Auction 72 Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art
Mar 17, 2017 (your local time)
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LOT 43:

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
“To All Consumers and Retail Butchers of ...

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“To All Consumers and Retail Butchers of Brownsville & East New York… Protest Against the High Cost of Meat by Coming to our Demonstration.”
Printed broadside. Text in English and Yiddish. 12 x 9 inches.

Brooklyn, New York: (1935).

The City Action Committee Against the High Cost of Living, a group of New York City female homemakers led by Clara Lemlich Shavelson (1886-1982), organized a boycott demanding a reduction in the price of kosher meat.

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