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Yemenite Jew
Hermann Struck
1930
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The master etcher Hermann Struck was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Berlin and remained an observant Jew throughout his life. An active Zionist from an early age, he moved to Palestine in 1922 and spent the rest of his life there. He was known for his portraits of European cultural figures and for his landscapes and character studies of traditional Jews, both Ashkenazi and Mizrahi.
It is standard fare at Zionist assemblies to declare that Israel belongs to all Jews, wherever they live. As a ritual to be trotted out on Sabbaths and festivals (and the atmosphere at Zionist…
“Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarket Lines” is a comic from Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical comic series American Splendor, which focused on everyday life in Cleveland, Ohio. Not an…
Detail from Everyone Who Mourns Jerusalem Reaps Its Joy (at the Wailing Wall), Hermann Struck.
The Jewish Museum, New York / Art Resource, NY. Photo: John Parnell.
Detail from American Splendor, Harvey Pekar, Robert Crumb.
Harvey Pekar, American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar, art by R. Crumb (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1986). Used with permission of the author.