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Tekhine imohos (Women’s Supplication of the Matriarchs)
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Riboyne shel oylem, Almighty God, You created heaven and earth and all creatures with great compassion within six days and with only ten words. And on the seventh day, which is shabes koydesh, You…

Contributor:

Leah Horowitz

Places:

Glogau, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Głogów, Poland)

Date:

Mid–18th Century

Subjects:

Women, Holidays, Sabbath, Rosh Ḥodesh, Piety

Categories:

Theology
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:

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.