Born and brought up in Brooklyn, New York, Eric A. Kimmel is a professor emeritus of education at Portland State University. Kimmel has written more than fifty picture books and novels. Known for his adaptations and retellings of folktales from around the world, particularly Yiddish tales, he has received the Caldecott Medal and the Sydney Taylor Picture Book Award.
The focus of this photograph is the rank-and-file participants at a socialist May Day rally, rather than the politicians delivering the speeches. Members of the Photo League maintained that it was the…
This illustration, from an antisemitic publication, Jüdische neue Zeitung vom Marsch aus Wien und anderen Orten der jetzigen zwölff Jüdischen Stammen (Jewish Newspaper from the March to Vienna and…
Emmanuel Evzerichin was one of several Soviet Jewish photographers who documented the battle of Stalingrad. Many of his photographs were unusual in that they focused not on combat, but on the effects…