Born in Haifa, Ralph Bakshi came to the United States as a child, where he grew up in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C. Bakshi is a director and screenwriter of animated films and television series, as well as a painter. In his early career, he worked for the Terrytoons Animation Studio and later for Paramount Cartoon Studios. His films and television productions, including Lord of the Rings, Fritz the Cat, and Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, are often controversial. Bakshi received the ACT Achievement in Children’s Television Award in 1988.
Jankiel’s Concert was inspired by a scene from Pan Tadeusz, Adam Mickiewicz’s 1834 epic poem, considered the national poem of Poland. The character of Jankiel, the Jewish innkeeper, is the most…
Leon Levinstein, widely admired for his street photography, held himself at a distance from the art world and never produced a book of his work. He kept his day job as a graphic designer and went out…
“There is no Jewish music!” Thus concluded not only our assimilationists but also most of our nationalists.
We will not argue with the former at all, since, according to them, because there is no…