Auction 56 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Anti-Semitic Poster - Russia, 1920s

Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Самый старый из богов [The Oldest of the Gods], illustrated anti-Semitic poster. Published by the atheist journal Безбожник у станка (Bezbozhnik u Stanka). [Moscow, 1920s]. Deisgn: Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov. Signed in the plate - "D. Moor". Russian.
Caricature depicting the Jewish God - a one-eyed figure wearing a tallit and phylacteries, holding the Tablets of the Law and seated atop a treasure chest, with a Jew in its lap. Printed beneath the caricature is an anti-Semitic Russian text that connects Judaism with capitalism.
Approx. 69X51.5 cm. Good condition. Numerous creases. Stain to top right corner. A number of small tears. Slightly cut on margins. Mounted on old linen cloth.
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah, Jewish Brigade
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah, Jewish Brigade