Bidspirit auction | Three Lottery Tickets of OZET

Three Lottery Tickets of OZET - the Society for Settling Toiling Jews - Three lottery tickets of OZET (ОЗЕТ) - the Society for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers in the Soviet Union. 1. The Second All-Union OZET Lottery (1929-1930) - 2-я Всесоюзная ОЗЕТ-Лоторея (in German/Russian), and at right in Yiddish: 2 אלפארבאנדישע געזערד-לאטעריע (”Second All-Union GEZERD/OZET Lottery”). Denomination: 50 kopeks (50 Коп / 50 קאפ). Illustration depicting a worker on a tractor with the year 1929, and a hammer and sickle. The text in the margins appears in Russian, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Georgian, and Armenian - in accordance with Soviet nationalities policy at the time. 15x10 cm. Tear with a tiny loss at left. Good condition. 2. Two tickets from later lotteries (Lotteries 4 and 5) - both tickets feature essentially the same design - an industrial worker alongside an agricultural tractor, with variations in color. From the series issued in the early 1930s. The Fourth All-Union OZET Lottery (Всесоюзная ОЗЕТ Лотерея 4), and the Fifth All-Union OZET Lottery (Всесоюзная ОЗЕТ Лотерея 5). Identical size: 11x7 cm. Good condition. OZET (ОЗЕТ / געזערד): Established in 1925 with the backing of the Soviet authorities, with the aim of transforming the Jewish masses from ”petty bourgeois” and merchants into ”productive workers” and farmers. During the 1920s and 1930s, the organization worked to encourage Jews to move to agricultural settlements (including the Birobidzhan project), and issued official lottery tickets (OZET Lottery) to raise funds for its activities. The organization was dissolved in 1938 during Stalin's Great Purge, and its leaders were executed.