A poster from the Hatzvi organization – Histadrut Tzeirei Bnei HaYeshivot Yerushalayim, pointing to desecration of the Shabbat in the holy city of Jerusalem and the consumption of non-kosher food as the cause for the murder of millions by the Nazis and for pogroms against the Jews throughout the diaspora. Itnach printing press. Jerusalem, beginning of the 1940’s.
“Who subjected Jacob to plunder and Israel to spoilers?! Who is guilty for the sighs and pleadings of millions of our Jewish brethren under the yoke of the evil Nazi Hitler regime: hundreds of thousands in the Old Reich – Germany, hundreds of thousands in Austria, hundreds of thousands in Czechoslovakia and millions in Poland?!… Who is guilty for the blood of our Jewish brethren being spilled like water?! The abandonment of the Holy Shabbat, especially in Jerusalem! This is the reason for the lot of millions of our Jewish brethren who are suffering indescribable suffering… and these two desecrations – that of the Holy Shabbat – the soul of Judaism, and of the Jewish body – consuming non-kosher food, are the primary reasons for the blood of our Jewish brethren being spilled like water…”
Size: 47×31 cm.
Very fine condition.