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Collection:  Jewish Holidays

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Frame 47783: Click for full display
Date: 1920s-30s
Location: Lithuania
Photog: Blue-White Service 
Description:
On a river bank "in a small town" (English caption) women bend over prayerbooks during 'tashlekh' (a rite performed on Rosh Hashana, in which people gather at a stream and shake out their pockets as a symbol of washing away sin).
 
Date: 1920s-30s
Location: Lagow
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Frame 30860: Click for full display
Description:
Rosh Hashana greeting card: the committee of the Gmiles Khesed (free loan) society. (1-7) A. Feferman, N. Lerner, L. Shniper, N. Bakh, L. Treyster, R. Finkelshteyn, S. Apfelbaum. (Yiddish sign) "Support our Gmiles Khesed with pledges and donations!"
 
Frame 29355: Click for full display
Date: pub. Oct. 13, 1929
Location: Warsaw
Photog: Kacyzne, Alter 
Description:
"For the souls of those who are no longer among us. Reb Khaim Yekhiel, an 80-year-old 'shames' [sexton] of a Warsaw synagogue lighting candles [for the souls of the dead] on the day of Yom Kippur Eve." ('Jewish Daily Forward' caption in Yiddish.)
 
Date: September 1930
Location: Kalisch
Photog: Engel Photo 
Frame 41766: Click for full display
Description:
"`May it be no worse than this all year!' Jewish fish peddlers making a little money before Yom Kippur. (This picture was taken last year.)" "An old Jewish custom -- Jewish women buying fish for the holiday." (From "Forward" New Year's spread, 1931.)
 
Frame 42178: Click for full display
Date: pub. Sept. 16, 1923
Location: Kobrin
Photog:  
Description:
("Jewish Daily Forward" Yiddish caption) "On the holy days, in the holy place. Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur many Jewish women visit the cemetery. [Here] an old Jewish woman...says 'tkhines' [women's Yiddish prayers] for her late daughter."
 
Date: pub. Sept. 23, 1923
Location: Warsaw
Photog: n/a 
Frame 42179: Click for full display
Description:
('Jewish Daily Forward' captions:) "Looking for a customer. His trade is to intone 'Eyl mole rakhamim' (prayer for the dead) for relatives who come visiting the graves of their near ones..." "on the holy days [between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur]..."
 
Frame 43441: Click for full display
Date: pub. Sept. 23, 1928
Location: Grodno
Photog: n/a 
Description:
Two well-dressed women stopping on the cobblestone. "The road to God's house." "To Kol Nidre [prayer recited Yom Kippur eve]. At dusk Yom Kippur eve, on a street in Grodno." ('Jewish Daily Forward' caption in English and Yiddish.)
 
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Frame 39118: Click for full display
Description:
A Jewish New Year's Greeting: a tableau showing `kidesh levone' (blessing of the new moon) at the end of Yom Kippur.
 
Frame 39123: Click for full display
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Location:
Photog: n/a 
Description:
A Jewish New Year's Greeting: tableau showing women and a child "at the buying of `kapores' [chickens used as symbolic scapegoats in a pre-Yom Kippur ceremony]."
 
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Photog: n/a 
Frame 27753: Click for full display
Description:
Jewish New Year's greeting card: `shlogn kapores' -- a rite performed before Yom Kippur. A person's sins are symbolically transferred to a chicken, which is then sacrificed. (Yiddish verse) "The hen is going to death now/ and we -- to life and health."
 
Frame 34525: Click for full display
Date: 1920s-30s
Location: Warsaw
Photog:  
Description:
On the eve of Sukes: Orhtodox Jewish boys on a cobblestone street, carrying 'esreg' and 'lulev' (citron and palm branch used in the holiday ritual).
 
Date: 1920s-30s
Location: Warsaw
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Frame 34527: Click for full display
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On Sukes: a 'suke' (booth used in the holiday ritual) set up in a courtyard.
 
Frame 34529: Click for full display
Date: 1920s-30s
Location: Warsaw
Photog:  
Description:
On the eve of Sukes: a woman carrying a bundle of 'heshaynes' (foliage used in the holiday ritual) and a covered basket along a commercial street.
 
Date:
Location: Warsaw
Photog: Kuszer 
Frame 34531: Click for full display
Description:
Polish peasants selling foliage to Jews for use in the Sukes ritual.
 
Frame 27754: Click for full display
Date: 1937
Location: Cracow
Photog:  
Description:
"As many `sukes' as there are families." On Sukes, Jews eat, sleep and study in temporary dwellings like those in which their ancestors lived in the wilderness after the Exodus from Egypt.
 
Date:
Location: Warsaw
Photog: Kuszer 
Frame 27755: Click for full display
Description:
Two men examining `esroygim' (citrons) with a magnifying glass, looking for imperfections. The `esreg' is one of the "four species" of plants blessed on Sukes.
 
Frame 27757: Click for full display
Date:
Location: Poland
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Description:
Jewish New Year's greeting card: a woman and a girl with `lulev' and `esreg' (palm branch and citron) performing the blessing on Sukes.
 
Date: 1920s-30s
Location: Warsaw
Photog: Kuszer 
Frame 27758: Click for full display
Description:
A man selling flags for Simkhes-Toyre, in front of a shoe store. On the eve of Simkhes-Toyre, the last day of Sukes, children carry flags in a procession to celebrate the end of a year's cycle of Torah readings.
 
Frame 34532: Click for full display
Date: 1930s
Location: Warsaw
Photog:  
Description:
Boys on the street holding flags used in the Simkhes Toyre holiday.
 
Date:
Location: Poland
Photog: n/a 
Frame 27759: Click for full display
Description:
Jewish New Year's greeting card: `Khanike-gelt'. A father practices the custom of giving coins to his children on Hanukah.