Abby Sewell

A Rabbi in the Attic?

In the late Ottoman era, Jews of the Old Yishuv and newer migrants lived among Arabs of different backgrounds, creeds and dispositions. One of these Jews, Rabbi Wolf Segal, moved to Jerusalem in the last decades of the 19th century. One of his descendants, an American journalist living in Lebanon, discovers and shares a bit about her past — and a time and place in which her ancestors, like those of other people, lived.