Feast of Succoth

Feast of Succoth
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Title: Feast of Succoth
Description:

Caption: "Feast of Succoth--At traditional Succoth, Jewish Thanksgiving festival ceremonies last night in Hebrew Educational Society building, Hopkinson and Sutter Aves., Isaac Mayer, 13, of 542 Hopkinson Ave. goes through ritual with palm branch bound together with myrtle leaves and willows of the brook and citron. Festival dates from biblical times, gets name from Hebrew word, 'Succoh,' which recalls frail booths Israelites dwelt in during Exodus."

Date: 1952
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Stamped on verso: date: Oct. 4, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Holidays
Subject: Fasts and feasts
Sukkot
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: HOLI 0095