About This Item

  • Call NumberHOLI_0080
  • TitleReading the scroll
  • SummaryCaption: "Reading the scroll--Wolf Edelman, 80 (left), and Joseph Rosenbluth, 73, two residents of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, Howard and Dumont Aves., study the Scroll of the Book of Esther, which they read in connection with the celebration of Purim yesterday. The ancient Hebrew holiday celebrates the deliverance of the Jews from extermination while in enslavement by the Babylonians in 516 B. C."
  • Date[1953]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Mar.2, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFasts and feasts -- Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York ; Purim -- New York (State) -- New York ; Torah scrolls -- 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: Purim