In case you weren't sure how they felt about the Czar (from the safety of New York, naturally).
This idea found a new target some decades later.
Incidentally, you can see here three versions of the prayer for the Czar and his family, including the ever-changing heirs apparent - brother George, then Mikhael, and finally son, Alexei - in these texts from siddurim printed in 1897, 1901, and 1908.
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These are amazing! Are they taken from a book, or do you have access to the originals?
ReplyDeleteI don't get it. The chicken is the Czar or Hitler and so...?
ReplyDeleteSo it mocks them, and you cut its head off.
ReplyDeleteI guess.
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