After surviving Auschwitz and reuniting with her husband, Czechoslovakian-born Gizel Berman immigrated to the United States in 1948. The couple settled first in Kansas and later in Seattle, where Berman studied art and began sculpting. She is best known for her bronze, which can be found in many locations in the northwest, including the Mercer Island Public Library. In 2008, Berman’s work was the subject of a posthumous exhibition at the West Valley Art Museum in Surprise, Arizona.
Founded in 1897 in New York City, the democratic socialist Yiddish daily Forverts quickly became the most popular Jewish newspaper in the United States (and the most widely circulated non-English…
Jacques Lipchitz created The Prayer in 1943 to express his horror over the mass murder of Jews, which was then underway in Europe, reportedly crying as he made the statue. The central figure in The…
An illustration for the monthly magazine Harper’s, The Thirty-Second Indiana Regiment (Colonel Willich) Building Pontoons in Kentucky was likely drawn by Henry Mosler during the Civil War. Engravings…