Smotri Tovarishch [“Look, Comrade.”] “Anti-Semitism Is Against the Revolution - The Anti-Semite Is Our Class Enemy.”

AUCTION 75 | Thursday, March 08th, 2018 at 1:00 PM
Auction of Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Antiquities, Ceremonial Objects & Graphic Art

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Lot 79
(SOVIET UNION)

Smotri Tovarishch [“Look, Comrade.”] “Anti-Semitism Is Against the Revolution - The Anti-Semite Is Our Class Enemy.”

Designed by Aleksandr Tyshler. 24 x 39 inches (61 x 99.1 cm). Framed.

1928:

Est: $5,000 - $7,000
PRICE REALIZED $10,500
Communist agitprop blaming anti-Semitism on the Czarist regime. A representative group of Russia’s dignitaries and social classes present a bouquet of severed heads. “See, these are the animal-like people who brought anti-Semitism to Czarist Russia. All the class enemies you know: The Czar, the minister, the priest, the landowner, the kulak, the gendarme, the Black Hundreds - they are the organizers of the pogroms and caused the persecution of the Jews.”