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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.
Simḥat Torah Flag
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Flags like this, made of paper, decorated, and attached to a stick—sometimes with an apple and a small lit candle atop it—were commonly carried by children during Simḥat Torah celebrations. The…

Contributor:

S. M. Sochora

Places:

Bobruisk, Russian Empire (Babruysk, Belarus)

Date:

1902

Subjects:

Art, Holidays, Simḥat Torah, Zionism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects, Print & Book Culture
Lithograph with Hebrew title, two portraits of men on either side of Hebrew text, and drawings of figures holding flags along the bottom.
Czernowitz Conference Speech: On National Education
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Signs of a new spirit among certain circles of the Jewish intelligentsia can be detected even in the private sphere, within the four walls of their homes. It happens—admittedly, not very often, but…

Contributor:

Esther Frumkina

Places:

Minsk, Russian Empire (Minsk, Belarus)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Education, Children, Holidays, Jewish identity, Class

Categories:

Political Culture, Speeches