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Silent prayers

Caption: "Silent prayers--Services at the Hebrew Educational Society, Hopkinson and Sutter Aves., were conducted in sign language by this woman and these three men, all deaf. The Hebrew Society for the Deaf arranged the ceremonies;" there are two other men in the photograph and all five are wearing prayer shawls.

IMAGE DATE1941
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