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The Jews the world over love liberty, have fought for it and will fight for it... : [poster]
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3306
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3306
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 1 poster : col. ; 104 x 70 cm
- Scope and Content
- Caption accompanying a reproduction of this poster in G. Tulchinsky, Taking root : the origins of the Canadian Jewish community (facing p. 230): This poster was distributed throughout Montreal in 1917 urging Jewish men to join a locally recruited Jewish Reinforcement Company for the Canadian Army. Note the deference to British Jewish "worthies": Herbert Samuel, Viscount Reading, and Edwin Montagu.
- Notes
- Poster caption continues: "Britain expects every son of Israel to do his duty : enlist with the infantry reinforcements for overseas under the command of Capt. Freedman : headquarters, 786 St. Lawrence Boulevard, Montreal."
- Poster illustration includes a man saying (in text balloon): "You have cut my bonds and set me free - now let me help you set others free!"
- Montreal Litho. Co
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Accession Number
- 1981-5-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions