Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a ship ticket good for a 120 year tour on the stream of life. The postcard includes a steamship on the water in the center, flanked by two flags, each with a Star of David.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a ship ticket good for a 120 year tour on the stream of life. The postcard includes a steamship on the water in the center, flanked by two flags, each with a Star of David.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the delivery of a New Year's greeting. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "The man writes a letter for the New Year / His wife cries a quiet tear / Grant us, God, sustenance, mazel / And separate us no more!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting Birkat Hamazon on Erev Yom Kippur. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "And may God, who we praise and bless / From His hand only bring us our release / Bring us not, God forbid, to the donations of men / To their gifts, to their loans!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting going to synagogue. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Go, Jews, go into God's house / And pray for a good year to come in!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard by Hayyim Goldberg with a Yiddish poem : "In merit of the candle that I light here now / In merit of the holy fire / Be gracious to me, God, with my husband, with the children / Illuminate and shine upon us this New Year!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "Make then a blessing and say Shehecheyanu / 'Who has brought us to this time' / May You guard us against every danger / And and may we have a good year once again!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard by Hayyim Goldberg depicting Motzei Yom Kippur. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "The fast is over. We have come from shul / Hearts are full with comfort and hope / We mark a happy New Year / Sitting around the table eating and drinking / "Who distinguishes between sacred..." the gramophone sings / And we breathe cheerfully, freely."
Rosh Hashanah postcard by Hayyim Goldberg depicting the ceremony of Kiddush. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "You have chosen us from among the nations / Of all people, God, you have placed us higher / You have given us holidays good and beautiful / I will lift the cup of wine for You."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the delivery of a New Year's greeting. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "She reads in the little letter : / 'Oh, dear one, I will come / Heartfully, happily / With delicate white flowers!'"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the delivery of a New Year's greeting. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "A little letter from him to her / A wish with words of love : 'New Year, carry much happiness / For her, my bashert!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the delivery of a New Year's greeting. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Happiness for the New Year, money for the New Year! / Do you see, what I bring here to you? / To everyone -- salvation, joy / All happy, all rich!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The following is recited during the ceremony : "This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a festival meal. The posctard includes a Yiddish poem : "With family at the table / Drink to the New Year doubly new / Lift high your cup of wine / May your mazel be blessed!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a festival meal. The posctard includes a Yiddish poem : "At the nighttime festival meal / Sits the happy family / Eat and drink and let it be well with you / Here comes a year of prosperity."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a festival meal. The posctard includes a Yiddish poem : "Eat in good health and drink, "L'chaim!" / May the meal be well received / High up in heaven / And a good year be inscribed."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "The radio sounds, the radio resounds / 'Father, mother, a good year to you!' / 'May much naches be yours this year!' / Everything blessed, rich!'"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a portion of the Ma Tovu prayer, recited by Jews upon entering the synagogue : "How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwellings, O Israel."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the Simchat Torah tradition of Kol HaNe'arim. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Small children under the tallis / Exactly like little birds in a nest / Also keep yourselves together / As the Torah holds you fast."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a portion of the Ma Tovu prayer, recited by Jews upon entering the synagogue : "But as for me, let my prayer be unto Thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time; answer me with the truth of Thy salvation."
Anti-Nazi Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot, with Hitler's head in place of the rooster's head. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "And a new, sweet year comes / Then we will shlogn kapores / With every one of Hitler's men / With all troubles and afflications."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting charity given on Erev Yom Kippur. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "In virtue of the charity we give / No matter when, no matter how small or large / Inscribe us God, in the Book of Life / And nevermore may it be erased."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting charity given on Erev Yom Kippur. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "In virtue of the charity we give / No matter when, no matter how small or large / Inscribe us God, in the Book of Life / And nevermore may it be erased."
Rosh Hashanah postcard by Hayyim Goldberg depicting a fortune-teller. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "I'll tell you your fortune, it can be seen in the hand / There are enough signs present here / You will take a gold bride, a precious stone / Also - a great dowry!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard by Hayyim Goldberg depicting a fortune-teller. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "I'll tell you your fortune, it can be seen in the hand / There are enough signs present here / You will take a gold bride, a precious stone / Also - a great dowry!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "She buys a greeting with details and gold -- / The groom will send one to her, she is his beloved / He buys a 'Shanah Tova,' a toy, a curiosity / He sends it to his bride, and with it wishes her happiness."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "And he learns with a rabbi / The sidra every week / The rabbi interprets the Chumash for him / And Motel repeats it."
Zionist Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "We raise our flags to the sky and call : / Brothers, from God demand your due / May He bring joy and happiness to you." The banner text reads : "Angels of all the heavens unite! / We demand 120 years of joy / And amnesty for all our sins!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the delivery of a New Year's greeting. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "A little letter from him to her / A wish with words of love : 'New Year, carry much happiness / For her, my bashert!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting Jews immigrating to Eretz Israel (Land of Israel). The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "With a newly enthusiastic heart / With a free and proud gaze / Jews hurry to the train / To their own land, to their own happiness."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the sending of a New Year's greeting : "Take, carry my wishes to one after another today / Wherever a house, wherever a friend / But arrive to my beloved first / I send her my best greeting."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "A good year to you, dear girls! / Let us now speak only of happiness! / May the New Year bring us / More naches, light and peace!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "A good year to you, dear girls! / Let us now speak only of happiness! / May the New Year bring us / More naches, light and peace!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a menorah in the center. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Happiness, health, and life / May God give you / And what pleases you / From the beautiful world."
Black-and-white Rosh Hashanah postcard with a pair of birds carrying a New Year's greeting, in front of a wreath of flowers. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Dear doves, bright, white / Are bringing us sweet, important news / Are bringing us good fortune and dear hopes / Are opening for us safe, joyful paths."
Postcard with a black-and-white illustrated portrait of author, poet, essayist, and dramatist Yitskhok Leybush Peretz (I. L. Peretz). Illustration by Perec Willenberg.
Postcard with a black-and-white photographic portrait of author, poet, essayist, and dramatist Yitskhok Leybush Peretz (I. L. Peretz), including a biographical note.
Postcard with a black-and-white photographic portrait of poet and essayist Yehudah Leib Levin (also known by the literary acronym Yehalel), including a biographical note.
Postcard by Hayyim Goldberg with the first two stanzas of Morris Rosenfeld's poem Mayn Yingele (My Little Son) : "I have a son, a little son / A youngster mighty fine! / And when I look at him I feel / That all the world is mine. / But seldom do I see him when / He's wide awake and bright. / I always find him sound asleep / I see him late at night."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with text excerpted from Isaiah 2:3 : "For out of Zion shall go forth the law." With text above the ark from Psalm 113:3 : "From the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof the Lord's name is to be praised."
Rosh Hashanah postcard by Hayyim Goldberg depicting a festival meal. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "'L'chaim!' L'shalom! / May it be absolutely / A year, which one should / Remember for good!"
Postcard by Hayyim Goldberg with an excerpt of lyrics by Morris Rosenfeld for the song "O ir kleyne likhtelekh:" "Oh, you little candles / You tell stories / Innumerable legends / You tell of blood / Triumph and courage / Wonders of the past!"
Color postcard with the design of the Jewish National Fund's commemorative Theodor Herzl stamp, featuring Herzl looking toward the Tower of David in Jerusalem, as Jewish pioneers march to work below.