Black and white photographic print of a street in Jerusalem. On recto is an image of a man with side curls in Orthodox Jewish attire of black hat, knee length coat and pants, holding a platter. He stands in the far middle ground before a brick wall; in front of him is a rubble strewn street. On the verso are 3 adhered caption labels and stamps from his agency and a previous owner, and inscriptions in graphite and black and blue ink. back, top left, blue ink, handwritten : Sheet 17 back, top right, pencil : T1558 back, lower left, black ink, handwritten : Pal back, lower right, pencil : 9000 / KHA / MM-RL-05
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The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Dr. Mark Reichman.
overall: Height: 9.125 inches (23.178 cm) | Width: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm)
Photographic print by Robert Capa taken 10 minutes after the cease-fire began in June 1948 in the old Orthodox Jewish quarter in Jerusalem. This area was the closest to the front and had experienced the heaviest shelling. It was published as part of a photojournalistic essay: ‘‘A Tale of Two Cities’’, published with text by Irwin Shaw in the London magazine, Illustrated, in July 1948.
Robert Capa photograph of an Orthodox Jewish male in a rubble strewn street