Born in Hungary, Gyula Pap moved with his family at age fourteen to Vienna. He studied art in Vienna and Budapest and metalwork at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture in Weimar from 1920 to 1923. He taught in Berlin from 1926 to 1933. With the rise of the Nazis, he moved to Budapest, where he lived until his death. He worked in several mediums: oil painting, typography, photography, textile design, graphic art, and industrial design.
This poem says that wellbeing [shalom] is ours, since we have God as our king, and we have the Torah, whose paths are wellbeing, even though we have acted wrongly and have been trapped by bad hatred…
The text on this inscription, dating from the establishment of the Rema Synagogue in Krákow, reads, in part: “The man, R. Israel ben Joseph (of blessed memory), gathered his strength, for the honor of…
I certainly had an obscure childhood
but intensely my own,
a childhood which wanted to be dashing
but had the features of a caricature.
Yes, a caricature. For example:
that absurd love for Sophie,…