Title: | Morris Yankelwoitz |
Description: | Caption: "Rosh ha-Shana began yesterday ... Photograph shows Morris Yankelwoitz blowing ram's horn [shofar] to signify event. He is an inmate of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Orphan Asylum." Image includes four other elderly men. Note: It is assumed that the name of this institution is really Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged. |
Date: | 1937 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
Creator: | Brooklyn daily eagle. |
More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Sept. 6/37; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Social Welfare [3]
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Subject: |
Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged (New York, N.Y.) [4] Old age homes [5] Rosh ha-Shanah [6] Shofar [7] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
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: | SWEL 0184 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/f1865c9243c6ef476a5ce92af28bd501&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Social+Welfare
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged (New York, N.Y.)
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/o/Old age homes
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Rosh ha-Shanah
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Shofar