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The Russian states “Come to our collectivist farm, comrade!.” A communist propaganda photo from 1930, including a man and a woman. The Russian states “Come to our collectivist farm, comrade!.” https://www.theprattlerblog.com/blog-1/jewishness-andportnoys-complaint monthly 0.5 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c2a292bd86357c7e40757f/f1f7ae60-7d75-4ddc-a0c3-03e502b93304/BLG+Haifa+Bay.jpeg The Prattler - Jewishness & EMOTION IN Portnoy’s Complaint - A (modern) view of Haifa Bay, taken from Mount Carmel in Haifa. 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Despite being quite an informal little artwork, it is one of the most frequently reproduced images of the composer. Much of this has to do with Mendelssohn’s figure in the Western musical imagination as a great prodigy, and it being one of the few images of him as a young man: most paintings and portraits of him come from much later in his life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c2a292bd86357c7e40757f/1664539448476-D9CQDZIGS66CL62Q78PA/BLG+String+Octet.jpeg The Prattler - Mendelssohn: Youth and the Octet - Make it stand out A String Octet in the most common seating arrangement. 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