AMAZING BEIRUT SYNAGOGUE LARGE PHOTO by JULES LIND 20's

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AMAZING BEIRUT SYNAGOGUE LARGE PHOTO by JULES LIND 20's

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Sold Date: 04/19/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Fraternal, Political, Organizations

AMAZING BEIRUT SYNAGOGUE BIG PHOTO by JULES LIND 20's

Amazing large dimensions photo (8.5" x 11.4") of the synagogue "Magen-Abraham" interior in BEIRUT Lebanon, 20'-30's. On the photo, Rabbis and prayers, Jewish women and men. May be the photo is from the opening of the Synagogue.
JULES LIND was the photographer, well known European resident that had founded the earliest photographic studios in the region.
THE PHOTO IS IN A VERY GOOD CONDITION, fixed on a cardboard, please see scan.

Please look on the colored photo to see the Synagogue as it looks today, the photo comes from the website: /me/?page_id=22&picture_id=37
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"The synagogue "Magen-Abraham", the Jewish prayer house in Beirut, was the main and central religious-spiritual institute in the Jewish community. It was founded in 1925 and was called after Abraham Sason by his son, who donated the money for the building. The money was not enough in order to complete the synagogue and the head of the community, Josef David Farhi, helped to complete its interior. The synagogue considered as one of the most fancy synagogues in the whole east. Its activity attracted many people for praying. A youth choir was founded, and on Saturdays t were hundreds of people coming to hear the choir singing. The synagogue was used for 'Torah' (bible) and scientific lectures, weddings and other festive events. Twice a year, in Passover and 'sukkot' (Jewish holidays), the heads of the religious communities in Lebanon were invited to join the ceremony. This custom helped to develop warm relationship between the religious groups. During the 40's, the synagogue was used as a center for underground zionist activities. Many of the illegal people who arrived to Beirut on their way to Israel were put temporarily in the building. Youth and little children were located in the synagogue before taken to Israel. In times of danger to the community, t were self-defense courses that were taken in the synagogue very late at night."
In 1976, a year after the civil war began, Joseph Farhi transferred the Torah scrolls from the synagogue to Geneva and entrusted to renowned Jewish-Lebanese banker Edmond Safra, who preserved them in his bank's coffers. Most of them have since been relocated to Sephardic synagogues in Israel.
The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 sparked backlashes against Lebanese Jews. While the State of Israel offered citizenship, often declined, Lebanese Jews were frequent targets to Islamic militant groups since 1984. Synagogues were often attacked, and eleven Jewish community leaders were kidnapped and executed. In 1991, due to mass emigration of Lebanese Jews into foreign countries, only two Jews remained in Wadi Abu Jimail Street, and with a population of around sixty, the community more or less ceased to exist.
It was decided, by the late former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, that the synagogue would be restored and surrounded by a garden, however the restoration never took place. The neighboring Talmudic school was demolished so that other new buildings would keep the view of the beach nearby.
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