About This Item

  • Call NumberHOLI_0084
  • TitleHappy New Year!
  • SummaryCaption: "Happy New Year!--Shown ushering in Jewish New Year 5713 at sunset last night is Charles Finkelstein, 89, [shown blowing the Shofar] of Warschauer Haym Solomon Home for the Aged, which is erecting a new building at Bay 34th St. and Cropsey Ave."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Stamped on verso:date:Sep[t] 20, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle; Sam Reiss, photographer. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorReiss, Sam
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectJudaism -- Customs and practices -- New York (State) -- New York ; Rosh ha-Shanah ; Shofar
  • 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: Rosh Hashanah