Born into a wealthy Galician family, the painter Léon Weissberg studied in Vienna. After serving in the Austrian army in World War I, he continued his studies in Berlin and Munich. He traveled in Italy and the Netherlands before settling in Paris in 1923. With the German advance on Paris, he took refuge in the Unoccupied Zone. French police arrested him in 1943, and after a short time in the internment camps in Gurs and Drancy, he was deported to Maidanek, where he was killed on arrival.
The Lord said to Moses as follows: Speak to the Israelite people and instruct them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout the ages; let them attach a cord of…
Jewish Tailor is one of Mark Antokolski’s earliest sculptures, created while he was still a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The work appeared in an era of liberalization of tsarist…
. . . We believe that our outlook on social life in general is more refined and purer than that of contemporary civilized nations. Our family is sacred to us in a manner more profound than [is the…