About This Item


  • TitleMorris Yankelwoitz
  • Call NumberSWEL_0184
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Rosh ha-Shana began yesterday ... Photograph shows Morris Yankelwoitz blowing ram's horn [shofar] to signify event. He is an inmate of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Orphan Asylum." Image includes four other elderly men. Note: It is assumed that the name of this institution is really Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged.
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Sept. 6/37; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged (New York, N.Y.) ; Old age homes -- New York (State) -- New York ; Rosh ha-Shanah ; Shofar
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.