At the station that marks the end of the exhibition, we will look at the timeline describing milestones in Kaplan's life, and get to know the main stations on the train that started its journey in the shtetl, and ended up here.

Shalom Aleichem's children's tales describe colorful human moments from the Jewish yearly cycle. In the prints based on the stories "Dmei Chanukah" and "Visiting with King Ahasuerus" Kaplan deals with the scarcity that the Jewish families were dealing with, in the face of the abundance that is characteristic of the holidays.

Shalom Aleichem's corpus is full of tales for children that, from a childish viewpoint, also cover painful issues such as dealing with violence and poverty . Among the many children who grew up on these tales is Kaplan himself – who, in the series of prints before you, deviated from his practice and inserted himself into the work, alongside the children gazing adoringly at the Yiddish writer.

Nazi Germany's siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) is an open wound in the city's history. Kaplan, who lived and worked in the city for most of his adult life, returned to his home when the siege was lifted, and created a series of prints that capture the process of recovery and renewal.

In Shalom Aleichem's best-known work – “Tuvia the Milkman” - the author skillfully makes connections between a multitude of opposites: between laughter and tears, between longing for the past and longing for the future, and between Russian revolutions and American promises. The prints that Kaplan created in its wake reflect these many contrasts, ranging between the lightness and humor of the characters and the gloomy events that befall them.

In the novella "The Song of Songs" Shalom Aleichem paints a portrait of youthful love that is full of innocence, and looks at young love with both a childish and an adult point of view. Kaplan's series of prints following the novella captures the unique charm of the work, and the delicacy and tenderness of its protagonists.

Kaplan's art is in many ways also a work of translation: the translation of literary and textual worlds into the language of form and color. At this station we will see the prints he created based on Jewish folk songs, in which his work of translation was twofold - both of the Yiddish word, and of the klezmer melody that accompanies it.

Anatoly Kaplan's surprising interpretation of the well-known Pesach verse, which ranges between the Communist Party and the vision of Isaiah

Three exceptional paintings by Kaplan offer a glimpse of the daily life of the Jews of the Soviet Union, the tensions they faced, the losses they suffered, and the loves they experienced.

Shalom Aleichem, the hero of Kaplan's works, was also a cultural hero in the Soviet Union, afforded an iconic status that no Yiddish writer had achieved before him. At this station we will discover his strong ties with Lev Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky, and learn about the conditions that enabled him to place Jewish culture at the forefront of his work despite Soviet censorship.