History lessons for Israeli visitors

History lessons for Israeli visitors
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Title: History lessons for Israeli visitors
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Caption: "History lessons for Israeli visitors--Mrs. Rena Saffarty, 97, the oldest resident of the Sephardic Home for the Aged, 2265 Cropsey Ave., tells Behor S. Sitreet, Israel's Minister of Police, right, and Yossef Nahmias, Deputy Inspector General of Israel's Police, center, that she can look from her window into Gravesend Bay, where the ship bearing the first Sephardic Jewish immigrants anchored overnight, 300 years ago, and waited for Gov. Peter Stuyvesant to grant them permission to land in New Amsterdam. Looking on is Albert Assa, 88, the first resident of the new shelter for Sephardic oldsters. ..."

Date: 1952
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Shain, Mac A.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
On verso: caption stamped: Nov. 30, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Social Welfare
Subject: Sephardic Home for the Aged (New York, N.Y.)
Older people
Old age homes
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
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: SWEL 0450