This turn-of-the-century Rosh HaShanah card goes hard. The Old Year struggles in the water while the New Year stands on the shore, and a Yiddish inscription urging the old year to "drown forever already" - ThreadSky

jessemlocker.bsky.social • 167 days ago

This turn-of-the-century Rosh HaShanah card goes hard. The Old Year struggles in the water while the New Year stands on the shore, and a Yiddish inscription urging the old year to "drown forever already"

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abhorrentabby.bsky.social•167 days ago

"The old year is drowning"
"This aint about him"

adambonin.bsky.social•167 days ago

I ran it through Google Translate.

ajlevin.bsky.social•155 days ago

Not bad for machine translation. A few simple errors:

"Ross old year" should read "the old year"

"No year" should read "New year"

and the header adds a superfluous "to a"

ajlevin.bsky.social•155 days ago

Sorry, "for a"

nafnlaus.bsky.social•167 days ago

Holiday cards used to go hard in general. For example, for a period, Victorian Christmas cards commonly featured dead birds.

nafnlaus.bsky.social•167 days ago

"Turning the tables" was another common theme. And just general morbid weirdness.

smotus.bsky.social•167 days ago

“Let the past die. Kill it if you have to.”
-Maimonides

naomialderman.bsky.social•167 days ago

I would love to know more about where it comes from! It feels like it has some “votes for women” and “enough of the Rebbes” going on there too.

jessemlocker.bsky.social•167 days ago

I have a bunch of these saved and can't remember where I found this one! There's something not super useful about it here https://education-en.nli.org.il/poster-competition/old-year-be-gone

naomialderman.bsky.social•166 days ago

thank you so much! looks like this is probably the guy who made it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Goldberg_(Haggai)

jessemlocker.bsky.social•166 days ago

Interesting! So it must be from 1912 or later (and horrible that he died in the Warsaw Ghetto.)

jessemlocker.bsky.social•166 days ago

*Białystok Ghetto

naomialderman.bsky.social•166 days ago

it's very "let's have more Zionism (the flowers) and votes for women, and get away from these awful Rebbes who should literally get into the sea"

torshi.bsky.social•167 days ago

This is the sentiment I try to take into the new year

librarian.bsky.social•167 days ago

I'm sure this one is missing something in translation. A few more weirdie public domain ones (and some normal ones) here.

https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=Rosh+HaShanah&is_commons=true&view_all=1

jessemlocker.bsky.social•167 days ago

I think they just made that translation up

joshuaraclaw.com•167 days ago

Confirming it’s just made up!

joshuaraclaw.com•167 days ago

“Here you see the stars of the new year!” etc.

not-on-display.bsky.social•167 days ago

They got close... "L’Shanah Tovah tikatevu" means "May you be inscribed for a good year." (i.e. in the book of life.) But the rest is utter GoobleBranflake

not-on-display.bsky.social•167 days ago

...actually, correcting myself: the rest of the card, in Yiddish, GooberTransgate came close to it. And yeah, the OP's card does seem to be a poem from the woman imploring the old man to sink faster! My Aleph-Bet is rusty though.