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Le grand Rabbin aumônier Abraham Bloch (The Chief Rabbi Chaplain Abraham Bloch)
Rabbi Abraham Bloch was a French army chaplain, killed in 1914 while holding a crucifix for a dying Catholic soldier. In 1934 the French government erected a monument in his memory at the spot where…
Sikhes-khulin (Small Talk, or, The Legend of Prague)
Cover of Sikhes-khulin: Eyne fun di geshikhtn (Small Talk, or, The Legend of Prague) by Moyshe Broderzon, with illustrations by El Lissitzky. The book is an example of a new modernist style that…
Ḥad Gadya, Gekoyft der tate far tsvey gilden eyn tsigele (Father Bought a Kid for Two Zuzim)
Ḥad Gadya (One Little Goat) is a song customarily sung at the end of the Passover seder. It recounts a sequence of events beginning with a young goat purchased by the protagonist’s father that is then…
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Issachar Ber Ryback painted Pogrom during the Russian Civil War, when waves of pogroms were occurring in Ukraine and other areas in the former Pale of Settlement. In the foreground a slain man…
Sleeping Beauty
In Alexander Tyshler’s illustration for a Yiddish version of the Sleeping Beauty story, characters seated around a table are packed together like puzzle pieces, enclosed in a rectangular shape from…
Adam and Eve
David Yakerson’s Adam and Eve dates from a time before his turn to the much more abstract style of suprematism. In this illustration, Adam and Eve blend in with other decorative elements in a…