Thursday, May 01, 2014

An ardent admirer of Jewish physiognomy

This guy *really* likes how Chasidim/ traditional east European Jewish men looked.

Adam Neale, writing in 1818, in his Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey.


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2 comments:

  1. yeranenyaakov2:56 PM, May 01, 2014

    He also admired the beauty of Jewish women as "distinguished" on the same page:

    https://archive.org/stream/gri_000033125011160625#page/n179/mode/2up

    (as in Nedarim 66a)

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  2. Dan Klein1:50 PM, May 02, 2014

    "Agraffe" was a new vocabulary word for me. It's a clasp, often richly ornamented.

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