Traditional ceremony

Traditional ceremony
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Title: Traditional ceremony
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Caption: "Traditional ceremony--Six-year-old Aryeh Zeidman, a student attending the Crown Heights Yeshiva, 310 Crown St., offers a prayer over the first [Menorah] candle marking the beginning of Chanukah tonight, Others in the picture are, left to right, Assemblyman Stanley Steingut, City Budget Director Abraham D. Beame, benefactors of the Yeshivah, and Rabbi Joseph M. Baumol, dean. They were the guests of Harold M. Jacobs, president and chairman of the dinner to be given by the Yeshiva to Mr. Beame in the Hotel Roosevelt March 30."

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Quitko, Murray.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Stamped on verso: date: Dec. 19, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle; photo by Murray Quitko.
Title from inscription on verso.
Collection: Holidays
Subject: Fasts and feasts
Hanukkah
Jews
Legislators
Menorah
Municipal officials and employees
Rabbis
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: HOLI 0066