| Title: | Ushering in new year |
| Description: | Caption: "Ushering in new year--Ram's horn [shofar] is blown by Max Mednitzsky, 88-year-old patriarch of Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, Howard and Dumont Aves., as part of pre-holiday service which ushers in Rosh Hashanah on Friday night. Assisting in the service are Wolfe Edelman, 66, left, and Lazarus Newman, 67." Image includes Torah scroll on far right. |
| Date: | 1949 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
| More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 21, 1949. 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] Torah scrolls [8] |
| 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 0186 |