This is a card designed for the Jewish New Year which was created in Germany in 1909. According to the information on the back of the postcard, it was sent from Thessaloniki to Constantinople.
The picture shows a golden eagle holding a golden Magen David with the Two Tablets with the Ten Commandments. The eagle is also holding two flags in his beak, one reads the “Flag of Israel” and the other the “Flag of Judea,” although the Hebrew spelling is incorrect, since the biblical name of Judea is spelled יהודה whereas the map has יחורא.
The eagle hovers over a wall with two towers or huts, four trees, and a domed building, probably an illustration of Jerusalem. The text that is written in the two gates of the wall is the beginning of the biblical verse: “As an eagle that stirs up her nest, hovers over her young, spreads forth her wings, takes them, and bears them on her pinions” (Deuteronomy 32:11). This verse is from Moses’ speech to the Israelites upon entering the Promised Land in the Parashah (Torah portion) of Ha’Azinu. In the speech God is depicted as an eagle hovering over his people and taking care of them.
Discussion Questions
Observation
Reading Between the Lines
Connections
Creative Ideas
This is a card designed for the Jewish New Year which was created in Germany in 1909. According to the information on the back of the postcard, it was sent from Thessaloniki to Constantinople.
The picture shows a golden eagle holding a golden Magen David with the Two Tablets with the Ten Commandments. The eagle is also holding two flags in his beak, one reads the “Flag of Israel” and the other the “Flag of Judea,” although the Hebrew spelling is incorrect, since the biblical name of Judea is spelled יהודה whereas the map has יחורא.
The eagle hovers over a wall with two towers or huts, four trees, and a domed building, probably an illustration of Jerusalem. The text that is written in the two gates of the wall is the beginning of the biblical verse: “As an eagle that stirs up her nest, hovers over her young, spreads forth her wings, takes them, and bears them on her pinions” (Deuteronomy 32:11). This verse is from Moses’ speech to the Israelites upon entering the Promised Land in the Parashah (Torah portion) of Ha’Azinu. In the speech God is depicted as an eagle hovering over his people and taking care of them.
Discussion Questions
Observation
Reading Between the Lines
Connections
Creative Ideas
Joseph and Margit Hoffman Judaica Postcard Collection , Folklore Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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