--- title: שפייז וועט געווינען דיא קריעג! (Food Will Win the War!), Yiddish edition url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/food-will-win-the-war-yiddish-1917/ description: Immigrants crowd a ship's rail as it passes the Statue of Liberty, with the New York skyline under a rainbow of flag stripes. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![שפייז וועט געווינען דיא קריעג! (Food Will Win the War!), Yiddish edition](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/food-will-win-the-war-yiddish-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/food-will-win-the-war-yiddish-1917.jpg) # שפייז וועט געווינען דיא קריעג! (Food Will Win the War!), Yiddish edition Immigrants crowd a ship's rail as it passes the Statue of Liberty, with the New York skyline under a rainbow of flag stripes. The Yiddish text reads: 'Food will win the war! You came here to find freedom. Now you must help to preserve it. We must supply the Allies with wheat. Let nothing go to waste.' The tell of transfer is the arrival scene itself: the viewer's own memory of Liberty is attached to a request about bread. - **Date:** 1917 - **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi) - **Made by:** U.S. Food Administration; Charles Edward Chambers (artist) - **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america) - **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Wilson Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=wilson-administration) - **Leader:** [Woodrow Wilson](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=woodrow-wilson) - **Audience:** [Diaspora or minority](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=diaspora-minority) - **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply) - **Themes:** [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front), [Migration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=migration) - **Event:** [World War I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-i) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2002720472/), retrieved September 27, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain in the U.S. (published before 1931) Chambers, Charles Edward, approximately 1883-1941, artist. 1917. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-05651. ## Text on the object Original (Yiddish) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` שפייז וועט געווינען דיא קריעג! איהר קומט אהער צו געפינען פרייהייט. יעצט מוזט איהר העלפען זיא צו בעשיצען מיר מוזען דיא עלליים פערזארגען מיט ווייץ. לאזט קיין זאך ניט גיין אין ניוועץ. [seal: United States Food Administration] יונייטעד סטייטס שפייז פערוואלטונג. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Food will win the war! You came here to find freedom. Now you must help to protect it. We must supply the Allies with wheat. Let nothing go to ruin/waste. [seal: United States Food Administration] United States Food Administration. ``` Text is in the Yiddish (Hebrew) alphabet, printed left-to-right lines reading right-to-left as usual for Yiddish. The final line is a Yiddish transliteration of the agency's English name, not a translation of it. The small circular emblem between the body text and that last line is the U.S. Food Administration's seal graphic, not further legible text. [← Die Fahnen flattern hoch im Wind! (The Flags Flutter High in the Wind!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/die-fahnen-flattern-1917/) [4 Minute Men: A Message from Washington →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/four-minute-men-message-from-washington-1917/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (0130 · Transfer) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)