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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:

Cartooning & graphic art
Poster with man swinging hammer toward hands holding crucifix, Hebrew Bible, and Torah scroll, with captions in Yiddish.
The Scholar, the Laborer, and the Toiler of the Soil
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Maurice Ascalon, sometimes called the father of modern Israeli decorative arts, was commissioned to create this sculpture for the façade of the Palestine Pavilion of the 1939 New York World’s Fair…

Contributor:

Maurice Ascalon

Places:

Mandate Palestine (Palestine)

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Education, Labor, Aesthetics, Politics

Categories:

Sculpture, Decorative arts
Copper relief sculpture depicting three hooded men. The one on the left holds a scroll and has a long beard, the middle holds a hammer, and the right holds a hand plow and has a short beard.