Sujet
Boys laying the phylacteries, Jews' Free School, Stepney, London, 1908. Artist: Unknown.
Légende
Boys strapping on phylacteries, Jews' Free School, Stepney, London, 1908. A class of boys wearing caps sit at their desks with phylacteries (a set of small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, which are worn by observant Jews during weekday morning prayers). The Jews' Free School opened as a Talmud Torah at the Great Synagogue in 1732. Originally a charity school for fifteen poor orphan boys it grew to become the largest Jewish School in Britain. Between 1880 and 1890 one third of all Anglo-Jewish children were educated there. The school is now called the JFS Comprehensive.
Date
1908
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives
Notre référence
HRM19B04_428
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
28,3Mo (1006,8Ko) / 29,5cm x 24,0cm / 3486 x 2836 (300dpi)