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A Book of Hebrew Letters
Mark Podwal
1992
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Mark Podwal is a Brooklyn-born artist, illustrator, author, and physician whose themes reflect Jewish history and traditions. Podwal’s works have appeared on the op-ed pages of the New York Times. He has received two Sidney Taylor Awards from the Association of Jewish Libraries and an Aesop Prize from the American Folklore Society.
The Christian parable of the prodigal son, from Luke 15:11–12, was a favorite subject of artists from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. A son squanders his inheritance and is reduced to…
Shahn frequently based his paintings on his own photographs. East Side Soap Box is based on a photo of Jewish workers protesting in Madison Square Park in Manhattan. The Yiddish sign reads: “Nature…
I lived, but as for living I was shiftless in my life,
knew always I’d be buried here when all was done,
that year layers itself upon year, clod on clod, stone on stone,
that in the chill and wormy…