A History of Judaism - Martin Goodman
- (below) Lithograph of
Shabbat in the Shtetl (c.
- by the Ukrainian
artist Issachar Ber Ryback
(1897–1935), who
travelled the Russian
countryside to study
Jewish folk life and art.
This picture was
published in Shtetl, Mayn
khoyever heym: a
gedenknish (1922),
Ryback’s elegiac depiction
of Jewish life in his shtetl
before its destruction in
the pogroms of 1919.
- Wooden sukkah
(booth) from Fischach,
southern Germany, c.
- The roof has a
covering of foliage with
fruits hung for
decoration. A local
painter has depicted on
the walls both the village
of Fischach and an
idealized Jerusalem.
