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Eight soldiers gather with their Jewish chaplain to put finishing touches on giant menorah, circa 1950

Eight soldiers gather with their Jewish chaplain to put finishing touc...

Title: Eight soldiers gather with their Jewish chaplain to put finishing touches on giant menorah, circa 1950..Note: Text on back of photograph: Eight soldiers gather with their Jewish chaplain to put finishing... More

Chaplain Hal Silverman of Brooklyn, NY lighting candles at JWB Hanukah party, 1953

Chaplain Hal Silverman of Brooklyn, NY lighting candles at JWB Hanukah...

Title: Chaplain Hal Silverman of Brooklyn, NY lighting candles at JWB Hanukah party, 1953..Note: Text on back of photograph: Cpl. Hal Silverman of Brooklyn, NY lighting candles at JWB Hanukah party held at USO ... More

Carrying Hanukkah gifts to hospitalized servicemen, 1918

Carrying Hanukkah gifts to hospitalized servicemen, 1918

Title: Carrying Hanukkah gifts to hospitalized servicemen, 1918..Note: Text on back of photograph: 1918 - Carrying Chanuka gifts to hospitalized servicemen at the Ninth Naval District Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill... More

Passover Seder service for men just returned from overseas combat

Passover Seder service for men just returned from overseas combat

Title: Passover Seder service for men just returned from overseas combat..Description: A Passover Seder service for men just returned from overseas combat will be broadcast from an Eastern port Thursday eveni... More

Chaplain Jacob Rudin conducting Passover service

Chaplain Jacob Rudin conducting Passover service

Title: Chaplain Jacob Rudin conducting Passover service..Creator: Unknown..Medium: Black and white photograph ..Date: March 28, 1945..Call Number: I-337.B10.F016.0205..Collection: National Jewish Welfare Boar... More

Jewish Welfare Board Seder at Muskogee, Oklahoma

Jewish Welfare Board Seder at Muskogee, Oklahoma

Title: Jewish Welfare Board Seder at Muskogee, Oklahoma..Description: Chaplain A.A. Steinbach, 8th Service Command, Camp Gruber, Oklahoma..Creator: Unknown..Medium: Black and white photograph ..Date: March 2... More

Happy Chanukah outdoor display

Happy Chanukah outdoor display

Description: Happy Chanukah outdoor display..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: Photograph. .Date: undated..Repository: American Jewish Historical Society ( http://www.ajhs.org ) .. Parent Collection: Natio... More

Hanukkah services for soldiers

Hanukkah services for soldiers

Description: Hanukkah services for soldiers..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: Photograph. .Date: circa 1917..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210912 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin... More

Soldiers celebrating Hanukah outside in Korea

Soldiers celebrating Hanukah outside in Korea

Description: Soldiers celebrating Hanukah outside in Korea..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: Photograph. .Date: 1953..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210140 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?... More

Molly Picon at veterans' hospital, Sydney, Nova Scotia, January 14, 1946

Molly Picon at veterans' hospital, Sydney, Nova Scotia, January 14, 19...

Description: Molly Picon at veterans' hospital, Sydney, Nova Scotia, January 14, 1946..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: Photograph. .Date: 1946 January 14..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_... More

Soldiers standing in front of Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, circa 1917

Soldiers standing in front of Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, cir...

Description: Soldiers standing in front of Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, circa 1917..Publisher: Artvue Post Card Company..Medium: Postcard. .Date: circa 1917..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&obj... More

Soldier eating matzo, circa 1945

Soldier eating matzo, circa 1945

Description: Soldier eating matzo, circa 1945..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: Negative. .Date: circa 1945..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210552 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin... More

Soldiers and women socializing at the 65th Street J.W.B. Club, New York City

Soldiers and women socializing at the 65th Street J.W.B. Club, New Yor...

Description: Soldiers and women socializing at the 65th Street J.W.B. Club, New York City, circa 1942..Creator/Photographer: Eagle, Arnold..Medium: Photograph. .Date: circa 1942..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-... More

Group portrait of soldiers and unidentified women

Group portrait of soldiers and unidentified women

Description: Group portrait of soldiers and unidentified women, circa 1918..Creator/Photographer: Unkown..Medium: Photograph. .Date: circa 1918..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210124 ( http:... More

This V-J party united patients and J.W.B. hostesses in joy at victory

This V-J party united patients and J.W.B. hostesses in joy at victory

Description: This V-J party united patients and J.W.B. hostesses in joy at victory, 1945..Creator/Photographer: Unkown..Medium: Photograph. .Date: 1945..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210092... More

Distributing cigarettes, matches, ice cream and view books...

Distributing cigarettes, matches, ice cream and view books...

Description: Text on back of photograph: Distributing cigarettes, matches, ice cream and view books of Panama and C.Z. [Canal Zone] to U.S. sailors on maneuvers with the U.S. Fleet at Panama. Jewish Welfare Boa... More

Chaplain Nathan Landman, Air Force Jewish Chaplain for France, Spain, and Libya

Chaplain Nathan Landman, Air Force Jewish Chaplain for France, Spain, ...

Description: Chaplain Nathan Landman, Air Force Jewish Chaplain for France, Spain, and Libya..Note: Text on back of photograph: Chaplain Nathan Landman, Air Force Jewish Chaplain for France, Spain, and Libya, e... More

Children decorating Sukkot in Seoul, Korea

Children decorating Sukkot in Seoul, Korea

Description: Children decorating Sukkot in Seoul, Korea..Note: Text on back of photograph: Chaplain Albert M. Diamont..Photographer: unknown..Medium: black and white photograph. .Date: 1965..: digital.cjh.org/R... More

Succoth services held in Pearl Harbor with over 35 children

Succoth services held in Pearl Harbor with over 35 children

Description: Succoth services held in Pearl Harbor with over 35 children..Note: Text on back of photograph: Succoth services held in Pearl Harbor with over 35 children (all military dependents) in Torah process... More

Decorating the Sukkah at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado

Decorating the Sukkah at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado

Description: Decorating the Sukkah at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado..Note: Text on back of photograph: (l-r): Lt. Robert Goldberg, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Airman Maynard Schlager, Boston, Mass.; Chaplain Alber... More

Yom Kippur services at Great Lakes, Illinois

Yom Kippur services at Great Lakes, Illinois

Description: Yom Kippur services at Great Lakes, Illinois..Note: Text on back of photograph: Yom Kippur services at Great Lakes, Ill. I think 1942 or 1943. Rabbi Julius Mark was chaplain. Services held in drill... More

Packing matzo for shipment to troops, 1917-1919

Packing matzo for shipment to troops, 1917-1919

Description: Packing matzo for shipment to troops, 1917-1919..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: 1917-1919..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=2103... More

Ex-servicemen at dinner on Rosh Hashanah in front of Synagogue at Kings Park, NY, 1923

Ex-servicemen at dinner on Rosh Hashanah in front of Synagogue at King...

Description: Ex-servicemen at dinner on Rosh Hashanah in front of Synagogue at Kings Park, NY..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: September 11, 1923..: digital.cjh... More

Women and men in uniform, circa 1917

Women and men in uniform, circa 1917

Description: Women and men in uniform, circa 1917..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: circa 1917..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210280 ( http:... More

Women and soldiers at an event at Camp Raritan, circa 1920

Women and soldiers at an event at Camp Raritan, circa 1920

Description: Women and soldiers at an event at Camp Raritan, circa 1920..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: circa 1920..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&ob... More

Chaplain presiding over religious service with soldiers at Camp Raritan, circa 1920

Chaplain presiding over religious service with soldiers at Camp Rarita...

Description: Chaplain presiding over religious service with soldiers at Camp Raritan, circa 1920..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: circa 1920..: digital.cjh.org/... More

Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz conducts services among "Dragon's Teeth", circa 1945

Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz conducts services among "Dragon's Teeth", ci...

Description: Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz conducts services among "Dragon's Teeth", circa 1945..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Note: Text on back of photograph: Standing in the middle of the Dragons' Teeth," World... More

Pfc. Morton Gutstadt tried out the gefilte fish of Mrs. Dave Starr..., 1952

Pfc. Morton Gutstadt tried out the gefilte fish of Mrs. Dave Starr...,...

Description: Text on back of photograph: Passover 1952 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Starr, 1575 Federal. Pfc. Morton Gutstadt of Fitzsimons Army Hospital tried out the gefilte fish of Mrs. Dave Starr with m... More

Soldiers sitting at tables during Passover meal, circa 1945

Soldiers sitting at tables during Passover meal, circa 1945

Description: Soldiers sitting at tables during Passover meal, circa 1945..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Photography Negative. .Date: ca. 1945..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-ful... More

U.S. Army and Navy Passover in Dijon France, 1919

U.S. Army and Navy Passover in Dijon France, 1919

Description: U.S. Army and Navy Passover in Dijon France, 1919..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: 1919..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-fu... More

Group portrait of Passover Seder, Manila, Philippines, 1925

Group portrait of Passover Seder, Manila, Philippines, 1925

Description: Group portrait of Passover Seder, Manila, Philippines, 1925..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: 1925..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=db... More

Soldiers doing recreational activities at Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, circa 1917

Soldiers doing recreational activities at Little White House, Camp Gor...

Description: Soldiers doing recreational activities at Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, circa 1917..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Postcard. .Date: ca. 1917..: digital.cjh.org/R/?... More

Invitation to the J.W.B. Passover Seder, Manila, Philippines, March 29-31, 1926

Invitation to the J.W.B. Passover Seder, Manila, Philippines, March 29...

Description: Text of invitation: Jewish Welfare Board Pesach Sederim, Manila. The Jewish Welfare Board Army and Navy Service Department cordially invites you and all other men of Jewish faith of the United Stat... More

World War I, Camp Meade, MD, 1917-1918

World War I, Camp Meade, MD, 1917-1918

Description: World War I, Camp Meade, MD, 1917-1918..Date: 1917-1918..Medium: Photograph..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=209872 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=209... More

Soldiers celebrating Hanukah at Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, circa 1917

Soldiers celebrating Hanukah at Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, c...

Description: Soldiers celebrating Hanukah at Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, circa 1917..Medium: Postcard. .Date: ca. 1917..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210016 ( http://digital.cjh.o... More

Hanukah party held for Jewish servicemen..., 1952

Hanukah party held for Jewish servicemen..., 1952

Description: Text on back of photograph: Chanukah party held for Jewish servicemen from the Fleet and the Naval Base. Refreshments and Chanukah cheer provided by the Temple Beth El Sisterhood under auspices of ... More

Chaplain Dicker hands out Hanukah gifts to soldiers in Austria, 1951

Chaplain Dicker hands out Hanukah gifts to soldiers in Austria, 1951

Description: Chaplain Dicker hands out Hanukah gifts to soldiers in Austria, 1951..Medium: Photograph. .Date: 1951..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=211112 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=db... More

The Seder, circa 1943 - A group of men sitting around a long table

The Seder, circa 1943 - A group of men sitting around a long table

Description: The Seder, circa 1943, held in Europe during WWII..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: Circa 1943..Repository: American Jewish Histo... More