roshhashana

typo in the heder, obviously -- Jewish New Year

undeadsinatra: Thanks for the information! The spelling in the original caption could easily have been wrong. We’ll look into it. (It won't change right away because we need to keep the information we show here in Flickr and in our own catalog (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html) in sync.)

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Jewish People and History - Ancient and Modern, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

If this was photo was indeed taken around Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) as the notation implies then these people are most likely taking part in a "tashlich" ceremony. The ceremony is when the previous year's sins are symbolically "cast off" by throwing pieces of bread into a flowing body of water.

This was a very nice picture especially it was in Brooklyn, NY. Although I was not born in Brooklyn, I was born in the Bronx. But that was many years ago. Happy New Year.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ART GINGHAM PHOTOGRAPHY, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Jewish People and History - Ancient and Modern, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Does anyone know what a "Jewish New Year Parade" is? As far as I know there is no such thing, and a google search got me nowhere (except back here)! Maybe they mean Tashlikh or maybe Jews at a parade on 1 January!?

i have never heard of this before, either... very curious... i will do some hunting when i can, too...

Probably a misnomer. The photographer or person cataloging it noted many people dressed up and walking in the same direction (to the synagogue) and called it a parade.

Building is too windowed for a warehouse - maybe a factory or even a school. There's a wall plaque just before the right border; maybe with sufficient resolution it could be read. Agree that 'parade' is misnomer/misinterpretation, but Sept 12, 1912 was indeed the beginning of Rosh Hashonah. They must have been on the way to services..