{"id":1118,"date":"2020-09-04T21:48:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T21:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2021-02-14T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T20:13:40","slug":"charlotte-stein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/charlotte-stein\/","title":{"rendered":"About Charlotte and Her Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Stein, 1901\u20131987, proprietor of Charlotte Shop, the first and oldest gift store in Jerusalem<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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A framed photograph of Charlotte Stein in the Charlotte Shop.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Born in Berlin, <\/span>Charlotte Stein studied arts & crafts there. She had emigrated to Jerusalem after what she described as a moment of political insight and because \u201cI didn\u2019t want to make bourgeois things for bourgeois people anymore,\u201d 1<\/a><\/sup>Jerusalem Post Magazine, Friday, November 5, 1971 p.21.<\/span> opening her shop on Storrs Street in 1931. The first and oldest gift shop in Jerusalem sold Charlotte\u2019s own hand painted silk lampshades and catered to British soldiers, eager to send souvenirs home. Charlotte worked closely with the city\u2019s craftsmen, helping them to adjust their work to modern sensibilities and needs, and cultivated merchants from near and far. She said, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing like the fun of never knowing who will come in next and bring you something which you\u2019ve never had in the shop before. You have to swallow hard and not show your enchantment.\u201d2<\/a><\/sup>Jerusalem Post, Thursday, December 31, 1981.<\/span><\/p>\n

The store has weathered over 90 years of social and political storms and today still occupies the same space on Storrs Street, now called Koresh Street. Charlotte\u2019s successor, Noga Eshed, continues to curate a unique collection of art and artifacts: copper craft, Armenian ceramics, Persian fabrics, antique jewelry, Bedouin embroidery, Moroccan and Israeli art.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photograph by Paul Almasy from an article, Transit Pal\u00e4stina,<\/em> in an unidentified German language magazine. The original caption ran: \u201cThe barbed wire on the sidewalk is already a big concession to traffic, since there are whole areas that are completely cordoned off and can only be accessed with special identity cards, which are difficult to obtain. The Jews call these neighborhoods \u2018Bevingrad\u2019 with bitter cynicism, but no wonder, after the experiences with the British.\u201d <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Charlotte Stein was on of Ismar David\u2019s oldest friends in Jerusalem. He designed signage and graphics<\/a> for the store.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Paper bags from Charlotte Shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Stein, 1901\u20131987, proprietor of Charlotte Shop, the first and oldest gift store in Jerusalem Born in Berlin, Charlotte Stein studied arts & crafts there. She had emigrated to Jerusalem after what she described as a moment of political insight and because \u201cI didn\u2019t want to make bourgeois things for bourgeois people anymore,\u201d opening her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}