Tsar Alexander III as a Yom Kippur sacrifice, Max Sande, Nyu-Yorker Yidisher Folkstsaytung, New York
Tsar Alexander III as a Yom Kippur sacrifice, Max Sande, Nyu-Yorker Yidisher Folkstsaytung, New York, 1889. Yiddish political cartoon depicting a chicken with the head of Tsar Alexander III [who was particularly harsh in his persecution of Jews] referring to the Jewish custom of kapparot, involving swinging a chicken over one’s head on the eve of Yom Kippur. -- source link
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