Creator Bio
Meir Gal
b. 1958
Israeli-born photographer Meir Gal tackles political and social issues in his art. Among his best-known works are those that protest discrimination against Israel’s Mizrahim. In 1997, he received the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Award. Gal is a lecturer at the City University of New York and at the School of Visual Arts, where he has developed and taught courses on art and activism.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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“Nine Out of Four Hundred”: Erasing Mizrahi History
Artist Meir Gal’s photo of a 1970s Israeli Jewish history textbook exposes how few pages acknowledged Mizrahi and non-European Jews.