Postcard from the 14th World Zionist Congress held in Vienna. With a black-and-white photograph of the cypress tree planted by Theodor Herzl in Motsa during his 1898 visit to Palestine. Includes an inset portrait of Herzl. The Hebrew text at the top of the postcard is excerpted from Jeremiah 31:16 : "And thy children shall return to their own border."
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 the ceremony of kapparot. The text from Job 33 is recited before the ritual : "Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom."
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."
Color photographic postcard of Arthur Balfour's reception at the Zionist Club in Tel Aviv during his 1925 visit to Palestine. Meir Dizengoff stands to his left.
Color photographic postcard of the Torah ark inside the Renanim Synagogue at Heichal Shlomo in Jerusalem. The ark was transferred to Heichal Shlomo from a Sephardi synagogue in Padua, Italy.
Color photographic postcard of the Torah ark inside the Renanim Synagogue at Heichal Shlomo in Jerusalem. The ark was transferred to Heichal Shlomo from a Sephardi synagogue in Padua, Italy.
Raised relief 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."
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 depicting a boy learning to lay tefillin before his bar mitzvah. The text reads : "And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes" (Deuteronomy 6:8).
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the recitation of Uva letzion, the closing prayer of the weekday morning service. With text of Psalm 145:18 above : "The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him."
Color photographic postcard of the interior, including the Torah ark, of the Central Synagogue in Kiryat Shmuel, Haifa. The ark was brought to Haifa from a synagogue in Reggio Emilia.
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Star of David at center, flanked by two flags with additional Stars of David. Inside the central Star of David is the word "Zion."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of tashlikh. The text, which is recited at the ceremony, is excerpted from Micah 7:19 : "He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of Kiddush. The text reads : "And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the appointed seasons of the Lord" (Leviticus 23:44).
