About This Item

  • Call NumberHOLI_0078
  • TitlePassover
  • SummaryCaption: "Max mednitzky, 89-year-old patriarch at the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, is shown here explaining the meaning of the Passover's ritual to three neighborhood youngsters. Reading their prayer books are (left to right) Robert Kelemen, 10 years old, of 199 Tapscott Street; Rhchard Kunis, 11, of 786 Howard Avenue, and Philip Herschkowitz, 11 of 199 Tapscott Street, all Brooklyn. Passover services at the home will start at sundown,Wednesday, April 9. The institution takes care of the needy and infirm aged."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteStamped on verso: date: Apr. 5, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectJudaism -- Customs and practices -- New York (State) -- New York ; Passover
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Holidays: Jewish: Passover