Rebecca Lepkoff was a New York–born photographer who captured street life in her Lower East Side neighborhood. Lepkoff bought her first camera with earnings from dancing at the 1939 World’s Fair and then turned her eye to the rhythms and movements of daily life in the city. She associated with a number of other Jewish photographers of the period, including Arnold Eagle, who introduced her to the Photo League, a group that recorded the rapidly changing urban environment in which they lived. Her works document the bygone spaces, buildings, and communities of her youth and much of her adult life.
The actor, comedian, and playwright Donat (David) Herrnfeld grew up in the small town of Raab (Győr) in Hungary; his family later moved to Vienna. Donat and his siblings performed and toured early on…
The Great Vehicle is one of dozens of wheeled sculptures Rantzer created for “The Zionists,” his 2001 solo exhibition at the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv. The overall themes of the show were migration…
I got up and stepped out of the hotel. The early-morning breeze was moist and cool—pure refreshment after a night of suffering.
Everything seemed reborn, and the small-town, good-natured Cubans…