We recently published pictures from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Program, including the incredible picture below of Jaffa Gate at Jerusalem’s Old City which we have dated to the mid-1890s. Only in 1898 was the wall near Jaffa Gate breached so that carriages could drive into the city.
We wanted to know more about the store on the left with the sign “A Fast. Restauranteur.” Was this a tourist establishment of Abraham Fast, who in 1907 took over a large hotel several hundred meters to the west of the building pictured above and renamed it “Hotel Fast?”
It was a leading hotel with 100 rooms, built around a court yard with Ionic, Corinthian and Doric columns.
Hotel Fast and its kosher restaurant was a well-known establishment in Jerusalem for decades, and was probably considered by many to be a Jewish-owned establishment because of its Jewish clientele.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The Fasts were German Templers.
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