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{{quote|[The pashkevilim] make clear what is virtuous or acceptable behavior and what is not. They serve as expressive media that show what those who prepare and post as well as those who allow the poster to be displayed (the latter by attending to its meaning and not removing or covering it) consider to be acceptable or worthy of notice… The informed observer can thus use such signs as a window through which to glimpse what is appropriate behavior as well as what is on the mind of the community, its interests and concerns.<ref name="Heilman2006">{{cite book|author=Samuel C. Heilman|title=Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7ld72vuLTkC&pg=PA212|year=2006|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-24763-5|pages=212–}}</ref>}}
Given the unique sociological insight to be garnered from their study, the [[National Library of Israel]] has begun to acquire private collections of pashkevilim to be preserved in a special section available for academic research.<ref>{{cite web |title=
Pashkevilim are mostly used to protest vehemently against a person the writer disagrees with.
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