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Vintage set of playing cards depicting Jewish women’s folk costumes from around the world. The countries, from left to right, are as follows:

First row: Turkey, Bulgaria, Hodu (India), Yazan (Wiesen; could be Switzerland, Austria, or Bavaria, apparently)

Second row: Hungaria, Holland, Turkmenistan, Israel

Third row: Russia, Serbia (fun fact: for a second I misread it as Siberia), Teiman (Yemen), Italy

Fourth row: Poland, (This one I can’t entirely read, but I think it says Paras, or Persia. Interestingly, it looks more like Uzbek clothing), Kavkaz (the Caucasus), Romania

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Israel (1950) [Source]

Nice to see Asian Jews getting recognition next to European Jews. (The Beta Israel of Ethiopia wouldn’t have been much in the news yet, mind you.)

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As I added last time this came around my dash:

Gorgeous! A few corrections: “Yazan” is Yavan, Hebrew for Greece. “Serbia” is actually Shvedia, Hebrew for Sweden. And the second one on the fourth row is definitely Paras, Persia.