The Jews the world over love liberty, have fought for it & will fight for it ... enlist with the infantry Reinforcements – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The Jews the world over love liberty, have fought for it & will fight for it ... enlist with the infantry Reinforcements comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Jews the world over love liberty, have fought for it & will fight for it ... enlist with the infantry Reinforcements
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This Montreal recruiting poster takes an unusual approach: it addresses Jewish men directly and invokes three prominent British Jewish public figures, Herbert Samuel, Rufus Isaacs, and Edwin Montagu, to make its case. Printed by a Montreal lithography firm sometime between 1914 and 1918, it belongs to Canada's wartime effort to fill infantry ranks through voluntary enlistment. Its slogan, that Jews "the world over love liberty" and will fight for it, reflects an appeal to shared stakes in the war and to a community that was not always welcomed into Canadian military service. The poster is a useful window into how recruiters tried to reach specific communities during the First World War.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 105 x 69 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | Montreal : Montreal Litho. Co. Limited, [between 1914 and 1918] |
| Subjects | Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel,--Viscount,--1870-1963. Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs,--Marquess of,--1860-1935. Montagu, Edwin Samuel,--1879-1924. Canada.--Canadian Army--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Canada. Jews--Military service--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,919 × 6,140 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225564 |
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