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The Fire Came and Burnt the Stick
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This graphic depiction of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Tale of a Goat”) juxtaposes the collective memory of the exodus from Egypt with Soviet revolutionary art and politics.

Contributor:

El Lissitzky

Places:

Vitebsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Vitebsk, Belarus)

Date:

1919

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Animals

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art
Lithograph on paper of building on the left and a large bird grabbing a stick of fire with beak, with Yiddish text along top of image and Aramaic on bottom.
Silver Purim Cup
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On this silver Purim cup from Augsburg, Germany, a quotation from the Talmud (b. Megillah 7b) inscribed around the rim advises its bearer to drink in celebration of Purim until unable to distinguish…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire (Augsburg, Germany)

Date:

ca. 1690

Subjects:

Holidays, Purim, Food and drink, Humor, Folklore

Categories:

Ritual Objects, Decorative arts
Silver cup engraved with a person in profile wearing a jester hat drinking out of a barrel.