“Only in Russia do Jews have the Right to Work the Land.”

(SOVIET UNION).

Moscow, 1928

Yiddish text by Y. Slonim.

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Graphic poster with panels captioned in rhyme, depicting: The economic shortcomings of Jewish life before the rise of the Soviet Union, the sufferings of Jews in pogroms, the Soviet authorities deciding to give the Jews land to improve their situation (central oval), Jews being settled on farming colonies and calling upon all luft-mentschen (lit., air-people, those without a fixed occupation) to work the land “in the free air.” Issued by OZET - The All-Union Association for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers in the USSR (“Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Zemel’nomu Ustroistvu Trudiashchikhsia Evreev v SSSR.”).