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First Fruits
Reuven Rubin
1923
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The Israeli painter Reuven Rubin was born in an isolated village in Romania. He studied at the newly founded Bezalel School in Jerusalem for a year and then for several years in Paris. After World War I, he lived in Italy, the United States, and Romania. He settled permanently in the Land of Israel in 1922 and became one of its best-known painters. He is most known for his figurative paintings of the life and landscape of the Jewish homeland, which he rendered in an orientalized, idealized manner.
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Being a Jew means running forever to God
even if you are His betrayer,
means expecting to hear any day,
even if you are a nay sayer,
the blare of Messiah’s horn;
means, even if you wish to,
you…