“3 Million Will Win The Third OZET Lottery.”

AUCTION 76 | Thursday, June 14th, 2018 at 3:00 PM

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 370

(SOVIET UNION)

“3 Million Will Win The Third OZET Lottery.”

Text in Russian (with one word in Yiddish). Depicting happy, toiling workers and children, with a map of Birobidzhan in the background. Linen-backed. 29 x 41.5 inches (74 x 105 cm).

-1930:

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

OZET, the Society for Settling Working Jews on the Land, was a government body that encouraged Jews to settle on agricultural communes. The best known OZET-sponsored project was the creation of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, located in the Russian Far East.