About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0163
  • TitleDesecrated by hoodlums
  • SummaryRabbi standing in altar of unidentified synagogue; ripped furniture and other debris before him. Caption: "DESECRATED BY HOODLUMS: Rabbi Silverman, in prayer shawl, examines part of the wreckage left by vandals at the altar. The pulpit, in front, also was defiled."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Apr. 15, 1945; "Eagle staff photo." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectVandalism -- New York (State) -- New York ; Rabbis -- New York (State) -- New York ; Synagogues -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crime -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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: Crime: Vandalism