“Shpeyz Vet Gevenen die Krieg!” [“Food Will Win the War!”].

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA)

New York

(1917)

Yiddish text. Lithographed poster by Charles Edward Chambers (1883-1941).

This poster issued by the United States Food Administration engages in moral exhortation, intimating to newly-naturalized citizens that the way to repay America for its welcome-mat, is by supporting the Allies in the war effort: “You Came Here to Find Freedom, Now You Must Help Defend it. We Must Supply the Allies With Wheat. Waste Nothing.” See Judah L. Magnes Museum Catalogue, Witnesses to History: The Jewish Poster (1989) p. 16.