About This Item

  • TitleFeast of Succoth
  • Call NumberHOLI_0095
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Feast of Succoth--At traditional Succoth, Jewish Thanksgiving festival ceremonies last night in Hebrew Educational Society building, Hopkinson and Sutter Aves., Isaac Mayer, 13, of 542 Hopkinson Ave. goes through ritual with palm branch bound together with myrtle leaves and willows of the brook and citron. Festival dates from biblical times, gets name from Hebrew word, 'Succoh,' which recalls frail booths Israelites dwelt in during Exodus."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteStamped on verso: date: Oct. 4, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFasts and feasts -- Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sukkot -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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.