Born in Warsaw to a house painter, Maurycy (Mojżesz) Trębacz grew up with an interest in painting. With scholarships and the support of patrons, Trębacz studied in Warsaw, Kraków, and Munich, earning awards and accolades for his portraits and landscapes. Working initially in the Polish Romantic-national tradition, he later evolved toward Impressionism. Thematically, he focused on landscape, portraiture, and a mix of biblical and Polish romantic subjects but began to produce contemporary, politically informed depictions of Jewish life and political woe at the turn of the century as he developed Zionist sympathies. Receiving antisemitic criticism for these, Trębacz was motivated to organize Warsaw’s first Jewish art exhibition (1911). He ran a painting school in Łódź from 1918 until it was closed with the Nazi invasion in 1939. He died in the Łódź ghetto.
Chabibi
my vaybl
be on your guard
when you meet
a goy
he likes you nisht
be on your guard
when you meet
a goy
he likes you
be on your guard
when you meet
a yid
he smells you
chassids…
This necklace of beads is predominantly of orange glass but incorporates stone beads and gold spacers as well. The beads range in shape from bi-conical to cylindrical and also include larger…
The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were tormented; they experienced terrible things. But from time to time they also experienced fine and wonderful things. They suffered. But they also loved. Except that…