Title: | Rosh ha-Shanah |
Description: | Caption: "Truly devout and humble, this elderly woman praying to have her sins washed away into the ocean at Brighton Beach, a religious rite of the Rosh ha-Shanah season, declined to give the cameraman her name or address." |
Date: | 1938 |
Location: | Brighton Beach (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Sept. 27, 1938; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Holidays [4]
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Subject: |
Beaches [5] Judaism [6] Prayer [7] Rosh ha-Shanah [8] |
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 0085 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/a0902f7fb9f6c05cf24d40d349741694&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brighton+Beach+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Holidays
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Beaches
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/j/Judaism
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Prayer
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Rosh ha-Shanah