Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "The family holds a little dance / Young and old happily together / Give them, God, a beautiful year / Grant them good things fit for a king!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "The grandchildren dance and wish their grandfather / They shout, they sing all in chorus : / 'Oh, dear grandfather, beloved grandfather / May you have a good, happy year!'"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "Grandfather blesses him for the New Year / And whispers quietly / 'May you grow and may you bloom, child / In naches and in joy!'"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "A hopkele for the New Year / The children with their fathers / May God grant a year / That is good and full!"
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 Jews immigrating to Eretz Israel (Land of Israel). The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Soon the ship will sail to the Holy Land / To life and freedom, to bright days / The hearts beat, blood flows hotter / How sweet and pleasurably good."
Rosh Hashanah postcard by Hayyim Goldberg depicting a group of boys reciting the Shema Yisrael at the bedside of a kimpeturin, a mother recovering after childbirth.
Rosh Hashanah postcard by Hayyim Goldberg with a Yiddish poem : "I beg your pardon, Father God, please! / The spark, in those who have it, has been already been long yearning / For Your shofar of the Messiah!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "Father and mother come from shul / The children in the window smile / 'A good year!' the mother wishes from afar / 'A good year!' the smallest calls from the window."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "The son wishes a good year / To his parents from a wide distance / Father, mother, may God grant you / Good luck and happy good times."
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 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!"
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 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!"