Poster calling for a general public fast, organized by the Rabbanim Sefardim v’Ashkenazim of the Karta Kadisha d’Yerushalayim for the suffering and persecution experienced by Russian Jewry at the end of WWI. Stamped using the official stamps of the Badatz Sefardim and Badatz Ashkenazim.
Background: At the end of the First World War, many pogroms took place throughout the countries of Poland, Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, events in which tens of thousands of Jews were killed by all the armies that were in the area—the White Army, the Polish army, and especially the Ukrainian soldiers of Simon Petliura, named after them the "Pra’ot Petliura" (Petliura Riots).
In the poster before us, the rabbis write “The voice of our people from a distant land…a mass of adults and children of God’s people in the Russian, Polish, Lithuanian exile, amidst a great misfortune, our brothers’ blood cries out to us from these countries.”
The poster is signed with the original, round stamps of the Beit Din Eidat Sfardim and Beit Din Eidat Ashekanzim, a unique phenomenon in the world of krazot.
Extremely rare—not held by the National Library nor in the Taklitor Mifal Bibliographia.
31x47cm. Creases, tear without missing text, good condition.
