Lehnert & Landrock: Rudolf Franz Lehnert (Czech) and Ernst Heinrich Landrock (German) had a photographic company based in Tunis; Cairo and Leipzig before World War II. They specialised in somewhat risque Orientalist images of young Arab and Bedouin women; often dancers as well as; apparently; the occasional Rabbi.

The history of the Jews in Tunisia goes back to Roman times. Before 1948; the Jewish population of Tunisia reached a peak of 110;000. From the 1950s; half this number left for Israel and the other half for France. In 2011; 700 Jews were living in Tunis and 1;000 on the island of Djerba.