Sickle and Hammer, Number 2

Description:

Sickle and Hammer is the newsletter of the Hirsh Lekert Shuln (Schools), of the Umpartayishe Yidisher Kinder Shuln. Number Two. 1929 Detroit. Monthly, published by the children of the Hirsh Lekert Children's School Number 1. The vivid hammer and sickle graphic on the cover is rendered in a Deco mechanical cartoon style showings a young man (with a ziz-zag depicting his neck) grasping a sickle that is literally holding up the letters from the word Serf (sickle) in Yiddish. The children's essays range from the overtly political, including a discussion of the IWO, to essays about pets, and biographical sketches of the write Y.L. Peretz. The cover shows the stamp of Kalman Marmor.

Date:

1929-05

Copyright:

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Creator:

Hirsh Lekert Schools

File Name:

5276b50f03_03

Identifier:

International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 50, Folder 3

Repository:

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University