LIFE Magazine photographer Frank Scherschel took a series photographs of Jews in Tunisia. There is no date next to the photos and I couldn’t find for sure when they photos where taken. I have seen some inconclusive dates online and I assume the photos were taken in 1955. I also assume that this is the famous island Djerba. If you have better information please let me know. There are about 70 photographs (more than 100 photos in the LIFE database). I am publishing them in two posts.
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LIFE Magazine photographer Frank Scherschel took a series photographs of Jews in Tunisia. (Part 1 is here.)
As look at these photos I am overwhelmed with the beauty of this tribe. Perhaps it’s an island thing, Djerba being an island. Like Manhattan the confines created a microcosm. By you can see that these people lived intensely relating to others and the power of this community still drives the descendants, decades later in the cosmopolitan Paris or Tel Aviv. This very quality of our existence that we crave so much in the unconnected world.
