About This Item

  • Call NumberHOLI_0077
  • TitleLeading prayer
  • SummaryCaption: "Leading prayer--Gedalis Kaplan, 78-year-old former teacher, enacts Passover rites at the 40th annual Seder of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, Howard and Dumont Aves., at a sample Seder Table. At left is David Yagud, and at right are Bessie and Elias Leiberman. The holiday starts at sundown tonight."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks ; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Apr.4, 1947; on caption: Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectJudaism -- Customs and practices -- New York (State) -- New York ; Passover ; Seder
  • 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