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The First Habima Theater Audience
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The audience at the first formal performance by the Habima theater troupe in 1918. This set of short plays, Neshef bereshit (A Festival of Our Beginning), was performed in the Moscow Art Theatre under…

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Photographer Unknown

Places:

Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Performing arts, Jewish identity, Modernity, Activism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography, Theater/Drama
Photograph of many people sitting in rows.
Religion Is an Obstacle to the Five-Year Plan
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This poster, designed by an unknown artist, presents in a clear, graphic manner the goal of the Soviet campaign to eradicate religious life. The texts in Yiddish emphasize the need to bring an end to…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

USSR (Russia)

Date:

1923–1933

Subjects:

Print, Education, Economic life, Modernity, Labor

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Poster with man swinging hammer toward hands holding crucifix, Hebrew Bible, and Torah scroll, with captions in Yiddish.