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I like learning about Jewish art and making things
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East Side grandmothers buying candles for Yom Kippur
Published in Forverts on September 23, 1928
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September 22, 2023 at 8:13 PM
Holiday shopping in Warsaw, Poland
Published in Forverts on September 23, 1928
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September 22, 2023 at 8:11 PM
Women workers published in Forverts on November 25, 1928, including farmers in Japan and Jerusalem, taxi drivers in Philadelphia, a coal digger in England, concrete worker, steam shovel operator, auto mechanic, blacksmith, and worker at a bag and barrel plant in Boston
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September 19, 2023 at 1:20 PM
Two Jewish working women, Mary Jacobson and Florence Guttenberg hitchhiked from New York to Los Angeles and back
Published in Forverts on November 25, 1928
September 19, 2023 at 1:13 PM
Women workers published in Forverts on September 13, 1936, including construction workers, a linewoman, an icewoman, a coal miner, longshorewomen, a horse shoer, an electric welder, a blacksmith, and a sign painter
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September 18, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Looking for a Customer - His trade is to intone 'El Moleh Rachmim' (prayer for the dead) for relatives who come visiting the graves of their near ones in Warsaw (on the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur)
Published in Forverts on September 23, 1923
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September 18, 2023 at 1:19 PM
Aaron Goodelman illustration of Days of Awe
Published in Leyenbikher far der Idisher Shul by Israel Steinbaum (NY, 1924)
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September 18, 2023 at 1:15 PM
The burlesque theater will be open all day today (Monday, January 21, 1918), but will be closed tomorrow by order of the fuel administration.
Published in Forverts on January 21, 1918
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September 17, 2023 at 1:03 PM
Yiddish advertisement for a burlesque show Published in Forverts on February 9, 1918
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September 17, 2023 at 1:03 PM
Advertisements for Gayety, The Home of Burlesque, a theatre to take your sister, mother, or sweetheart to
Published in Forverts September, 1917
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September 17, 2023 at 12:57 PM
Tashlikh in New York
Published in Forverts on September 12, 1937
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September 16, 2023 at 6:07 PM
Tashlikh in New York
Published in Forverts on September 20, 1936
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September 16, 2023 at 6:04 PM
Rosh Hashanah at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Los Angeles in 1933
Published in Forverts on September 9, 1934
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September 16, 2023 at 6:01 PM
Tashlikh on the Williamsburg Bridge
Published in Forverts on October 9, 1929
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September 16, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Ethiopian Jews in New York celebrating Rosh Hashanah in 1937
Published in Forverts on September 11, 1937
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September 15, 2023 at 10:50 PM
Rosh Hashanah in New York
Left: sounding the shofar in an East Side synagogue
Right: tashlikh on the Williamsburg Bridge
Photographed in September, 1930
Published in Forverts September 13, 1931
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September 14, 2023 at 2:49 PM
In honor of the New Year: A baker's apprentice in Kalisz, Poland making challot 'with birds' (a round, twisted holiday bread) which he says are to ensure a 'birdlike year' (a year without misfortune)
Photographed September, 1930
Published in Forverts September 20, 1931
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September 14, 2023 at 2:46 PM
The main illustrator was Ido Amin who was 17 years old at the time
September 13, 2023 at 3:53 PM
No relation between these children and Syrian Intelligence could be proven so the conviction was changed to “distribution of abomination material"
September 13, 2023 at 3:46 PM
50 years ago a group of teenagers published Friki, a comic satirizing Israeli nationalism during the Yom Kippur War. They were arrested on charges of agitation, revolution, and aiding Syrian intelligence services and convicted but were acquitted on appeal
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September 13, 2023 at 3:44 PM
Illustration by Walter Edgar for a Dybbuk performance starring Miriam Goldin and Nahum Zemach, 1920s
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September 12, 2023 at 2:32 PM
I drew this photo of Bob Dylan (Shabtai Zisl Zimmerman) as a Rosh Hashanah greeting
September 11, 2023 at 10:08 PM
Amulet made for Rosh Hashanah in Kurdistan (present day Iran) in about 1920
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September 11, 2023 at 6:25 PM
A Judaica repair shop in Lodz, Poland
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September 11, 2023 at 5:53 PM
Tashlikh in Janova, Lithuania, Rosh Hashanah 1936
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September 11, 2023 at 5:43 PM