But the stereograph of this Old City money changer is unique. The sign above the door is in Hebrew/Yiddish and presumably gives the names of the proprietors. But in clearer print are the words בהכשר הרב קוק -- "with the [kosher] approval of Rabbi Kook."
The sign helps us date the picture. Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook arrived in the Holy Land in 1904, so the picture was taken after his arrival and prior to his 1914 departure. During World War I he was in exile in England and Switzerland and returned after the war.
