Front Text - 6502;Text on the back -Carte Postale:Correspondance - Adresse Lévy Fils et Cie, Paris;Production period - 1895 - 1919;Front Period - 1895 - 1919;Category - Religious life;Description - This horizontal postcard depicts the Brith milah, which is the Circumcision Ceremony. This religious practice is performed on the eighth day of the child's life, by a mohel, a circumciser, who appears in the center of the image. As we can see in the picture, the ritual is made in the presence of family and friends who are standing around the baby. The man who holds the child on his knee during the ceremony is called the Sandaq(godfather). He wears the tallit (prayer shawl) and sits on a throne which represents the seat of the prophet Eliahou. Next to the mohel, there is a table on which we can distinguish the glass of the Kiddush, the blessing which accompanies the ceremony. The child's father seems to be the man in the left foreground: He is covered with the tallit during all the ceremony, as the tradition goes. Opposite him stands probably his wife which is the only woman is the assi;Back Handwritten Text - 12.2.19
| Title |
Scènes et Types. - La Cérémonie de la Circoncision. - LL. |
|---|---|
| Additional Titles |
Scenes and Types. - The Ceremony of the Circumcision. - LL. Ceremony of circumcision (Tunisia?) |
| Contributors |
אוסף גלויות היודאיקה ע"ש יוסף ומרגיט הופמן. האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים. המרכז לחקר הפולקלור. אוסף גלויות היודאיקה ע"ש יוסף ומרגיט הופמן |
| Creation Date |
1895-1919 |
| Notes |
6502 |
| Call number at Current Custodian |
אוסף גלויות היודאיקה ע"ש יוסף ומרגיט הופמן. |
| Host Item |
המקור נמצא ב:אוסף גלויות היודאיקה ע"ש יוסף ומרגיט הופמן. |
| Language |
French |
| Language Note |
French |
| Credits |
אוסף גלויות היודאיקה ע"ש יוסף ומרגיט הופמן, המרכז לחקר הפולקלור, המכון למדעי היהדות ע"ש מנדל, האוניברסיטה העברית. |
| National Library system number |
997003452780405171 |
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אוסף גלויות היודאיקה ע"ש יוסף ומרגיט הופמן, המרכז לחקר הפולקלור, המכון למדעי היהדות ע"ש מנדל, האוניברסיטה העברית.
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