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Der pinkes (cover)
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Der pinkes (The Book of Records, or The Annals) appropriated the term for the old-fashioned record book of a Jewish community or institution to name a very new phenomenon: the first “annual for the…

Contributor:

Shmuel Niger

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Scholarship, Jewish identity, Yiddish, Cities, Education

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy
Page with Yiddish text and simple decorated border.
A Fragment of the Altar of a Synagogue in Mariampol
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The Torah ark in the synagogue of Mariampol was surmounted by tablets of the law flanked by rampant lions and topped with a crown, with hands making the priestly blessing. After World War II, Soviet…

Contributor:

Valerii Rybarskii

Places:

Marijampole, Russian Empire (Marijampole, Lithuania)

Date:

1902

Subjects:

Synagogue, Jewish identity, Piety, Ritual object, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Sculpture
Photograph of wooden structure with two small columns of Hebrew writing with crown on top, and two sculped lions on either side.
Protest at the Funeral of Anti-Tsarist Revolutionaries
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This postcard was printed by the Bund to commemorate the death of a worker, Kagan (Kohen), who was arrested in Mozir (today, Mazyr, Belarus) in the midst of one of the numerous protests against the…

Contributor:

Photographer Unknown

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Politics, Art, Photography, Resistance

Categories:

Political Culture, Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph depicting a crowd of people holding a long ribbon with Russian text on it.