Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2022
The City of Nice in the South of France is the site of some of the most important Jewish heritage in Europe. Not only was Nice a refuge for Jews during the Middle Ages (13th, 14th and 15th centuries) when England, France, Spain, Portugal, Provence, parts of the former Savoy and others expelled Jews, but it was also considered the last …
For a long time, the outdoor museum of vestiges on rue de la Prefecture held a stone tablet with letters in the Hebrew language that had remained a mystery to me. I had shown this tablet to many Hebrew speakers in an effort to figure it out and they usually suggested that it was simply a fragment of something much …
Que signifient les inscriptions sur la tablette de pierre entreposée dans le musée à ciel de la rue de la préfecture ? Et d’où viennent ces sphinges ? Robert Levitt a mené l’enquête sur ces vestiges pour le blog du Vieux-Nice. Cela fait de longues années que le petit musée à ciel ouvert rue de la Préfecture compte parmi ses …
On the rue de la Préfecture in Vieux Nice there is a small outdoor museum. There is a stone there with Hebrew letters. I had not been able to figure it out before, but on one of my visits, an Israel photographer suggested he could read the letters in the negative of his photo. Mystery solved: It is a burial …
