Jewish Public Library Archives

CA JPL-A 1397
Fonds
1940-1960

Three files of textual records including newspaper clippings, certificates of achievement, synagogue programs, and biographia, as well as scrapbook pages, two dozen family photographs, and two dozen photographs taken by Gerry Sternberg during Operation Magic Carpet.

Rother, Abraham

Four unidentified women, seated; woman on far right holding a baby

CA JPL-A 1397-3-21
Item
1949-1950

Part of Abraham Rother Fonds

Glued to black construction paper backing.

Group of unidentified Yemenite Jews

CA JPL-A 1397-3-4
Item
1949-1950

Part of Abraham Rother Fonds

Glued to black construction paper backing.

Group of unidentified Yemenite Jews

CA JPL-A 1397-3-28
Item
1949-1950

Part of Abraham Rother Fonds

Glued to black construction paper backing.

Group of unidentified Yemenite Jews seated in airplane

CA JPL-A 1397-3-3
Item
1949-1950

Part of Abraham Rother Fonds

Glued to black construction paper backing.

Operation Magic Carpet Photo Album

CA JPL-A 1397-3
Series
[ca. 1949-1950]

Part of Abraham Rother Fonds

This series consists of portraits of Yemeni Jews photographed during Operation Magic Carpet. Also known as Operation on the Wings of Eagles, this operation saw the large-scale immigration of Yemeni Jews to Israel via American and British transport planes.

These photographs and portraits were taken by Gerry Sternberg ca. 1949-50 and kept in a photo album owned by Abraham Rother.

Sternberg, Gerry

Portrait, unidentified boy