Unfolding "Shanah Tovah" card, with portraits of Jewish and Zionist figures, as well as American political and military personalities, and with a picture showing all the many participants in the First Zionist Congress. New York: Yehuda Katzenellenbogen (Judah Meyer Katzenellenbogen, among the founders of the Hebrew Publishing Company), [1899].
The card's exterior is made of gold embossed paper. On either side is an illustration of a hand offering a greeting card and flowers. The card is divided into a number of unfolding sections, with each face opening in several directions, inside and out, resembling a window with numerous wings folded over each other. In the interior sections there are New Year greetings in Hebrew, English, German, and Russian (including a rhymed Hebrew greeting for the Hebrew year 5660 – 1899), and numerous portrait photographs and drawings of characters and personalities from Jewish history, as well as rabbis and Zionist figures. The depicted individuals include Moses, Aaron, the Gaon of Vilna, Baruch Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Spector, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Sir Moses Montefiore, the Baron Maurice de Hirsch, the Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Alfred Dreyfus, Émile Zola, and many others. One particular face bears the portraits of all the representatives participating in the First Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland in 1897.
Other pictures include a group photo of the students and staff of the Jaffa Boys' School; a print showing Yom Kippur services at an army camp near the city of Metz, France; portraits of prominent Jewish Rabbis; an illustration of the Western Wall; and a host of other images.
Interspersed among all these items pertaining to the Jewish world are portraits of non-Jewish figures such as George Washington, Christopher Columbus, US President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt (who was Governor of New York State at the time), and Admirals George Dewey and William T. Sampson. There is also a picture of the USS "Maine." The margins of the greeting card are adorned with red fringes.
In folded state: 12X9 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Minor tears and stains.

Lithographed "Shanah Tovah" greeting card, with views of the Temple site, Rishon LeZion and Rechovot. Frankfurt: Rosenblatt, [late 19th or early 20th century].
Elegant greeting card, with two folding flaps. Decorated with views of the Temple site, Rishon LeZion and Rechovot. Flaps inscribed with the German greeting: "Glück und Segen zum Neuen Jahre"; greeting in Hebrew in center of card: "Everyone inscribed for life in Jerusalem / May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year!". With inked stamp of the artist Yosef Zvi Geiger of Safed.
12X10.5 cm (folded). Good-fair condition. Stains and creases. Tears along folds. Pen inscriptions. Abrasions on verso.

Four "Shanah Tovah" postcards. Warsaw and New York: Reznik, [1920s].
Postcards depicting scenes from Jewish life, and various imaginary scenes: "in the cinema", "Kiddush", a porter carrying presents for the new year (including "lands in Eretz Israel"), and the Messiah riding a white donkey, carrying "salvation and consolation". Three of the postcards feature rhymed Yiddish greetings; all four were sent from São Paulo in the 1920s and 1930s (no postmarks).
14X9 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes.