Wishing you a happy, healthy and sweet New Year!
לשנה טובה ומתוקה
This 1900s Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) postcard, printed in Germany and written in Hebrew and Yiddish, was distributed during a time of mass Jewish immigration to the United States. (Approximately 1,838,000 Jews immigrated to America between 1899 and 1924.) The postcard resembles a steamship ticket and, from the Statue of Liberty to a factory, it depicts the freedoms, jobs and other opportunities that awaited immigrants.
An enlarged copy of A Good-Year Ship Ticket (courtesy of Iris and Mort November) is part of our permanent exhibit, An American Story.
—Hadas Binyamini, Coordinator, Student Learning & Community Engagement
