Inside a Jewish household
La Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia
Institut Supérieur d’Histoire Contemporaine de la Tunisie
19th century
Paper
This copy of a beautiful watercolour by Charles Lallemand shows the inside of a bourgeois Jewish household. This snapshot of daily life reveals a great deal of similarity between Jewish and Muslim traditional dress and interiors.
Tunis au XIXe Siècle: Aquarelles et Textes de Charles Lallemand, Apollonia, 2001.
Saloua Khadhar Zangar "Inside a Jewish household" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tn;95;en
Prepared by: Saloua Khadhar Zangar
Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin
MWNF Working Number: TN 101
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