Propaganda Poster Issued by the OZET Organization – Moscow, 1928

Propaganda Poster Issued by the OZET Organization – Moscow, 1928
Nor in Rotnland Yiden Gehort dos Recht of Arbet un of Erd [Only in the Soviet Union do Jews Have the Right to Land and Labor], propaganda poster issued by the OZET Organization. Moscow: OZET, 1928. Illustration: Lev Moiseevich Smekhov (Лев Моисеевич Смехов). Yiddish.
Propaganda poster issued by OZET (Society for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land). The poster depicts, in a series of illustrations, the improvement in the condition of Russian Jews following the founding of the Soviet Union and the decision to retrain Jews in agricultural professions. The illustrations depict the poverty and pogroms in the Jewish community, the meeting in which the resolution was adopted to provide land to Jews, and finally the positive consequences of agricultural work for the Jewish community. The illustrations by Russian artist Lev Moiseevich Smekhov (1908-1978) are accompanied by a rhymed text by Y. Slonim.
In the same year, an identical poster was printed with the same text in Russian (see "Kedem" catalog 56, item 260).
The OZET organization was active in the Soviet Union in the years 1925-1938, with the aim of encouraging agricultural settlement among Soviet Jews and finding suitable places for such settlements. In 1928, OZET took upon itself the enterprise of settling Jews in Birobidzhan.
Approx. 102X65.5 cm. Good condition. Some tears to edges, restored. Linen-backed for display and preservation.