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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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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.
Jerusalem 1967
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This year I traveled a long way to view the silence of my city. A baby calms down when you rock it, a city calms down from the distance. I dwelled in longing. I played the hopscotch of the four…

Contributor:

Yehuda Amichai

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Date:

1968

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish identity, Art, Memory, Holidays

Categories:

Poetry, Literature