Poster with a light colored background, text-only in Yiddish, printed with black ink.

Poster: “Protest meeting against pogroms in Ukraine”

Vilna, Poland, undated. Poster.

Poster announcing a Zeirei Zion protest meeting to protest the pogroms in Ukraine on October 14th (1919). Zeirei Zion (“Zionist Youth”) was a Socialist-Zionist youth movement that was a precursor to the Israeli Labor Party. Full translation below:

People’s Faction

“TSEIREI-TSION/ZIONIST YOUTH”

On the 4Th Day of Sukkot/October 14 there will take place in

KRENGEL’S HALL

A PROTEST-MEETING

against the

POGROMS in UKRAINE

Start time 7 PM, Admission 50 Groszy

Digitization of this artifact has been made possible by the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project.

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