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://t.co/qJkYdfBj27

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Meir Akselrod designs for the 1936 Kiev GOSET production of "Boitre the Robber" by Moyshe Kulbak, a play about a Jewish robin hood who defends the poor and restores justice in the shtetl
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Jewish Shtetl Wanderer, 1977

Aquarell by Eugene Yavgeni Abeshaus
Russian | 1939 - 2008

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Shavua Tov 💙🔯💙 - from the Shtetl scenes - by Eliezer Shulman.

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Besides being a nod to Breath of Fire 1/3, there’s an obvious Jewish allegory.

I’m not saying Dologaniy is “a shtetl in the desert”, in the same way I’m not saying certain arcs represent mental health or trans topics. But if you’re looking for parallels, they’re in there!

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My cover is SOOO close. Getting the back + spine done asap by a pro because the cover creator in has its limitations. I am almost...there...!

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Issachar Ber Ryback illustrations. Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance. Most of the lithographs done in 1917. He was truly at the fore of the Yiddish avant-garde.

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Shtetl life by Chagall (1917) - two tales in verse composed by Pinchus Kahanovich, a Yiddish author, philosopher, translator and critic known as "Der Nister" [The Hidden One]

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Shtetl life by Chagall, who combines Modernist elements with traditional Jewish iconography - 'faux naif' - a Yiddish book from 1917

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"From Jewish Life in a Shtetl "

By Simon Karczmar, (1902 Warsaw - 1982 Safed)

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" Jewish Life in Shtetl "

by Nathan Gutman, Jewish painter, born 1914 in Warsaw - died 1990 in Paris.

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" Winter in the Shtetl " ( Kazimierz at Vistula )

By Chaim Goldberg, born 1917 in Kazimierz Dolny - died 2004 in Florida.

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In shtetl Varena - polish - Orany in Lithuania , ca. 1920

( Yad Vashem )

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"True education makes for inequality; the inequality of " , 1965 ( Felix E. Schelling.)

Harry Lieberman,born in 1876 in a small shtetl Gnieveshev, Poland. Nephew of a Hassidic rabbi, he prepared for the rabbinate, but forsook that career, and emigrated to the US in 1906.

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THE DREAM, 1950

Emmanuel Mané-Katz , born Mane Leyzerovich Kats (1894–1962 Tel-Aviv ), was a Litvak painter born in Kremenchuk, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe.

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