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D’R We’ll See | Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey

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Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey. Words and images from and about Jewish Africa, by Jono David. Skip to primary content. March 25, 2014. Communaute Israelite de Kinshasa (the Jewish Community of Kinshasa). There are really two distinct halves of the community, particularly in Kinshasa: the Communaute Israelite de Kinshasa, presided over by Aslan Piha, and Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa, directed by Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, who runs Yeshiva Ohel Moshe. The twain are almo...

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Let My People Know | Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey

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Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey. Words and images from and about Jewish Africa, by Jono David. Skip to primary content. Let My People Know. July 28, 2015. OSAKA, Japan — The Book of Genesis and the Book of Exodus are stories from the Old Testament that describe Hebrew servitude in ancient Egypt. That’s an over-simplified summary. But going to Egypt? President of the Egyptian Jewish Community, Magda Haroun (uncredited photo). Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue, Cairo (uncredited photo).

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Kaleidoscopic Morocco | Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey

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Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey. Words and images from and about Jewish Africa, by Jono David. Skip to primary content. March 15, 2015. Purim party, Chabad-Lubavitch of Casablanca. The crash, complete with blown-out driver and backseat windows. But the most common sound I heard in Morocco (besides the muezzin’s tinny loud-speaker calls to prayer from the minarets) was that all of the Jewish activity is in peril. For most of my Moroccan journey, I was removed from community li...

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Ama Juda eAfrika? | Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey

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Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey. Words and images from and about Jewish Africa, by Jono David. Skip to primary content. January 6, 2015. On November 6, 2014, I received a rather unexpected email. A good email. A great email. Our museum is interested in exhibiting your photos at the end of the year 2015, wrote the project manager of the Beit Hatfutsot Museum. In Tel Aviv, Israel. Wow I had to rub the sleep out of my eyes to make sure I had read that correctly. My response was ...

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The Scramble for Africa | Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey

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Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey. Words and images from and about Jewish Africa, by Jono David. Skip to primary content. The Scramble for Africa. October 28, 2014. Osaka, Japan — Between 1881 and 1914, Africa was invaded and occupied, colonized and annexed by European imperialism. This era was called the Scramble for Africa (aka, the Partition of Africa and the Conquest of Africa). The Scramble for Africa. Just how big is Africa? Ok, how about Gabon, then? Complicated, perhaps...

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Marooned in Cameroon | Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey

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Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey. Words and images from and about Jewish Africa, by Jono David. Skip to primary content. March 6, 2014. Beth Yeshourun members photo themselves at the Ambomo home, the community gathering place in Douala. Overnight, he unilaterally decided to visit another town (some five-hours away) with Serge, and he couldn’t care less how I would return to my hotel in Yaounde from the village of Saa (an hour’s drive), where the community is mainly based.

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Jewish Africa Dublin | Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey

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Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey. Words and images from and about Jewish Africa, by Jono David. Skip to primary content. August 7, 2015. Screenshot, Irish Jewish Museum website. I started my talk as I always do — by telling my name. So, I said, a couple of weeks ago I rang up the Dolphins Barn Jewish Cemetery caretaker. I introduced myself, clarified my purpose, confirmed permission, then reiterated my name for good measure. JO-NO DA-VID, I said deliberately. Tipperary, he said.

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Hunger Games | Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey

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Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey. Words and images from and about Jewish Africa, by Jono David. Skip to primary content. March 15, 2014. LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo — Time. Food. We set our clocks by these things. But how we set them is relative. If I’ve learned nothing else in all my time and travels across Africa, it’s that time and associated expressions of time do not have a one-to-one correlation. Clearly, I needed to confirm 11 times. I borrowed someone&#821...

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House of Israel, Ghana: Days 4 and 5 (of 5), A Jewish Epiphany | Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey

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Jewish Africa: A Cultural and Historical Photographic Survey. Words and images from and about Jewish Africa, by Jono David. Skip to primary content. House of Israel, Ghana: Days 4 and 5 (of 5), A Jewish Epiphany. March 3, 2014. NOTE: This post is part four of a four part series on the House of Israel, Ghana. SEFWI WIAWSO, WESTERN REGION, Ghana — Wednesday, February 19: There’s a guy in town who makes challah covers, Alex mentioned the other day to my astonishment. I wanted to meet him. Alex initially tol...