auntada: Moorish Zionist Temple of the Moorish Jews, West 137th Street, Harlem, 1929. Photographed by James Van Der Zee My great-grandmother Mutti was Jewish, I assume by conversion. She lived in New Jersey. I was very young when she passed away, and unfortunately my father’s family was always tight-lipped about their history.

auntada:

Moorish Zionist Temple of the Moorish Jews, West 137th Street, Harlem, 1929.

Photographed by James Van Der Zee

My great-grandmother Mutti was Jewish, I assume by conversion. She lived in New Jersey. I was very young when she passed away, and unfortunately my father’s family was always tight-lipped about their history.