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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:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Poster with man swinging hammer toward hands holding crucifix, Hebrew Bible, and Torah scroll, with captions in Yiddish.
Jewish Merchant (Mercante Giudeo)
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This depiction of a Jewish merchant is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have also done his own illustrations. Considered at the time a key source of…

Contributor:

Nicolas de Nicolay

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1585

Subjects:

Print, Dress, Class, Economic life, Ethnography

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Full body drawing of man in turban with textiles folded over left arm and right hand in pocket.
Jewish Robbers
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This engraving depicting “Jewish robbers” is from the book Des bekannten Diebes, Mörders und Räubers Lips Tullians, und seiner Complicen Leben und Ubelthaten (The Known Thief, Murderer, and Robber…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Dresden, Holy Roman Empire (Dresden, Germany)

Date:

1716

Subjects:

Print, Crime, Economic life, Profession, Poverty

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Drawing of men in fetters arranged in a line, some with ropes around their necks, and German text above.