Joseph Magrill (artist), Pinkas Moshav Zekaynim (Register of the Home for the Aged). Cincinnati, Ohio, 1914.

Cincinnati Home for the Aged

American flags top two columns labeled "Zion" (in Hebrew) on this illustrated cover of the register of the Home for the Aged, established in 1914 by "Cincinnati's Orthodox women." On this illustrated title page an elderly couple walks between the columns, he with a cane, she leaning on him for support. Above their heads is a banner with the legend, "Do not cast us out in old age, when our strength fails us, do not abandon us," a variant of Psalm 71:9 that forms part of the Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] liturgy.