Don't spit in the well you drink from!

Tradition and Its Discontents

Jewish History and Culture in Eastern Europe

An Online Exhibition from the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies 2002-2003 Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania

"Don't spit in the well you drink from!"
Gusli (The Lyre)
Tiflis (Tbilisi) : 1881

Jews driven from Russia

Left Panel: Publishers Ivan Aksakov and A. S. Suvorin driving two bemused Jews out of Russia.

Right Panel: "Trade-Commercial Crisis" looms over Russian market while masses of Jews depart for Palestine or America following 1881 pogroms.