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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:

Visual & Material Culture, 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.
The dedication page for Charles VI and his wife, Elizabeth Christina
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This dedication page made by Meshulam Zimmel for Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (1711–1740) and his wife, Elizabeth Christina (1691–1750), whose portraits appear on the page, presents three versions of…

Contributor:

Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna

Date:

1733

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Government

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Printed page with three columns of Hebrew, German in Hebrew characters, Latin, and Aramaic text in various fonts and sizes, interspersed with small portraits of a man and a woman, and surrounded by decorative border.