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Postcard from Munkács (then Hungary, now Ukraine) with a hassidic man

From the collection of the Museum of Ethnography

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Shavua Tov

Blessings for a good week, a safe and peaceful week, and may all the plans of our enemies fail.

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From “Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance” (1922), a set of 30 lithographs by the Jewish artist Issachar Ber Ryback. In the series Ryback depicts scenes from his home village in Ukraine before it was destroyed in the pogroms following WW1. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shtetl-my-destroyed-home-a-remembrance-1922

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Fuck cottagecore we’re doing shtetlcore now. Our hands brush as we braid the challah

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The comprehensive Yiddish/English dictionary suggests “dibek” (dibuk) as a modern Yiddish word for a computer virus

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The Kabbalist by Isidor Kaufmann (1853-1921). Jewish Museum, Manhattan.

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Have a good and sweet 5786 🍯

Watercolour, ballpoint pen, pencil

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The Song of Songs / שיר השירים, Illustrated by Zeev Raban (1890 - 1970). Hebrew and English. Bound in Bezalel leather cover with a copper relief of queen of Sheba. Published by Shulammite, circa 1950. 30 pages. Approximately 24 x 34 cm. x

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Praying Jews. By Mojżesz (Moshe) Ryniecki (1881-1943). Source.

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Faye Schulman in a forest in Poland, c. 1943/1944.

Schulman (born Faigel Lazebnik; November 28, 1919 – April 24, 2021) was a Jewish partisan, photographer, Holocaust survivor, and brigade member. She is widely considered to be the only Jewish partisan photographer who was able to capture the struggle Jews went through during World War II.

From 1942 to 1945, she took over 100 haunting photographs of the Holocaust and resistance fighters — even being forced by the Nazis to take one of massacred Jews, which among the victims included her parents and siblings. After this occurrence, she was determined to document the atrocities that the Germans inflicted, and later on was able to use these photos against them.

After the war ended in 1945, Schulman immigrated to Canada with her husband; released a memoir; was decorated by the Soviet/Belarusian, American, and Canadian governments; and lived another 76 years, peacefully dying at the age of 101.

"I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof." – Faye Schulman.