This photograph was made by the young graphic artist and photographer Solomon Yudovin in the context of his participation in Jewish writer, folklorist, and cultural activist S. An-ski’s famed…
[ . . . ] Now you know and are witness that I have composed several works on various topics. However, I did not write them in order to publish them; rather, I prepared them for my own use, to…
The Russian Revolution initially encouraged a flowering of Jewish cultural activity, lifting restrictions on Jewish publishing. Jewish theater companies experimented with modernist approaches to stage…
Born in Beshenkovichi, a village near Vitebsk (today in Belarus), Solomon Yudovin was a Russian graphic artist and book illustrator. Unlike his contemporaries Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, he was not a modernist and worked within a figurative, realist tradition throughout his life. He is known especially for his woodcuts and linocuts of Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement and for his series of Jewish folk ornaments.
This photograph was made by the young graphic artist and photographer Solomon Yudovin in the context of his participation in Jewish writer, folklorist, and cultural activist S. An-ski’s famed…
[ . . . ] Now you know and are witness that I have composed several works on various topics. However, I did not write them in order to publish them; rather, I prepared them for my own use, to…
The Russian Revolution initially encouraged a flowering of Jewish cultural activity, lifting restrictions on Jewish publishing. Jewish theater companies experimented with modernist approaches to stage…