observes. Very often, however, these photographs are treated as mere illustrations, simple documentations of the events that transpired. Scholars of photography, on the other hand, tend to prioritize the photographs themselves, relegating the historical contexts to the background. For Morris Reich, however,