Featured NICE JEWISH PAINTING SIGNED IN HEBREW - ANYONE KNOW ARTIST?

Got this today for only $5 at thrift store! I thought it was good enough (has a folk art feel to it, right?) that the artist would be known (and $5 was worth the gamble!) - but I don't know how to google a name written in Hebrew/Yiddish (or do you only talk Yiddish?)
Any help would be appreciated.
PS - Good painting?

 

I'm sure I'm leaving out others who would know, but I'm tagging @komokwa.

 

it's nice enuf.......but...
the 3 boys together is awkward in size..and the women would have been separated from the men folk...

Kritzky Alksnabr...............????

 

Maybe fix the title so thread will be easier to find in future?

 

If you can figure out what the letters are (remember to work right to left) you can type them here, then use a translation program to transliterate:

https://www.branah.com/hebrew

 

That is cool Bronwen. I did not know of that link. Not that I speak Hebrew.
I concur with Komo's thoughts.

 

It's definitely a "Sunday Painter" type person. I think he's depicting a ceremony from Rosh Hashanah when the congregation goes and pitches bread into body of water to symbolize throwing away their sins for the year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashlikh

 

Then I like that the ducks are coming to eat the bread.

 

Sin Eaters!(LOL) (for those who've run into that obscure Christian religious practice ... it's kinda backwoods)

 

with Bronwens help........Christie Alexander............. is more plausible ...

 

I thought Kritzky Alksnabr had a nice ring to it, once I managed to pronounce it.

 

I don't know anything about this piece, but I just wanted to say thank you for posting the back!!!

 

Nice reference.
"A sin-eater is a person who consumes a ritual meal in order to spiritually take on the sins of a deceased person. The food was believed to absorb the sins of a recently dead person, thus absolving the soul of the person."

 

Alexander Kriztki / Kriztky.

 

where's the tav....T.....

 

oops it's my dyslexic hitting me - it should be tz not zk -! so its Alexander Kritzky

can't find much about him in Hebrew or English - there a gallery that sells a few of his images and one auction site with one that was asking $100 but was left unsold.

http://www.moreshet-auctions.com/oil-on-cloth-a-jewish-child-signed

 

That's what I was thinking......OK !
4 a moment....ya had me going....