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DESIGNER UNKNOWN. [VOTE FOR SLATE NO. 18.] 1918. 30x20 inches, 76x51 cm.

DESIGNER UNKNOWN [VOTE FOR SLATE NO. 18.] 1918.
30x20 inches, 76x51 cm.
Condition A. Japan.
"Only through your active participation in the elections to the Ukrainian Founding Assembly will you protect your vital economic and national interests. Vote for Slate No. 18." "After centuries of pogroms and persecution by the Ukrainians, the hatred and hostility experienced by Jews in this southwestern area of Russia received a brief respite" beginning in March 1917 (Magnes p. 46). After the Bolshevik Revolution "a secretariat for Jewish affairs was established [in the Ukraine], and a law was passed on personal national autonomy for the national minorities, which included the Jews. The Jewish dreams of equality and minority rights intimated in this poster were short-lived, however. By July 1918 personal national autonomy was abolished, the Jewish ministry was dissolved . . . and Jews once again had to endure anti-Semitic persecutions and massacres" (ibid) Although unsigned, Eileen Battat suggests that the artistic style resembles that of E. M. Lilien. Magnes 15.

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