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Lessons of History…

Karikatūrah Mipaām⚫קָרִיקָטוּרָה מִפַּעַם

Today’s cartoon in Hebrew appeared in Israel in 1943 in על המשמר. This newspaper in particular and others are made available online by the National Library of Israel on the website Historical Jewish Press – עיתונות יהודית היסטורית

Microfilmed and print copies of newspapers and other material are available at the Center for Jewish History. Library and archive records can be found in our catalog.

J.D. Arden is a Reference and Genealogy Librarian at CJH where he curates and translates historical Jewish cartoons for this series Karikatūrah Mipaām ⚫ קָרִיקָטוּרָה מִפַּעַם on the 16th Street Blog and our social media platforms.

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Karikatūrah (קָרִיקָטוּרָה): Hebrew; Comics (American English); from Italian caricatura; a deliberately exaggerated pictorial representation to produce a comic effect. Mipaām (מִפַּעַם): Hebrew; meaning “of long ago” or “from time.”