“The Jew Survives It!” Sigmund Freud Wrote on This Postcard Featuring the Arch of Titus
You are looking at a picture of a postcard with the Arch of Titus that Sigmund Freud sent to his friend Karl Avraham in 1913. He wrote: "The Jew survives it!"
For centuries the Jews refused to pass underneath the detested arch. In 1947, after the UN declared the establishment of a Jewish State in the Land of Israel, Rabbi David Prato of Rome convened the Jews in front of the arch and, as a symbol of freedom, led them through the arch in the opposite direction of what their ancestors walked when they entered Rome as slaves.
Postcard with Freud's handwriting: The Jew Survives It!
US Library of Congress
The Arch of Titus
Photo: Ardon Barhama
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Postcard with the Arch of Titus that Sigmund Freud sent to his friend Karl Avraham in 1913. He wrote: "The Jew survives it!"
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