
Back To School
People of The Book
It’s September and school is back. Few things bond Jewish communities throughout centuries and diasporas more than the bond of learning and commitment to education. Here are some school related images from our collection at the Beit Hatfutsot open databases
1. Pupils in a religious school, Israel, 1950’s

Photo: Leni Sonnenfeld. Beit Hatfutsot, the Oster Visual Documentation Center, the Sonnenfeld collection
2. Jewish School in Nitra. Slovakia 1932
3. Pupils of “Dagan” School. Warsaw, Poland, 1919
4. Purimspiel with school children. Turku, Finland, 1962
5. Hebrew lesson in Benker school, Ethiopia, 1979
6. Eighth-grade Graduates of Alliance school, Tunis Tunisia 1953
7. Class in a Jewish school, USA, 1950s

Photo: Herbert Sonnenfeld. Beit Hatfutsot, the Oster Visual Documentation Center, the Sonnenfeld collection
8. Class photo of Rene’ Cohen (Raphael Cohen’s sister) at the girls’ school elementary school, Meknes, Morocco, January 20, 1948
9. Girls at the English Public School in Shanghai, China 1930s
10. Alliance School in Salonika, c.1912
11. School Photo, Kovno, Lithuania, 1920

Photo: Beit Hatfutsot, the Oster Visual Documentation Center, Courtesy of Mrs. Verblum B.O.D. Cape Town
12. Elementary school-boy, Israel, 1970s