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Artist:
Shoshannah Brombacher
Title:
Kapoyrah
Price:
Year:
1997
Medium:
Size - (USA):
12 W x 18 H x 0 D (inches)
Size - (metric):
30.5 W x 45.7 H x 0.0 D (centimeters)
Theme:
Edition:
Original
Artwork ID:
610818
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Artwork Description:
Before Yom Kippur some people swing a rooster hen over the head of their family saying a prayer that this animal will be the atonement for sins. The chicken is them slaughtered by a butcher and the meat or money given to the poor. It is called kapyrah shlugn in Yiddish.
