Posters

The museum’s collection includes dozens of posters from Jewish organizations during the interwar period. They are posters from political parties, rallies,  and various cultural events. Among them are the posters of the international Zionist revisionist organization “Betar”, which was founded in Latvia, as well as the religious Zionist party “Mizrahi”. Posters advertising performances of the  Riga Jewish Theatre and concerts in various Latvian cities have also been preserved. Several posters can be seen in the Museum’s permanent exhibition, including: an advertisement for the Jewish newspaper “Frimorgn” and the election poster for the United List of Jewish Merchants and Industrialists. The posters in the museum’s collection were printed in Riga, Liepāja, Saldus, Daugavpils, Kuldīga and other Latvian cities. The language of the posters is mostly Yiddish with Latvian translation, though there are also some posters in German (mostly from Kurzeme). The posters are vivid evidence of the active political, social and cultural lives led by Jews during the period of  Latvia’s independence in the 1920s and  30s.