THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
JWB Is Circulating Exhibit
on Jewish Sites in Lebanon
NEW YORK — "Jewish
Sites in Lebanon: Summer,
1982," with photos by Micha
Bar-Am, is a new photog-
raphic exhibition prepared
by Beth Hatefutsot — the
Nahum Goldmann Museum
of the Jewish Diaspora in
Tel Aviv — and soon to be
sent on a tour throughout
North America by the JWB
Lecture Bureau. The ex-
hibition has 70 frames con-
taining 82 photos.
Five places in Lebanon,
Beirut, Bhamdoun, Aley,
Dayr Al-Qamar and Has-
Baya — are the locations of
the Jewish sites photo-
graphed during the war in
the summer of 1982 by Is-
raeli photographer Micha
Bar-Am.
In a letter to JWB, Ronit
Rabinowitz, a spokesperson
for Beth Hatefutsoth,
(pointed out that "Jews have
'been living in Lebanon
since ancient times; they
were mainly farmers. In the
1860s, when Lebanon be-
came a semi-independent
state, there were Jewish
communities in Tripoli, Be-
irut and Sidon, as well as in
rural areas such as Dayr
Al-Qamar and Aley in the
Shouf mountains.
"Most of the Jews in the
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villages left for Beirut
when intercommunal
fighting broke out. The
only remaining Jewish
community in the interior
was Hasbaya, on the
slopes of Mount Leba-
non. At the end of the cen-
tury they left for Eretz Is-
rael."
"As modern Lebanon de-
veloped," Rabinowitz
added, "Jewish newcomers
arrived from Greece, Tur-
key, Iraq and Syria. They
played an important role in
commerce.
"As a result of political
events and nationalist Arab
pressures, however, the
Jewish population dwindled
since the 1960s; the Six-Day
War in 1967 hastened the
emigration. By the summer
of 1982, only a few dozen
Jews remained; some of
them have left since the
fighting ended."
Bar-Am, a Middle East
photographer-correspondent
for the New York Times,
also shot the photographs in
"Jews in Egypt: Spring
1979," another Beth
Hatefutsot exhibit which
the JWB Lecture Bureau is
currently sending on tour of
North America.
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The son of Selim Jamus, head of the remnant
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Magen Avraham Synagogue in this photograph taken
by Micha Bar-Am.
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