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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
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This Hebrew-language poster urges Jews in Palestine to lend a hand to the rescue of Jewish refugees. During World War II, Jewish immigration to Palestine was banned by British Mandate authorities. A…
Contributor:
Gabriel Shamir, Maxim Shamir
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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Anatoly Kaplan’s painting Pakhar’ both commemorates the lost Jewish world of his childhood and reflects accepted Soviet iconography. The Yiddish inscription that frames the central image reads,…
Contributor:
Anatoly Kaplan
Places:
Leningrad, USSR (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1960
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Thus said the editor [megihah], who bursts forth [megi’aḥ] in prostration from his place, and offers his greeting of peace with a bow and while kneeling. His labor is for all those who are wise of…
Contributor:
Seligman Ulma
Places:
Hanau, Holy Roman Empire (Hanau, Germany)
Date:
1610