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Blogs Categories: Jewish American History

Blogs Categories: Jewish American History

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

A Window on Heritage and Home

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This photograph of a shop window taken in 1942 speaks eloquently to what it means to have pride in both your heritage as well as in the country you’ve chosen as your home. Artifacts of the Jewish faith fill the window, studied carefully by a young girl. (Her gaze appears caught by the book entitled …