- Object Name:
- New Year Greeting
- Publisher:
- Hebrew Publishing Company
- Bio:
- 1901-present
- Place Made:
- Germany
- Date:
- 1901-38
- Medium:
- Paper: printed with ink
- Dimensions:
- 3 1/8 × 8 1/2 in. (7.9 × 21.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Porder Family in memory of Mildred Milch
- Accession Number:
- 1997-22.1-100
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Sending New Year greetings is an old Jewish custom. With the rise of modern manufacturing in the late 19th and early 20th century, greeting cards were produced commercially. Prior to 1939, the Hebrew Publishing Company of New York had its greeting cards printed in Germany, a major manufacturer of this type of material before World War II. Cards in this design, imitating a bank check, were bundled in groups like money.
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