About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0450
  • TitleHistory lessons for Israeli visitors
  • SummaryCaption: "History lessons for Israeli visitors--Mrs. Rena Saffarty, 97, the oldest resident of the Sephardic Home for the Aged, 2265 Cropsey Ave., tells Behor S. Sitreet, Israel's Minister of Police, right, and Yossef Nahmias, Deputy Inspector General of Israel's Police, center, that she can look from her window into Gravesend Bay, where the ship bearing the first Sephardic Jewish immigrants anchored overnight, 300 years ago, and waited for Gov. Peter Stuyvesant to grant them permission to land in New Amsterdam. Looking on is Albert Assa, 88, the first resident of the new shelter for Sephardic oldsters. ..."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Nov. 30, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorShain, Mac A.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSephardic Home for the Aged (New York, N.Y.) ; Older people -- New York (State) -- New York ; Old age homes -- 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: Social welfare: Homes: Sephardic Home for the Aged