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Purim Shpiel Cast Picture, 1940

A black-and-white photograph of a group of children in costume for a play.

Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives.

The cast picture for the 1940 Purim Shpiel “A Merry Happy Purim”. Purim shpiels are plays or skits that are performed on the Jewish Holiday of Purim, and that typically playing satirize the story of the Scroll of Esther.