Certificate of a collective membership in the Kharkiv branch of Ukrainian OZET, 1920s-1930s

The blank certificate for collective members (instutions, clubs, work collectives, etc.) of the Kharkiv branch of the All-Union Association for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers in the USSR (Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Zemel’nomu Ustroistvu Trudiashchikhsia Evreev v SSSR), best known by its abbreviation OZET (Yiddish, GEZERD), established in 1925 in Moscow. OZET’s mission was to publicize inside and outside the USSR the plans to foster Jewish agriculture, and to collect funds for implementing those plans. In Ukrainian and Yiddish (Yiddish is direct and exact translation of Ukrainian). The certificate is framed by images symbolizing the alliance of workers and peasants (on the top), Jewish life of the pre-revolutionary past and the socialist present (on the left and right), and Jewish farmers’ passage toward industrial Soviet future (on the bottom). Published by the litography “Grafik” in Kharkiv in the 1920s-1930s. Print run 2,000 copies.