More memories from a historic day. Thank you once again to everyone who helped make this dream a reality! The legacy of Little Syria, its people, and its poets will live on through this beautiful installation.
Photo credit 📸
@medialeelah
Today is a special day: my late sister Meg's birthday, the end of Ramadan, and the Iranian New Year. This is Meg peeking into the crib to look at me, her new baby sister, in 1947.
My father, Joseph J. Jacobs was born on this day in 1916.
On June 12, 1942, he received his PhD; on June 13, he turned 36, and on June 14, he married my mother.
New York's Tenement Museum invited me to write about New York's Syrian Quarter on their blog: /blog/new-yorks-best-kept-secret-manhattans-syrian-quarter/
Please read and comment!
In honor of International Women's Day, this is my mother, Violet Jabara and her sister Gladys (left) on holiday at Jug End Barn in South Egremont, MA in 1934
As Christmas is coming, I post this photo of my mother, Violet Jabara and her father Fayad (F.M.) Jabara at their home in Brooklyn in 1935. The Christmas tree is awash with tinsel.
