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How do you reach out to friends and family for the This style of Rosh Hashanah postcards originated at the end All of these postcards incorporate the joyful With a baggage You soar in the There is your Always sweet, This peculiar and endearing scene, and its In addition to being delightful products, these By James Benjamin Nadel, Communications Outreach Associate How do you reach out to friends and family for the New Year? Do you write them an email or make a call? This year you might, following a long Jewish tradition, consider sending an illustrated postcard. Such was the norm for many Jews living in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A collection of Rosh…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[217,218,213,214,216,215],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-emphemera","tag-great-treasures","tag-holidays","tag-new-year","tag-postcards","tag-rosh-hashana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNew Year? Do you write them an email or make a call? This year you might,
\nfollowing a long Jewish tradition, consider sending an illustrated postcard.
\nSuch was the norm for many Jews living in the late 19th<\/sup> and early 20th<\/sup>
\ncenturies. A collection of Rosh Hashanah postcards from the Yeshiva University Museum, one of the Center\u2019s partners, are currently on display in
\nthe Center\u2019s Great Treasures in the Great Hall display case. <\/p>\n
\nof the 19th<\/sup> century in Germany, where printing technology was
\nadvanced enough to create unique and even personalized illustrations. The style
\nsoon traveled to Poland, and major printing operations were opened in both
\nWarsaw and Krakow. The images, which could appear in black and white or in
\nbright colors, varied greatly from postcard to postcard. Some depicted Jewish
\ncommunities conducting religious rituals, such as the prayer for the new moon
\nat the end of Yom Kippur (Kidush Levanah<\/i>).
\nOthers showed everyday activities, including several that portray lovers
\nwishing one another a happy holiday. A few postcards were even written from
\nareas that had recently experienced pogroms, sent as cries for assistance from
\nrelatives.<\/p>\n
\nrefrain, L\u2019shana Tovah! \u00a0(Happy New
\nYear). But many of the postcards also include a charming rhyme, often written
\nin Yiddish. One of the postcards on display, which shows a man and a women
\nflying in an air balloon, has the following inscription: <\/p>\n\n
\nof riches, love, luck<\/i><\/p>\n
\nspacious sky, free<\/i><\/p>\n
\nlife<\/i><\/p>\n
\nalways faithful, always lovely and new<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\naccompanying stylized poem, surely would have made the occasion memorable. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
\npostcards also provide anthropological details about the lives of Eastern
\nEuropean Jewry. In them, we see Jews praying, celebrating, mourning,
\ninteracting with new technologies, and experiencing their lives. To see more of
\nthese postcards, see the YIVO Encyclopedia<\/a>
\nentry about postcards, which includes many pictures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"