| 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 |