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Collection:  Jewish Holidays

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Frame 53183: Click for full display
Date: ca. 1939
Location: Vilna
Photog: n/a 
Description:
Informal outdoor portrait of students from a Tarbut gymnasium (secondary school) on a Tu-Bishvat excursion in Vilna: teenagers in overcoats pose with their teacher (left) in the snow.
 
Date: 1927
Location: Vilnius
Photog: n/a 
Frame 36914: Click for full display
Description:
Tu b'shvat (Arbor Day) at a CEBEKA (Central Education Committee) school: members of a marching band (with drum and bugle) and other young men pose holding up a sign reading in Polish and Yiddish, "[CEBEKA] tree planting holiday."
 
Frame 48244: Click for full display
Date: 1939
Location: Pabrade
Photog: n/a 
Description:
Tarbut school children in a Purim 'shpil'.
 
Date: pub. April 20, 1930
Location: Warsaw
Photog: Kacyzne, Alter 
Frame 29411: Click for full display
Description:
Two street peddlers together with a basket of wares: "A noisemaker. A noisemaker for Purim." "Just a lot of noise. Rattles for the Purim celebration." (Yiddish and English captions. From a photo essay in the "Forward": "The Latest From The Old Country.")
 
Frame 43043: Click for full display
Date: Turn of the century
Location: Knyszyn
Photog:  
Description:
"A rare picture of 'Purim shpilers' [local Jews who perform ad hoc for the Purim festival]... who have donned military dress to collect money for welfare institutions." "A band of 'Purim shpilers'. A group of Jewish musicians..." ("Forward" captions.)
 
Date: ca. 1930s
Location: Tomaszew
Photog:  
Frame 34156: Click for full display
Description:
Scene from an 'Ahasuerus' play (traditionally performed on Purim): Reyzl Kopiec (seated, right) as King Ahasuerus, and Beyltshe Zinger (seated, center) as Queen Esther.
 
Frame 36761: Click for full display
Date:
Location: Vilnius
Photog: Grossman, Moryc 
Description:
Students performing a Purim play under the direction of Dr. Max Weinreich, Moyshe (Moses) Kulbak and Dr. Rosenthal at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary.
 
Date: 1937
Location: Szydlowiec
Photog: n/a 
Frame 27764: Click for full display
Description:
Studio portrait of `Purim-shpiler' in costume, with musical instruments. `Purim-shpiler' performed traditional plays on Purim, a holiday celebrating the Jews' deliverance from Haman's plot.
 
Frame 48813: Click for full display
Date: Spring 1936
Location: Latvia
Photog: n/a 
Description:
Portrait of a family at a Passover meal: Jacob, a middle-aged man wearing a 'yarmulke' (skullcap) and two smiling young women seated at a table on which there are matzohs. (Background) a china cabinet. (Written on back in German) "... At home."
 
Date: World War I
Location: Lodz
Photog: n/a 
Frame 49125: Click for full display
Description:
On a cobblestone street at the entrance to J. Koprovsky's pharmacy: (German caption) "Dish washers who wash dishes to make them kosher for Passover." A crowd of people watch as two men carry a barrel of boiling water on a pole on their shoulders.
 
Frame 29302: Click for full display
Date: pub. April 21, 1929
Location: Lida
Photog: Kacyzne, Alter 
Description:
"'A matzoh into the oven!' The proprietress [center], the 'redler' [perforators, at the table] and the 'shiber' [oven loader] of a matzoh bakery..." (Yiddish caption from a "Jewish Daily Forward" photo essay: "Preparing For The Passover Holidays.")
 
Date: pub. April 21, 1929
Location: Zyrardow
Photog: Bojm, H. 
Frame 29301: Click for full display
Description:
A 'shiber' [oven loader] balancing four freshly baked round matzohs on a pole, between the oven and the cooling rack (right). (Unbaked matzohs hang on a pole behind him.) (Part of a "Forward" photo essay: "Preparing For The Passover Holidays.")
 
Frame 43380: Click for full display
Date: pub. April 8, 1928
Location: Russia
Photog: n/a 
Description:
Jewish members of a Russian military band at a seder. "Having what to sing and say [i.e., no end of troubles] -- and to play -- serving the Tsar... where they had what to sing and say outside of the Haggadah, these soldiers still observed Passover..."
 
Date:
Location: Lodz
Photog: n/a 
Frame 31189: Click for full display
Description:
Kashering utensils in a boiler in preparation for Passover, on Fefer Street in the Baluty neighborhood. ( Such boilers were brought around by tinsmiths, who made extra money for the holiday this way.)
 
Frame 32051: Click for full display
Date: 1905
Location: Molczadz
Photog: n/a 
Description:
At the funeral of Alter Wiener and his wife, distinguished Jews in town, who were asphyxiated in their sleep from the fumes of coal gas which escaped from the oven they were kashering (making kosher) on the eve of Passover.
 
Date: 1929
Location: Stolin
Photog:  
Frame 33705: Click for full display
Description:
Rabbi Osher Fialkow and his 'shames' (personal assistant) walking through the marketplace on their way to collect 'moes-khitim' (alms for providing the poor with their Passover needs).
 
Frame 34516: Click for full display
Date: 1920s-30s
Location: Warsaw
Photog: n/a 
Description:
People buying glassware for Passover.
 
Date:
Location: Warsaw
Photog: n/a 
Frame 34865: Click for full display
Description:
At a Passover seder for Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army, given by the Tomkhey Aniyim Association (a charitable organization).
 
Frame 40470: Click for full display
Date: 1936
Location: Vilnius
Photog: n/a 
Description:
At the Passover seder at the city `talmetoyre': pupils in uniform, school officials in top hats, festival wine on the tables, and lit candelabra on the dais. Hebrew motto on wall reads: "Remember the exodus from Egypt." (From an album.)
 
Date: pub. June 26, 1932
Location: Cracow
Photog:  
Frame 43567: Click for full display
Description:
"A child of a 'rebe's' [leader of a Hasidic sect's] family [left] on a walk with a group of Hasidic rabbis. They're walking into the woods they are, as is the custom on Lag B'omer." (From a 'Forward' photo spread on Lag b'Omer among Cracow's Hasidim.)