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 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…"
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 father blessing his children. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "At the New Year, may God grant / A thousand blessings, a thousand joys."
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!"
Romantic Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "Go, open up your soul for God / And pray for a sweet year / That happiness should shine bright / In our life of paradise."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "How clean the house is. Mother lights the candle / And pours out her heart for the Creator / Father's face radiates joy / And he is mefalpel in Torah."
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 card with a Yiddish poem : "The birds gives the card / On which it is written / In the coming year / She will be with her beloved / And the New Year / Will bring joy and happiness / And never again / Will she be parted from her beloved."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the "latest news," including : --Salvation and comfort for Jews / --A certain peace is coming / --The evil decrees have become null / --Amnesty for all transgressions."
Romantic Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "The sun sends its warm rays / The wind freshens the day / In your arms I long to be / To mix your breath with mine."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the delivery of a New Year's greeting. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Here you have a greeting from your dear and faithful one / It will revive and refresh you / He sends you his blessing for the New Year / And also sends you scores of kisses."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the delivery of a New Year's greeting. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Suddenly -- / The door swings open / The messenger shouts : / You've won! You've won! / God granted you good fortune / Great joy envelopes all / Father, mother, son, his bride / With happiness aglow."
Zionist Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "It flutters in the wind / Israel's ancient banner / Redemption is on its way / I make the tidings known!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "'The rabbi has bid us to be happy' / Lively! With dveykes, with fire! / Out with exile! Out with worry! Out with sorrow and pain! / A sweet, new year is coming!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a festival meal. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Holiday joy, holiday cheer / So much good fortune you bring to us!"
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!"
Zionist Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "It flutters in the wind / Israel's ancient banner / Redemption is on its way / I make the tidings known!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "I give you, little children, a blessing / For the New Year, which is coming! / May you grow big and bloom / Like flowers in the flower patch."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "I accompany the year with song / I greet him with it / Lifelong luck and joy / That's my petition for you."
Romantic Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "I wish you strength and vigor / To love me with truth and ardor / May not a single cloud / Darken your sky."
Romantic Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "The sun sends its warm rays / The wind freshens the day / In your arms I long to be / To mix your breath with mine."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the delivery of a New Year's geeting. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Dear one, take my greeting / Golden times are just ahead / Filled with light and joy and love / Filled with blooms and flowers full."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the delivery of a New Year's greeting. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "A letter, a greeting, a check in dollars! / Arrived from the New World / Quickly the table is cleared / Hurry, hand over the check!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard by Hayyim Goldberg depicting the commencement of the holiday. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "May God inscribe you / In the Book of Life / And may He bless our union / And grant us happiness and good fortune."
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 a celebratory dance. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "No more doom and gloom! / Dance, sing and praise the Creator / Great is He beyond measure! / Marvels and miracles He performs / From the yoke of exile He will redeem us / In the coming year."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "'…You have chosen us from among the nations' / And we extol and praise You / God, may the New Year / Increase and raise us up!"
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."
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 showing the scales of justice weighted down with fish; a moon and stars are above the scale. Text at the bottom of the postcard reads : "May our merits multiple like fish and the stars at night."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting cherubs holding a book inscribed with an excerpt of a prayer that is part of the liturgy during the Ten Days of Repentance. The text reads : "In the book of life, blessing, peace and good sustenance may we be remembered and inscribed before Thee, we and all Thy people the house of Israel, for a happy life and for peace."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with an inset landscape beneath a book inscribed with an excerpt of a prayer that is part of the liturgy during the Ten Days of Repentance. The text reads : "In the book of life, blessing, peace and good sustenance may be inscribed before Thee, we and all Thy people, the house of Israel, for a happy life and peace."
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."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with the date Tischri 1, the date of Rosh Hashanah, flanked by lions. Beneath, text of a prayer said between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur : "Avinu Malkeinu, kotveinu b'sefer chaim tovim." ("Our Father, Our King, write us into the book of good life.”)
Rosh Hashanah postcard with the date Tischri 1, the date of Rosh Hashanah, flanked by lions. Beneath, text of a prayer said between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur : "Avinu Malkeinu, kotveinu b'sefer chaim tovim." ("Our Father, Our King, write us into the book of good life.”)
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Torah scroll in the center. Text on the scroll reads : "And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no manner of servile work; it is a day of blowing the horn unto you."
Black-and-white engravings depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, above, and Yom Kippur at the Ashkenazi Obbene Shul in Amsterdam, below. Engraving by Bernard Picart. From Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde representées par des figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picard: avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses, Volume 1, published Amsterdam: J.F. Bernard, 1723-1737.
Black-and-white engravings depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, above, and Yom Kippur at the Ashkenazi Obbene Shul in Amsterdam, below. Engraving by Claude Du Bosc after Bernard Picart. From The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World : together with historical annotations and several curious discourses... Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates designed by Mr. Bernard Picart, and curiously engraved by most of the best hands in Europe..., Volume 1, published London: William Jackson and Claude Dubosc, 1733-1739.
Black-and-white engraving depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. Engraving after Bernard Picart. From Histoire des religions et des moeurs de tous les peuples du monde / avec 600 gravures, représentant toutes les cérémonies et coutumes religieuses, dessinées et gravées par le célèbre B. Picart ; publiées en Hollande, par J.-Fr. Bernard, Volume 5, published Paris: A. Belin, 1816-1819.
Black-and-white engraving depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. Engraving after Bernard Picart. From A new and univeral history of the religious rites and ceremonies of all nations in the world by William Hurd, published London: A. Hogg.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the 1822 building of the Synagogue de Nazareth, located on the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, in Paris during Rosh Hashanah. Published in Tableau de Paris : ouvrage illustré de quinze gents gravures by Edmond Texier.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting Rosh Hashanah in the synagogue. From The home and synagogue of the modern Jew : sketches of modern Jewish life and ceremonies, published London: Religious Tract Society.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of tashlikh. The Brooklyn Bridge can be seen in the background. The text, which is recited at the ceremony, is excerpted from Micah 7:19 : "And Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea."
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."
Black-and-white woodcut depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah. From Libellus de Judaica confessione by Johannes Pfefferkorn, published Cologne: Johannes Landen.
Color lithographic print of Arthur Szyk's painting Rosh Hashanah. From Arthur Szyk : Six paintings of Jewish holidays, published New York : Arthur Rothmann Fine Arts.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting the ceremony of tashlikh. After a painting by Wilhelm August Stryowski. Published in Über Land und Meer, Jahrgang 20, Band 40, Heft 44.
Black-and-white woodcut depicting the ceremony of tashlikh. From Libellus de Judaica confessione by Johannes Pfefferkorn, published Cologne: Johannes Landen.
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."
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 depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah. The text reads : "With trumpets and sound of the horn shout ye before the King, the Lord."
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 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 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."
Romantic Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "I have long been captivated / By your beautiful look / I would have only one request / That you can be called 'mine.'"
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