Shpeiz Vet Gevinen di Krieg! [Food Will Win the War!]. Yiddish text

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

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

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Lot 298

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA). Charles Edward Chambers (1883-1941).

Shpeiz Vet Gevinen di Krieg! [Food Will Win the War!]. Yiddish text

Lthograph poster. Laid down 30 x 20 inches

New York (1918):

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,900

This poster, issued by the United States Food Administration, engages in moral exhortation, intimating to naturalized citizens that the way to repay America for its kindness is by supporting the Allies in the war effort: "You come here to find freedom. Now you must help to defend it. We must supply the Allies with wheat. Do not let anything go to waste." See Judah L. Magnes Museum Catalogue, Witnesses to History: The Jewish Poster (1989) p. 16