Printmaker and painter Miklós Adler was born in Debrecen, Hungary. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1923 to 1934 before returning to his hometown, where he taught at a Jewish high school. In 1944, Adler and his family were arrested and deported to Auschwitz, but their train was rerouted to the Terezín concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, which was liberated in May 1945. After the war, Adler returned to his hometown and continued his arts career, producing a series of sixteen woodcuts, seven of which appear in A Survivors’ Haggadah, used by Jewish survivors in displaced persons camps near Munich for the first Passover after the war. In 1960, Adler immigrated to Israel.
This intricately decorated textile, possibly used as a Torah cover, was produced in Prague around 1600. Four squares adorn its center, the top two containing vases ringed by flowers and vines and the…
Jacob Epstein, “Morris Rosenfeld,” from Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. Epstein was best-known for his sculptures, but he also created the…
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