Postcard by Hayyim Goldberg from the series "Jewish Livelihoods." The Hebrew at the top of the postcard is excerpted from Exodus 23:5 : "you shall surely release it with him." The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "And if you see your brother fall under the burden / Do not go past like a serarah / Do not stand at a distance, run beneath as soon as possible / And help him out of trouble."
Postcard by Hayyim Goldberg from the series "Jewish Livelihoods" depicting a merchant. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "'Old galoshes, shoes, and coats!' I trade them all, I buy them all / Will a penny be made on them? / Here is a new door, a new little purchase / Perhaps God would give now a fair profit..."
Postcard by Hayyim Goldberg from the series "Jewish Livelihoods" depicting a merchant. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Let us just consider the shmatte / First - two holes are present right now / Now, see, the lining - it is worn and torn / In short, how much will the deal cost you?"
Postcard by Hayyim Goldberg from the series "Jewish Livelihoods" depicting a merchant. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Miss, take the price, and do not delay / If I trade, I want deals here / Believe me, I will give the creator his due / If I stay, it would be a tenner in profit..."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting Jewish men in the National Guard during the November Uprising (1830-1831). From Di Iden in Rusland un Poylen by Israel Friedlaender. Originally printed in Les Israélites de Pologne by Léon Hollaenderski.
Black-and-white photographic postcard of Yiddish authors at the Czernowitz Conference, 1908. From left to right : Avrom Reyzen, Yitskhok Leybush Peretz (I. L. Peretz), Sholem Asch, Khayim Zhitlovski, and Hersh Dovid Nomberg.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the Purim custom of mishloach manot (sending of portions). Text excerpted from Esther 9:19 : "Therefore do the Jews of the villages, that dwell in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another."
Printed portrait of Theodor Herzl on velvet fabric. With a stamp from the 16th World Zionist Congress, held in 1929 in Zurich. The text reads: "Do not forsake my teaching."
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).
Black-and-white engraving depicting Sukkot in the synagogue. With Hebrew text of Leviticus 23:40 : "And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days." Frontispiece to Maḥazor le-ḥag ha-Sukot ule-shabat she-betokho : ke-minhag Ashkenaz : meduyaḳ heṭev u-mevoʼar yafeh u-meturgam Ashkenazit, published Sulzbach: Buchdruckerey von S. Arnstein & Sohne.
Color postcard depicting a boy learning to lay tefillin before his bar mitzvah, including the blessing for putting on tefillin : "Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments and has commanded us regarding the commandment of tefillin."
Color lithographed portrait of three rabbis: the Vilna Gaon (above), Rabbi Meir Leibush (below right), and Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor (below left). Printed in Germany.
Postcard with reproductions of Moritz Oppenheim's paitings The Presentation at the Synagogue (Das Schultragen) and The Godfather Awaits the Child (Der Gevatter erwartet das Kind).
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the priestly blessing : "May the Lord bless you and guard you; May the Lord make His face shed light upon you and be gracious unto you; May the Lord lift up His face unto you and give you peace."
Postcard with a black-and-white photographic portrait of author and literary critic Isidor [Yisroel] Eliashev (pen name Bal-Makhshoves), including a biographical note.
Postcard with a black-and-white photographic portrait of author and literary critic Isidor [Yisroel] Eliashev (pen name Bal-Makhshoves), including a biographical note.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of Kiddush. With text of Psalm 116:13 : "I will lift up the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord."
Postcard with a pair of birds carrying a ship ticket to Eretz Israel (Land of Israel), 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."
Black-and-white engraving depicting a woman fulfilling the three mitzvot (commandments) for Jewish women: niddah (family purity), nerot (lighting of candles), and challah (separating a portion of dough). Frontispiece to Seder ha-tefilot : mi-kol ha-shanah ʻim perush bi-leshon Ashkenaz, published Amsterdam: Moshe ben Avraham Mendes Ḳoṭinyo.
Raised relief Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah. With text excerpted from Psalm 89:16 : "Happy is the people that know the joyful shout."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with an excerpt of the liturigical poem Unetanneh Tokef, which is recited during the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy : "But repentance, prayer, and righteousness avert the severe decree."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the Torah procession in synagogue. The text reads : "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together" (Psalm 34:4).
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the Torah procession in synagogue. The text reads : "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together" (Psalm 34:4).
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the Torah procession in synagogue. The text reads : "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together" (Psalm 34:4).
Color illustration of Tisha B'Av by Ze'ev Raban. Originally published in Hagenu : sefer temunot / Our holidays (1928). With stanzas excerpted from "The Wailing Place in Jerusalem" by Louis Federleicht.
