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Jan 4Liked by צמח

Very interesting Thank you! I never understood how someone who considers himself a chossid would censor pictures of „his rebbe/ rebbe‘s familiy“. Where is the kovod they claim to have. Tznius is a social boundry it has little to do with Halacha. Covering your hair after marriage was a widespread custom among russian peasant class. And probably dropped as people entered higher social classes and cities, naturally jews did too. Litvishe and so on barely practiced it. Among Sfardim head covering had little to do with marriage young girls would cover their hair too. With french colonialism it was dropped as fashion changed. Modern obsession with modesty and sheitelach is very strange, only explanation is sociological. I often wonder what Rebbetzin Mussia held of everything that happened around her. She seemed very humiliated in the court interview.

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Jan 4·edited Jan 4Author

Sephardim as a homage to their Muslim hosts.

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Most of them still know it. Our old neighbour, she was jewish from baku, would wear „kasynochka“ when going to the turkish market to fit in i think or get petter deals i‘m not sure (funny that this is almost literally what S“A says).

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In the old world of printing photos, they would write for the printer what size they should make the picture. I.e. 120% of the original. That photo was used in the Algemeiner and it is instructions for the printer.

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What are you referring to specifically?

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To what you wrote:

"I don't understand why it says on the front Dec. 1928 in blue ink, the same ink as 120% or 150% on the back"

I.e. both most probably are from the Algemeiner

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Sep 19·edited Sep 19Author

These pictures came to action, probably, from the Rivkin family. Algemeiner have nothing to do with it. They may be had some copies and worked on Musya's décolleté. Do you even know what décolleté is?

In any case, no way Algemeiner will write something on the original.

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There was a member of the Rivkin family who lived next door to Jacobson, editor of the Algemeiner.. I imagine that they gave him the photo... I do not see how they would have gotten that photo and others for the newspaper.

It was normal to write on original photographs.. I have seen hundreds of such photos from the Algemeiner and other newspapers...

That the Algemeiner doctored the photo is very clear..

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Yes, Jacobashvili and Rivkin lived on the same block on Eastern parkway. Still, shocking if Algemeiner wrote on the original photos. I knew they were bad, but that bad?

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