The Israeli painter Reuven Rubin was born in an isolated village in Romania. He studied at the newly founded Bezalel School in Jerusalem for a year and then for several years in Paris. After World War I, he lived in Italy, the United States, and Romania. He settled permanently in the Land of Israel in 1922 and became one of its best-known painters. He is most known for his figurative paintings of the life and landscape of the Jewish homeland, which he rendered in an orientalized, idealized manner.
When all these things befall you—the blessing and the curse that I have set before you—and you take them to heart amidst the various nations to which the Lord your God has banished you, and you…
This scene in a bomb shelter during World War I is characterized by the empathy and intimacy with which many of Amy Julia Drucker’s London paintings were imbued. The children stand out amid the masses…
Haifa 1 Elul, 5724
August 9, 1964
To: His Excellency David Ben-Gurion
Sde Boker
Dear Sir,
From your letter of May 19, 1964, I understood that you wish to avoid a comprehensive discussion of the…