Jewish Postcardsin The Magnes Collection

Zoe Lewin & Anna Bella KorbatovUndergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP)

University of California, BerkeleyFall 2014

Themes

◈ The Imagined Past: Jews as farmers in Eretz Yisrael

◈ Jewish Rituals◈ The Duality of Postcards: a tool of

empowerment and propaganda ◈ Yiddish Music

Jews in Jerusalem, c. 1910

Bethlehem, c. 1910

A Peasant of Palestine, c. 1910

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Bethlehem Within Walls, c. 1910

Samaritan High Priest and scroll. c. 1910

Nazareth from the East, c. 1910

Jerusalem, Citadel of Zion, c. 1910

Women at the Mill, c. 1910

Mosque of Omar, c. 1910

Gethsemane, c. 1910

Jews at the Wailing Wall, c. 1910

Jerusalem, Jaffa Gate, c. 1910

Reading of the Scripture, c. 1910

Candle Blessing on Sabbath Eve, 1910

Sabbath Termination, 1910

Happy New Year’s Blessing, 1910

Hebrew Sacrifice, 1910

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Wedding Ceremony, 1910

Prayer Lesson for Confirmation, 1910

Tabernacle Prayer, 1910

Celebration of the Feast of Lights, 1910

ights

ights

Schopharblasen am Rosch-haschanah (Neujahrfest) (The Shofar blow on Rosh Hashanah, New Year)

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Das Fest Pürim. Vorlesung des Buches Esther in der Synagoge (The Festival of Purim. The reading of the Book of Esther in the synagogue)

Dreyfus a l’Ile du Diable Le Lever, c. 1894

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Vell, who (nose)?, c. 20th century

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Mein Yingele, pre-1917-1918

Mein Yingele (recto), pre-1917