Reading the scroll

Reading the scroll
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Title: Reading the scroll
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Caption: "Reading the scroll--Wolf Edelman, 80 (left), and Joseph Rosenbluth, 73, two residents of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, Howard and Dumont Aves., study the Scroll of the Book of Esther, which they read in connection with the celebration of Purim yesterday. The ancient Hebrew holiday celebrates the deliverance of the Jews from extermination while in enslavement by the Babylonians in 516 B. C."

Date: [1953.
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Stamped on verso: date: Mar.2, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Holidays
Subject: Fasts and feasts
Purim
Torah scrolls
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 0080