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Box 47

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Contains 14 Results:

Folk art, circa 1950, undated

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Prints described as "folk art" by Rosenthall, these depict of scenes of daily life, including women in the women's gallery of a synagogue, men having a dispute, men walking with a rabbi, a traveling musician, and a father and children gathered around a table. Of note are several reproductions of paintings by Saul Raskin

Dates: circa 1950, undated

Hebrew texts of prayers and blessings, 1846, undated

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

These prints feature Hebrew texts of prayers and blessings rather than imagery. Texts include shiviti, kame'a ve-shmira, the prayers of Tzidduk HaDin, and the Mourner's Kaddish, the blessing for putting on a tallit printed on fabric intended for a tallit pouch, and a large educational chart that encompasses both Jewish religious and secular educational goals (the Hebrew alphabet, Jewish prayers and blessings, and basic arithmetic and grammatical elements printed in Italian).

Dates: 1846, undated

Holidays, 1860-1874, 1923, undated

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Prints depicting customs and traditions of Passover, Purim, Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah, Tisha B'Av, and Simchat Torah.

Dates: 1860-1874, 1923, undated

Prayer and Torah study, 1901-1930, undated

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Images of men reading or praying in the synagogue. Some feature liturgical objects such as tallitot or tefillin.

Dates: 1901-1930, undated

Sabbath, undated

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white artwork reproductions of Sabbath scenes, including a painting by Isidor Kaufmann featuring men and children at prayer, and Moritz Oppenheim's painting Sabbath-Anfang (Ushering in the Sabbath).

Dates: undated

Sheet music, 1910-1918, undated

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Sheet music for musicals and song collections in English, German, and Yiddish. Of note are several Yiddish operettas. Many of the covers include Yiddish titles alongside an English translation.

Dates: 1910-1918, undated

Types and costumes, 1845-1857, 1890, undated

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Prints of unidentified Jewish individuals wearing examples of traditional dress from Algeria, Hungry, Morocco, Palestine, Poland, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen. Also included are examples of the vestments of Jewish high priests.

Dates: 1845-1857, 1890, undated

Weddings and funerals, undated

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Prints with reproductions of artwork by Samuel Hirszenberg, Maurycy Gottlieb, Jozef Israƫls, and Sol Nodel depicting wedding and funeral scenes.

Dates: undated

Yahrzeit calendars, 1926, undated

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Elaborately decorated calendars featuring blanks to fill in to note anniversaries of death dates upon which to recite the Kaddish.

Dates: 1926, undated

Buildings, 1918, undated

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Prints portraying various locations, including cities, towns, and natural landmarks in Israel and Palestine, maps, buildings of Jewish institutions, such as schools, hospitals, and orphanages, Jewish cemeteries and tombs, Jewish ghettos and neighborhoods, and the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Dates: 1918, undated