Tunisia: 'An Old Rabbi', Tunis, c. 1915. Rudolf Franz Lehnert (1878-1948, Czech) and Ernst Heinrich Landrock (1878-1966, German) had a photographic company based in Tunis, Cairo and Leipzig before World War II. They specialised in somewhat risque Orientalist images of Arab and Bedouin women, often dancers, as well as, apparently, the occasional Rabbi. The history of the Jews in Tunisia goes back to Roman times. Before 1948, the Jewish population of Tunisia reached a peak of 110,000. From the 1950s, half this number left for Israel and the other half for France.

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Photo credit: © Pictures From History / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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