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'Hasidic Jews Head Home' - Limited Edition 1 of 15 Photograph

John Crosley

United States

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Size: 24 W x 14.8 H x 0.1 D in

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Update: 8-31-2018, The Jerusalem Post has recently published a report that this year, like last, Conservative Hasidic Jews numbering 40,000 again this year during upcoming Rosh Hashanah Sept .8-11, 2018, will descent on Umann, Ukrainian city of 70,000 South of Kiev, to celebrate the Jewish New Year holiday at the resting place of their sect's founder Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.. In addition with agreement from Ukraine uniformed Israeli police will be in attendance to provide order. Last year two pilgrims on holiday got in an altercation and one stabbed the other. Israelis say Ukraine authorities feel the celebrating pilgrims will respect Israeli uniformed police more than Ukrainian police,so Ukraine endorses the presence of working Israeli police in Uman during Rosh Hashanah, a form of cooperation seldom found in international relations. ******* Original text follows: Hasidic Jews from all over Israel and a few other counties congregated in a rather small Ukrainian town to celebrate their venerated Rabbi Nachman, then, after a week's celebration of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), they headed home. From Wikipedia: 'Nachman from Uman (April 4, 1772 – October 16, 1810), was the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement. These Hasidim are headed home to their various home towns and cities, almost totally in Israel. They are members of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect who speak primarily Yiddish according to authoritative sources and practice a strict tradition-honoring sect which places great emphasis on the Talmud and probably two other historical sources of Jewish thought and teaching. This group, as is traditional with Hasidic Jews included only men and included very young men, 13 and older, who had undergone their Bar Mitzvah marking their coming of age as men. This image, taken one day in 2017 at the end of Rosh Hashanah, (Jewish New Year) shows part of about 4,000 Hasidim men as they moved through Ukraine from Uman (where rabbi Nachman was from) to the Kiev, Ukraine airport just prior to boarding various departures on numerous passenger flights almost entirely to israel. Although the photo shows mostly studious men, as this was taken at a time of prayer and study, the mood among these men was ebullient They spoke of their just-finished celebrations with great gusto and described how they had gathered in Uman, Ukraine to celebrate both the Jewish New Year and Hasidic founder Rabbi Nachman. Traditionally a greatly exclusionary sect of Judaism which mostly dislikes being photographed or mixing much even with other Jews, let alone gentiles, this huge group of men took this photographer, a gentile, into their collective heart and allowed a great number of photos, without significant protest, which generally would have been expected.

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Size:24 W x 14.8 H x 0.1 D in

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I am a photographer who has taken in the past 12 years, over est. 2 million images, mostly street, with many shown previously under various host sites to over est. 200 million counted viewers. I practiced law very successfully in Silicon Valley, CA for nearly two decades; retiring at about age 40. I am a graduate of NYC's Columbia College, Columbia University. As editor/writer/photographer, I won the Lebhar-Friedman Publishing Blue Chip award for excellence in writing, editing, and photography. For law,I won a variety of awards and special recognition. I attended law school in Silicon Valley, graduating with honors and founding my own Silicon Valley law firm, from which I retired in the late 1980s. I have worked side by side with over a half dozen Pulitzer prize-winning photographers, was shot once, and later medically evacuated from Vietnam while photographing the war there. Self-taught in photography, later, among others, I have been mentored by the following: 1. Henri Cartier-Bresson 2. Sal Vader, Pulitzer winner, Associated Press 3. Wes Gallagher, President/Ceo of Associated Press who groomed me to replace him as A.P. head. 4. Sam Walton, Wal-Mart founder who tried to lure me into his smaller company, now the world's largest. retailer. 5. Walter Baring, Peabody award winner, WRVR-FM NYC's premier cultural radio station. 6./ A variety of great photographers, many Pulitzer winners, including many also from Associated Press,/ Many were Vietnam war colleagues from my freelancing the Vietnam war; others from AP NYC world headquarters. I took H C-B's advice: 'Shoot for yourself, John,' to avoid photo work that would require shooting in a special style. not my own. HCB's s generous, helpful advice also resulted in a career with AP wire service as a world news writer and editor, world service, Associated Press world headquarters, NYC. 6. Michel Karman, Lucie Award photo printer and photo exhibition genius. ent in two 'wars' -- the Vietnamese War, and a prisoner of war taken by Russian separatists in the current Ukrainian--Russian Separatist battles that killed over 10,000 and displaced over 1 million. While writing and as a worldwide photo editor for Associated Press, I was asked to understudy their CEO (worldwide General Manager), to become successor general manager on his retirement, but declined the position. I live the lifestyle of a photographer and am proud of it.

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