About This Item

  • Call NumberHOLI_0085
  • TitleRosh ha-Shanah
  • SummaryCaption: "Truly devout and humble, this elderly woman praying to have her sins washed away into the ocean at Brighton Beach, a religious rite of the Rosh ha-Shanah season, declined to give the cameraman her name or address."
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Sept. 27, 1938; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBeaches -- New York (State) -- New York ; Judaism -- Customs and practices -- New York (State) -- New York ; Prayer -- New York (State) -- New York ; Rosh ha-Shanah
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrighton Beach (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Rosh Hashana