A Difficult Passage in the Talmud

Isidor Kaufmann

1903

Painting of boy seated next to a stove studying a book.
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Isidor Kaufmann

1853–1921

The Hungarian painter Isidor Kaufmann was born in Arad (now in Romania), where his father commanded an army regiment in the Austro-Hungarian imperial army. Kaufmann studied at the Budapest Drawing School and later in Vienna, where he spent the remainder of his life. Winning an award for his painting The Skeptic at the Vienna World’s Fair in 1873, he would go on to become particularly known for his paintings of Hasidic folk-life and for his genre scenes of Jewish life in East Central Europe, including The Rabbi’s Visit (1898/9), Friday Evening (1897/8), and Young Rabbi from N. (ca. 1910).

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