Bronx–born American photographer Joel Meyerowitz began his career as an advertising art director, but taught himself photography after an encounter with Robert Frank, and became a freelance photographer in 1963. He is known especially for his documentary photographs of New York and New Yorkers and for his pioneering work in color photography. His work has appeared in more than 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries and he has published sixteen books. In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, Meyerowitz began the World Trade Center Archive, with some 8,000 images created in partnership with the Museum of the City of New York.
This watercolor sketch of uprooted Jews arriving in the Warsaw Ghetto was one of many artworks Rynecki made while incarcerated there. Before the war, many of his paintings documented the vibrancy of…
Members of the Bund (General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia), Po‘ale Tsiyon, the Socialist-Zionist party, and Jewish trade unions, along with representatives of the Russian…
Thank you, Lord, for having me awaken
to become a witness to the flaming of the sun.
Someone gently shook me from my bed
as I was somewhere in a dream
of visiting Jerusalem again.
And I walked (still…