Menachem Mendel

Early Memories of Jerusalem

For some reading on Yom Yerushalayim, David Cook’s translation of Eliyahu Porush’s EARLY MEMORIES (Zikhronot Rishonim) is a good way to see what life was like in Jerusalem in the first half of the 20th century.

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