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August 20, 2019

Rare Color Footage Shows Jerusalem in the 1930s

The Old City, Hebrew University, and the Western Wall.

In the 1930s, a Jewish family visited Jerusalem and filmed what they saw, in color, with a 16mm camera. Isaac Tessler reports that, as part of a larger project, the amateur movie has been restored and made publicly available. (A 5-minute video and pictures can be found at the link below.)

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