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Billboards for Municipal Elections, Tel Aviv
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The Hebrew sign in this photograph, from the 1927 municipal election in Tel Aviv in 1927, urges: “Vote gimel” (the Hebrew letter on the ballot representing a particular party or slate of candidates)…

Contributor:

Zvi Orushkes (Oron)

Places:

Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Date:

1927

Subjects:

Photography, Politics, Cities, Jewish identity, Adolescence

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography, Political Culture
Photograph of men huddled together on a car holding billboards, surrounded by young men on bicycles following them down the street.
Lazar Brodsky Choral Synagogue
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The Lazar Brodsky Choral Synagogue is built in the Romanesque revival style, with elements of Moorish revival. It is known as the Brodsky Choral Synagogue because it was built on the estate of the…

Contributor:

Georgiy Schleifer

Places:

Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1898

Subjects:

Art, Photography, Synagogue, Cities, Jewish identity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Photograph of exterior of building with rounded window frames and decorative columns, and man in hat walking toward it.
Yom Kippur, East River, New York City
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Though this photograph of Orthodox Jews at the East River has long been captioned as having been taken on Yom Kippur, it is much more likely that it was taken on the first afternoon of Rosh Hashanah…

Contributor:

Robert Frank

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Date:

1955

Subjects:

Photography, Holidays, Yom Kippur, Cities, Jewish identity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of men in hats and suits and one boy in skullcap outside with their backs turned away from the camera, looking toward the river.
Beach Scene, Rosh Hashanah
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This photograph of Jewish men on a Miami beach carrying their prayer books to synagogue on Rosh Hashanah appeared in Nagler and Isaac Bashevis Singer’s 1991 book, My Love Affair with Miami Beach. The…

Contributor:

Richard Nagler

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Date:

1986

Subjects:

Photography, Rosh Hashanah, Jewish identity, Community, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph depicting people walking toward buildings, away from the camera.
Courtyard of Sarajevo Synagogue
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This photograph of a courtyard of the Sarajevo Synagogue is included in Serotta’s 1991 book, Out of the Shadows: A Photographic Portrait of Jewish Life in Central Europe, which collected photographs…

Contributor:

Edward Serotta

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Date:

1988

Subjects:

Photography, Cities, Jewish identity, Jewish quarters, Memory

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Aerial photograph of courtyard with large tree featuring people seated at tables socializing.
The National and University Library
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Architects Ziva Armoni and Hanan Hebron were commissioned to design the National and University Library in Jerusalem. The library is charged with collecting and preserving materials connected to…

Contributor:

Ziva Armoni, Hanan Hebron

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1960

Subjects:

Photography, Cities, Education, Jewish identity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Aerial photograph of a rectangular building with a courtyard and trees.