About This Item

  • TitleDesecrated holy articles
  • Call NumberTEMP_0005
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Desecrated holy articles: Rabbi Maurice Idell of Congregation Ahavath Israel, 712 Quincy St., is shown holding the religious scroll and prayer shawl which were desecated when vandals broke into the temple."
  • Date1943
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white gelatin silver ; 6 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 23, 1943. Title from caption on verso. Retouched.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRabbis -- New York (State) -- New York ; Torah scrolls
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.