Di Groise Mapeh fun der Milchoma Tzuvishen Russland mit Yapanian

Yiddish poster depicting the geographical dimensions of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Depicted are the regions of Siberia, Manchuria, Mongolia, Japan and Korea; with detailed insert of the Russian naval squadron at Port Arthur where the war first began. The Russo-Japanese War resulted in a victorious Japan that forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East. The war had profound consequences on the social conditions of the Jews in Russia, and subsequently on their ever-increasing pace of emigration due to civil unrest folowing the Revolution of 1905, the rise of agressive Russian nationalism and sharp increase in bloody anti-Semitic pogroms