Postcard with a reproduction of Moritz Oppenheim's painting Die Jahrzeit (Minïan). The postcard is mistakenly labeled as showing a depiction of Yom Kippur on the battlefield.
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."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a father blessing his children. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "What do you want, my dear? / With what shall I bless you? / Blossom happily, be big and rich / But remain Jews and good people!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the blessing of the children : "May the New Year strengthen your heart / To truly serve the Creator / And illuminate your mind / With the beacon of His Torah."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a father blessing his children. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "At the New Year, may God grant / A thousand blessings, a thousand joys."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "Oh God, oh God almighty! / Forgive our sins, forgive! / And do not erase from the Book of Life / Any of my house…"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "And quickly life goes on / And everything changes quickly / Motel is already a father / And has a child himself."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "And well and good is Motel / To people and to God / He often plays with little children / And dances a wheel with them."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "For the sins which I have committed - Oh, holy Creator! / I open my heart to you with hope and fear / Oh, Father! May you now forgive my sins / And may you also grant health and life!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Arise, arise, kapores shlogn! / Either with a rooster or with coins / Look to the East, day is dawning / A new sun illumines the world."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a request under the chuppah. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Dear God, see the couple / Standing there under the chuppah / Give them everything that they desire / Give them everything that they request."
Postcard by Hayyim Goldber entitled "the teacher" (melamed). The text reads : "Answer, shegetz, do not be afraid / Will you go to cheder to learn Torah?"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of tashlikh. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Great and small at tashlikh all / And they cast the sins in the river / Show your benevolence, God, may we / Be healthy and rich this year."
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 with a Yiddish poem : "The little child also goes to say 'A good holiday!' / She reaches out with little hands and smiles faithfully / 'A little mazel to you and your little bones! / May you bloom, my child, like a flower in May!'"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of tashlikh. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "No matter how great the transgression / No matter how grave the sin / Gather them all together now / And cast them, God, into the sea."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting greetings after the synagogue service. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Out pain and suffering - / An end has taken them! / Now God spreads our way / With flowers and blossoms!"
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 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!"
Postcard by Hayyim Goldberg depicting the Yom Kippur ritual of kapparot. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Quicker, quicker, shochet / Quickly slaughter the kapores! / May with them disappear / All sorrow, and affliction, and trouble!"
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 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 depicting a festival meal. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Make the kiddush my child, light of my life - it's time / Chant it in a voice that's true / May you, my child, be a man among men / And also be a Jew."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "The sound of the shofar blasts / A New Year is on its way / To lift the weak of spirit / And bring you joy, comfort, and good cheer."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "Oh God, oh God almighty! / Forgive our sins, forgive! / And do not erase from the Book of Life / Any of my house…"
Postcard by Hayyim Goldberg entitled "the vision," with a Yiddish poem : "He casts a furtive glance at her / She coyly lets down her gaze / The old mother at the door / Beams with naches and happiness."
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!"
Postcard by Hayyim Goldberg with a poem entitled "Hanukkah" by Abraham Reisen : "Old grief disappears / Let us be happy tonight / All the little candles are lit / And the old happiness awakens!"
Color postcard with a reproduction of an oil painting by Robert Guttmann depicting a beth hamidrash in Carpathian Ruthenia. The original painting is held at the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Color postcard with a reproduction of an oil painting by Robert Guttmann depicting a synagogue in Carpathian Ruthenia. The original painting is held at the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Color postcard with a reproduction of an oil painting by Robert Guttmann depicting a bar mitzvah in the synagogue. The original painting is held at the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a reproduction of the lithograph Les Vermicelles by Alphonse Lévy, showing a housewife preparing frimsel (egg noodles) for the Sabbath.
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; O God, in the abundance of Thy mercy, answer me with the truth of Thy salvation."
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."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with an excerpt of the liturigical poem Unetanneh Tokef, which is recited during the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy : "On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed."
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." In this postcard, the head of the rooster used for kapparot is substituted with the face of Nicholas II of Russia.
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." In this postcard, the head of the rooster used for kapparot is substituted with the face of Nicholas II of Russia.
Rosh Hashanah postcard by Hayyim Goldberg depicting the ceremony of Havdalah. The text is excerpted from the blessing over the Havdalah candle : "Who creates the lights of the fire."
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." In this postcard, the head of the rooster used for kapparot is substituted with the face of Nicholas II of Russia.
Rosh Hashanah postcard with an excerpt of the prayer Aleinu : "For we bend the knee and offer worship and thanks before the supreme King of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He."
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