Street Scenes, Tiberias
Street Scenes, Tiberias The modern Tiberias—Tubariyeh—lies toward the north, close upon the water’s edge. N. B. Tristram, in his “Travels in Palestine,” says: “The houses of Tiberias are placed without order or arrangement, as though they had been pitched down from a sand cloud, but for the most part looked clean within.” Upon visiting the Jewish quarter on Friday evening, when the Sabbath had begun, and the synagogue services were going on, he adds: “The houses, with their open doors, looked clean and bright inside for the Sabbath; the people were well dressed in their best—the women somewhat like the Jewesses of Algiers. The men wore shabby broad-brimmed hats, and long silk dressing gowns, with a girdle.” Tiberias is almost exclusively a Jewish town. The streets are lined in some quarters with booths and bazaars, the merchants making a fine display of their bright-colored fabrics and oriental wares. Fruit venders under their canvas canopies, fish and vegetable dealers in th...