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43 photos tagged happynewyear, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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• jewishholidays
• roshhashanah
• greetingcards
• postcards
• flowers
• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• williamsburgpostcardcompany
• children
• chinatown
• newyear
• 1912
• shofars
• chinese
• rosh
• popupcards
• statueofliberty
• soldiers
• jewishsoldiers
• barn
• champagne
• blomster
• månen
• postkort

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• Center for Jewish History, NYC 35 photos
• The Library of Congress 5 photos
• SDASM Archives 1 photo
• Nasjonalbiblioteket 1 photo
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo

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Sheet of Rosh Hashanah stationery

from Center for Jewish History, NYC

• Assia_R اسيا said:

  Bon Nouvel An

Rosh Hashanah postcard

from Center for Jewish History, NYC

• only1tanuki said:

  Why would he be holding a rooster with what appears to be the face of Czar Nicholas II? Does it mean something to have one's face on a rooster?

• autoclavicle said:

  I'm guessing it is possibly a reference to the kapparot ceremony, which would take place between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/kapparot.html

• Sean Glennie said:

  It means that the (((devil's chosen))) performed a sacrificial ritual on the Tsar and his family.

Drinking to the New Year, N.Y. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• marysz said:

  The plates on the wall suggest that this might have been a German restaurant. Germans and German-Americans were much more of a presence in New York before WW1.