Lot 264
Poster - Support for the Jewish Settlement of Birobidzhan - U.S., 1930s
"ICOR Kontzert un Lektzie", advertising poster for a performance and lectures by the ICOR organization ("Yiddishe Colonizatzie in Roten Farband" - an American organization supporting Jewish settlement in the Soviet Union). No printer or year indicated. [U.S., 1930s]. Yiddish.
Advertising poster for an event on behalf of the "ICOR" organization, in support of the Jewish settlement of Birobidzhan. Details of the event - lectures by "ICOR" representatives Sh. [Shloime] Almazov and Av. [Avraham] Epstein, and a performance by theater actors H. Gendel and Lyova Rimer - appear alongside photographs of the actor and actress and a photograph of tractor drivers in Birobidzhan. Printed in Yiddish at the top of the poster: "For dem oyfboy fon Birobidzhan als Iddishe Soveten Republic" [For the establishment of Birobidzhan as a Jewish Soviet republic].
71.5X53 cm. Good-fair condition. Folding marks and creases. Open tears, professionally repaired. Linen-backed for display and preservation.
