Soviet Yiddish propaganda poster “Subscribe to ‘Emes’,” 1920s

The poster - “Abonir zikh afn ‘Emes’” in original Yiddish - promoted subscription campaign of the Soviet Bolshevik party-sponsored Yiddish newspaper “Emes” (“The Truth”). The title imitated the main party organ’s title “Pravda” published in Russian. The poster depicts the newspaper’s title shaped as to resemble the Kremlin wall, perhaps, thus emphasizing the publication’s firm official position. T…