Letters
By the Rivers of Babylon at The Jewish Museum
from Jennifer Marin
Curator of the Museum
Exhibition on the Jews of Iraq
20 November 2002 - 6 April 2003
I am finalising the picture selections for the above,
and editing material for the accompanying catalogue
publication. Further to our telephone conversation,
I am sending you a list of photographs that we should
like to borrow please, and to assist with checking
the information for a few specific photographs.
We appreciate you granting permission to use quotations
from The Scribe. We intend to use a few short extracts
from Mozelle Sassoon's 1910 diary account (issue 74).
The Scribe is a truly invaluable source of information
and illustrative reference. We are happy to print
in the catalogue full acknowledgement of your website
details as follows:
The Scribe - Journal of Babylonian Jewry, published
by The Exilarch's Foundation, London, on the internet
since issue 70 (October 1998), and back issues (since
1971) available on-line at www.dangoor.com/scribe
Here are the themes for which I am seeking new photos
please:
1. Iraqi Jews in Britain
So far we have shortlisted the photograph of your
family Seder from 1974, and a colour reunion photograph
of Frank Iny School (Scribe issue 73) but would like
to include other recent activities showing the community
in the UK.
2. Sweets and Spices - about food
This has proven rather difficult to illustrate.
We shall be re-printing three or four pages of traditional
Baghdadi recipes at the end of the catalogue, and
wish to illustrate with photographs of dishes, party
scenes, etc. - historical rather than modern.
3. Wedding Customs
e.g. dress, Luzina tray
4. The Sassoon family with Hakham Yosef Haim etc.
We would like a print of this with the identities
of all those shown. I need to get accurate information
on the Great Synagogue and a similar one called the
New Synagogue. Are they the same?
Answer:
The two synagogues look similar but are not the same.
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