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Memories
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I. I must revive the experiences of the revolutionary path traversed in order to share memories and knowledge with workers and the younger generation. They want and need to have an…

Contributor:

A. Beilin

Places:

Mstsislavl, USSR (Mscislau, Belarus)

Date:

1929

Subjects:

Adolescence, Education, Passover, Cities, Labor

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
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.