“Teekent het Joodsche Volks Petitionement” [“Petition on Behalf of the Jewish People.”]

“With the end of the First World War, the question of minority rights became one of the major topics of discussion at the Paris Peace Conference. Jews and sympathetic gentiles in many European nations signed petitions urging both the extension of minority rights to Jews and support for the creation of a British Mandate for Palestine, a move they hoped would lead to the repatriation of the Jewish people to their ancestral home. This poster captures that sentiment by depicting a Jewish refugee looking hopefully toward the horizon at a rising sun over Zion.” See Bernard Museum of Judaica, Temple Emanu-El online exhibition, Justify your Existence: Posters from the Moldovan Family Collection.