Mishloach Manot… 5701
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Philip and Janet Levin Foundation Family Fund.
Acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020. The acquisition of this artifact was made possible by The Philip and Janet Levin Foundation Family Fund.
Scope and Content
"Mishloach Manot… 5701" (Hebrew), a handwritten booklet made for the festival of Purim and presented to the head of the Lodz Ghetto Judenrat, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. [Lodz], 1941. The booklet, presumably made by a resident of the Lodz Ghetto, contains several word plays in the spirit of Purim: the author's name (Ya'akov Brickman) encoded within a verse written on the title page; seven blessings arranged in the form of a star of David; an acrostic poem with the first letters of the lines spelling the Hebrew name "Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski". An inscription on the title page reads "From the yeshiva students, [?]irska 43/45." [4] leaves (two sheets folded in half, stapled to form a booklet). Approx. 30.5 cm.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Subjects
- Lodz (Poland)
Genre
- Pamphlets.
- Document