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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Fifty Two: implying motion by using expressive blur > El Ghriba Synagogue, Jerba, Tunisia, 2008
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14-NOV-2008

El Ghriba Synagogue, Jerba, Tunisia, 2008

In 556 BC, a group of Jewish clerics fled the fall of Jerusalem, and established a synagogue on the Island of Jerba. I made this image of a memorial placque in the synagogue’s sanctuary at one-sixth of second. The resulting blur makes the tablet seem to weep – not just for the dead, but for the persecution that Jerba’s Jewish community faced here over the centuries. There are still 1,000 Jews living on Jerba Island. Muslims, Christians and Jews generally respect each other’s beliefs in Tunisia.

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Tim May30-Nov-2008 23:22
We were told, fairly often, that the fish is a symbol of luck and warding off of evil. But in Christian cultures the fish is a symbol of Christianity. Here your image is emblematic of that interplay of cultures in Tunisia.
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