About This Item


  • Call NumberHOLI_0067
  • TitleShoul Sternberg
  • SummaryCaption: "Shoul Sternberg, 75-year-old resident of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, tells the story of Chanukah, the Feast of Lights, which will be celebrated for eight days beginning at sundown, Dec.12, to 11-year-old Robert Kelemen, of 199 Tapscott Street, Brooklyn. Holiday, which is observed by Jews throughout the world by the lighting of candles for eight days, commemorates Israeli victory over the Syrians in 165 B.C." Image includes a fully lit Menorah on a table in the foreground.
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteStamped on verso: date: Dec.13, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectFasts and feasts -- Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hanukkah ; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York ; Menorah -- 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: Holidays: Jewish: Chanukah