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Watch – bar mitzvah gift for Hans Falk, 1932.

Stephen Falk and Donald Falk, Point Roberts, Washington, USA

Secular customs, such as holding parties and bringing gifts to the bar mitzvah boy, were increasingly permeating celebrations of this religious tradition. A coveted gift was a watch, like this one, which Hans Falk, grandson of Emanuel Falk, received for his bar mitzvah in 1932.