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“The Spirit,” June 2, 1940
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The Spirit was launched in 1940 as a special supplement for newspapers, designed to help them compete with the crime and superhero comic magazines, which were then wildly popular. It ran as a…

Contributor:

Will Eisner

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Date:

1940

Subjects:

Comics, Print, Education, Humor, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Newstrip comic with two rows of headings across the top, and two rows of three comic panels each with image and English text in bubbles, featuring man in suit speaking to another man in an office.
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.
Synagogue Judaica
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This is the frontispiece of a 1661 edition of Synagoga Judaica, a study of the customs and culture of German Jewry by Christian Hebraist, and polemical critic of Judaism, Johannes Buxtorf the Elder…

Contributor:

Johannes Buxtorf

Places:

Basel, Switzerland

Date:

1661

Subjects:

Print, Christian-Jewish relations, Education, Circumcision, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Printed page with Latin text in the center, surrounded by two images, the top of people sitting in front of a teacher and board with Hebrew letters on it, and the bottom of men sitting around a baby.