H. Lurye. Shabes. Vos men zogt vegn im un fun vanen er hot zich in der emesn genumen [“The Sabbath. What people say about it and from whence it in fact originated.”]

(RUSSIA)

Odessa

1922

Yiddish text (as per Communist orthography).

Anti-religious tract by Hirsch-Shmuel Lurye (1878-1937), a leading figure of the Yevsektsia. “The Communist Party and its Jewish Sections regarded the values and institutions of the Jewish community as so alien to Marxist ideology and to the new society that was to be based on it that they were determined to eradicate them as soon as possible.” See Z. Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union 1881 to the Present (1988) p.108.