8 rare New Year postcards. United States, early 20th century.
Postcards:
“L’Shanah Tovah Tikatevu – A Souvenir from Greater New York” – a color lithographic postcard featuring an illustration of East Street in New York, with New Year’s greetings in Hebrew and German – postmarked 1901.
The building of the St. Louis World’s Fair – 1904, New Year greeting printed in Hebrew.
Illustrated postcard – a Torah scholar and a merchant, with Yiddish caption: “In Vilna he was a rabbi, in New York he is a peddler” (postmarked 1909).
New Year postcard (Hebrew and English) sent to the parents of students at Bloomfield Hebrew School – “Welcome your child back to school! Help us make their year a happy one…” (Bloomfield Hebrew School is one of the oldest Orthodox Jewish schools in the U.S.) – postmarked 1947.
Two Jews conversing about freedom in America (Hebrew Publishing Co.); Yiddish New Year greeting on the reverse.
Color lithographic New Year postcard – a ship sailing at sea with the Statue of Liberty in the background, alongside portraits of the senders and a Yiddish New Year greeting – published by Central, Warsaw (printed in Germany); Hebrew New Year greeting on the reverse.
Color lithographic New Year postcard – a son parting from his mother as he departs for America: “The child journeys across distant seas… do not forget your mother…” – published by Altneuland, Warsaw. Yiddish New Year greeting on the reverse.
New Year postcard issued by the “Chevra Mikra Kodesh” in Brooklyn (back not divided).
Overall in good – very good condition.
