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The Peretz Centre's Stained Glass Windows: Panel 4

 

grapes

stylized dove with wings of sholem (peace)

 

 

mir zaynen do (we are here), the rallying cry of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, from the song "Zog Nit Keyn Mol".

 

bobe (grandmother)

 

zeyde (grandfather)

 

eltern (grandparents)

 

 

heym (home)

 

 

unzer kinder (our children)

6' x 18.25'

 

The fourth panel depicts basic values: home, family, peace, and the survival of the Jewish people. Picking up on the themes of earth, roots, gardens and traditional Jewish ritual, the window is crowned by grapes, "the fruit of the vine."

 

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