Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Poster – Support for the Jewish Settlement of Birobidzhan – U.S.A, 1930s

Opening: $300
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"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.A, 1930s]. Yiddish.
Advertising poster for an event on behalf of ICOR, in support of the Jewish settlement of Birobidzhan. The 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 – are printed 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. Fold lines and creases. Tears (some of them open), professionally restored. Linen-backed for display and preservation.
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