One of six alphabet cards depicting the Hebrew alphabet in Russian and Hebrew

The six alphabet cards are written in Russian and Hebrew and depict the development of the Hebrew alphabet. Exactly half a century after its exile, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) once again set foot on Soviet soil amid the prevailing atmosphere of glasnost. Though a devoted thread had risked everything to sustain a thread of Jewish life, the final collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 revealed a Jewish cultural wasteland imprinted by 70 years of repression. Alphabet cards such as these were used in educational programs in order to help revitalize Jewish life and learning for a new generation.