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Isidore Busatt
1912
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Isidore Busatt
19th–20th Century
Isidore Busatt was an artist active in New York in the early twentieth century. He was especially known for his humorous cartoons, which appeared in publications such as Der groyser kundes, a satirical weekly in Yiddish.
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