Author: mooncustafer

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Rebecca Hall to make her directorial debut with Passing

Rebecca Hall has set up Passing, an adaptation based on Nella Larsen’s 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel that explores the practice of racial passing, a term used for a person classified as a member of one racial group who seeks to be accepted by a different racial group.  Hall has penned the script and will direct in her feature helming debut, with Tessa Thompson and Oscar nominee Ruth Negga attached to star in the film.

First published in 1929, Passing follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, Clare Kendry (Negga) and Irene Redfield (Thompson), whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.

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Jüdisches Mädchen aus Algier

Hand-colored engraving of a Jewish woman from Algiers. Engraving after Théophile Emmanuel Duverger. From Die Völker des Erdballs nach ihrer Abstammung und Verwandtschaft und ihren Eigenthümlichkeiten in Regierungsform, Religion, Sitte und Tracht by Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus, published Brüssel und Leipzig: Carl Muquardt.

Fromt the William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection – Prints and Photographs held at the College of Charleston Libraries.

Shavuah tov!

Lovely picture, but — are her sleeves somehow knotted to each other behind her back? I can’t quite parse the outfit.