The Jew's Wailing-Place.
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The Jew's Wailing-Place.
From the album "Selections from Seventeen-Hundred Genuine Photographs Taken Around The Shores Of The Mediterranean Between The Years 1846-52. With, Or Without, Notes, Historical, And Descriptive. By a Wayworn Wanderer."
ca. 1852
Salted paper print
16.3 x 21.8 cm.
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Inscriptions caption sheet-(printed) "The Jew's Wailing-Place." "'Lone Judaea wept
beneath her Palm.'" "-The old Roman emblem of the Hebrew captivity, -
as we find it figured on the monuments of the 'Eternal City:' - and
lo! here she is - weeping still." "It was in the age of Constantine
that the Jews, who had been expelled Jerusalem [sic] by Hadrian, in
punishment of their second revolt, obtained a reluctant permission to
visit the sacred precincts of their ancient Temple, - to wail, on this
same obscure spot, over its ruin, on the anniversaries of its ..."
beneath her Palm.'" "-The old Roman emblem of the Hebrew captivity, -
as we find it figured on the monuments of the 'Eternal City:' - and
lo! here she is - weeping still." "It was in the age of Constantine
that the Jews, who had been expelled Jerusalem [sic] by Hadrian, in
punishment of their second revolt, obtained a reluctant permission to
visit the sacred precincts of their ancient Temple, - to wail, on this
same obscure spot, over its ruin, on the anniversaries of its ..."
