Postcard with a black-and-white photographic portrait of author Sholem Aleichem. Issued by the Yiddish Cultural Society on the centenary of the author's birth.
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Torah ark. Text beneath reads : "The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath. To observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a kiddush cup between two candles. Text below is excerpted from the Union Prayer Book : "May the Sabbath cup be to us a cup of salvation, which we lift up calling upon the name of the Lord. And as this weekly day of rest and worship enjoined by Thy law has brought blessing to many nations, may it at last unite all men in a covenant of peace and holy fellowship."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a kiddush cup between two candles. Text below is excerpted from the Union Prayer Book : "May the Sabbath cup be to us a cup of salvation, which we lift up calling upon the name of the Lord. And as this weekly day of rest and worship enjoined by Thy law has brought blessing to many nations, may it at last unite all men in a covenant of peace and holy fellowship."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Torah ark. Text beneath reads : "The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath. To observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever."
A postcard of the mural from the main lobby of the Fort Sumter Hotel that depicts the attack on Fort Sumter. The front of the postcard reads, "This mural painting, in the Main Lobby of the Fort Sumter Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina, symbolizes the initial attack by Confederate forces, beginning the War Between the States.--The painting is by Alfred Hutty, internationally noted artist and etcher." The back of the postcard reads, "The first shot of the War Between the States was fired April 12, 1861, from a Confederate battery at Fort Johnson (position of the observer in this painting) and landed on the parade ground of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. In this painting Fort Sumter is center, Fort Moultrie to the distant left and a floating Confederate battery to the right. The flag is the original seven star flag of the Confederacy. Fort Sumter, occupied by Confederates on April 14, 1861, was under constant siege by Federal forces from that date until February 18, 1865--In 1948 Fort Sumter was designated a national monument."
Rosh Hashanah postcard showing ships marked ge'ulah (redemption) filled with refugees immigrating to the State of Israel. The banner at the top of the postcard reads : "Bruchim HaBaim LeIsrael" (Welcome to Israel).
A black and white photographic postcard of a dirt path to Fort Frederick in Beaufort, South Carolina. Correspondence postmarked February 26, 1947. Printed in Germany.
Black and white photographic postcard of the exterior of the synagogue in Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary). A caption on the reverse reads : "Original picture of the synagogue of Karlovy Vary, which has been destroyed by Germans in year 1939."
A postcard for South Carolina listing the state nickname, the 1940's South Carolina population, the area in square miles of South Carolina, and date South Carolina entered the Union. Correspondence postmarked July 11, 1943.
Color postcard of the exterior of Temple Emanu-El, formerly the Miami Beach Community Jewish Center and then the Miami Beach Jewish Center, in Miami Beach.
Color postcard of the exterior of Temple Emanu-El, formerly the Miami Beach Community Jewish Center and then the Miami Beach Jewish Center, in Miami Beach.
Postcard with a caricature of composer Oscar Straus, including postage cancellation stamps advertising Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew), a Nazi exhibition of degenerate art held in Vienna in 1938.
Postcard with a black-and-white photograph of the building housing Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew), a Nazi exhibition of degenerate art held in Vienna in 1938.
Color postcard with a reproduction of a painting by Michael Califano entitled The Ignominy of the Twentieth Century. The painting depicts Albert Einstein facing Adolf Hitler, who stands in front of a bloody sword. An inscription on the back reads: "Neither hatred nor persecution can stay the progress of science and civilization."