{"id":107762,"date":"2021-08-16T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/?p=107762"},"modified":"2024-01-25T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T10:39:46","slug":"the-jewish-model-from-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/the-jewish-model-from-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish Model from Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It all started in 1903 when a German photographer named Rudolf Franz Lehnert arrived in Tunisia. Besides being a gifted photographer, Lehnert was also a bit of an adventurer. After crossing the entire continent of Europe on foot, he arrived in Tunisia, where he chanced to meet another European photographer named Ernest Heinrich Landrock. The two became enamored with Tunisia and the charm of North Africa and decided to set up a photography studio together called Lehnert &amp; Landrock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lehnert crisscrossed the deserts, capturing with his camera the landscapes, sights and people, especially the women, of North Africa. The printed photographs in various techniques made their way from North Africa to places around the world. And the world, it seems, fell under the exotic charm of Tunisia. Later, because of World War II, the two moved to Egypt and documented it as well, before eventually returning to their beloved Tunisia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106703\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-106703 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/001-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lehnert (left) and Landrock (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This article focuses on a number of these postcards which have ended up in the collections of the National Library of Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While documenting the sights of Tunisia, Lehnert also encountered local Jews, whose different dress and unusual customs must have fascinated him and his clientele. He immortalized Tunisian Jewry with his camera, particularly the community\u2019s customs and its women. However, a closer look reveals that one endearing Jew starred in many of the photos, becoming a sort of \u201cin-house model\u201d for the studio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a postcard from 1904 featuring the title \u201cRabbi,\u201d we see the man photographed for the first time in the guise of a rabbi carefully studying the page of a book (possibly a Talmud):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106680\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-106680 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454400405171-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454400405171-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454400405171-500-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454400405171-500-389x600.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/sheets\/NNL_Ephemera700345440\/NLI\">Click to view in the National Library catalog<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next year, the studio produced another postcard, also titled \u201cRabbi.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106683\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-106683 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454490405171-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454490405171-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454490405171-500-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454490405171-500-388x600.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/sheets\/NNL_Ephemera700345449\/NLI\">Click to view in the National Library catalog<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here he is again, this time wrapped in a <em>tallit<\/em> and <em>tefillin<\/em> reciting the morning prayers in a postcard labeled \u201cRabbi praying.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106689\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-106689 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454500405171-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454500405171-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454500405171-500-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454500405171-500-386x600.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/he\/sheets\/NNL_Ephemera700345450\/NLI\">Click to view in the National Library catalog<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another postcard from 1905 adds a twist to the plot: the \u201crabbi\u201d has suddenly become a Tunisian moneychanger.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106686\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106686\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454420405171-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454420405171-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/997003454420405171-500-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/he\/sheets\/NNL_Ephemera700345442\/NLI\">Click to view in the National Library catalog<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And here again as the familiar figure of the old rabbi. \u00a0This time he looks straight at the camera.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106692\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106692\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/990036861440205171-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/990036861440205171-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/990036861440205171-500-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/990036861440205171-500-401x600.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/archives\/NNL_ARCHIVE_AL003686144\/NLI\">Click to view in the National Library catalog<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Perhaps our rabbi \/moneychanger is in fact a goldsmith?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106695\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/juif.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/juif.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/juif-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/juif-449x600.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So who is the mysterious Jewish model in all these photographs, whom the two European photographers obviously found so appealing?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After this article was originally published in Hebrew, one of our Facebook followers, Victor Cohen, told us that this mysterious man is none other than Rabbi Yehuda Zeitoun from the city of Monastir in Tunisia. Cohen, a great-grandson of Rabbi Zeitoun, says that among his many occupations, the rabbi was also a goldsmith, merchant, mohel and a reciter of liturgical poetry. If so, it turns out, the various photographs simply document the rabbi\u2019s varied pursuits. Cohen notes that Rabbi Zeitoun\u2019s son, Rabbi Hai ben Yehuda Zeitoun, was the chief rabbi of the city of Sfax and was even awarded a medal for his work from the ruler of Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In any case, the face of this accomplished multi-talented person became a representation of the figure of the North African Jew across large parts of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rabbi, a moneychanger and a goldsmith meet in a German photography studio in the early 20th century. No, this is not the opening line of a joke. 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