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.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Food Administration; Charles Edward Chambers (artist)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Diaspora or minority
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Migration
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, 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.
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.
