Sleeping Beauty

Aleksandr Tyshler

1918

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Drawing of women sitting around table with food.

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Aleksandr Tyshler

1898–1980

Born in Melitopol, Ukraine, the son of a carpenter, the artist Aleksandr Tyshler studied in Kiev and, after serving in a propaganda unit of the Red Army, continued his education in Moscow. He worked in various mediums: painting, sculpture, graphic design, and theatrical design. Beginning in the late 1920s and continuing through the 1940s, he designed sets for both the Yiddish- and Russian-language theaters.

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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

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Cartooning & graphic art

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Costume Design for Dovid Bergelson’s The Deaf One

In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the lifting of restrictions on Jewish publishing, Jewish theater companies revolutionized theater and scene design and experimented with modernist approaches…

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Page with circular drawing divided into three segments bearing Hebrew labels, the top segment depicting the sun, moon, stars, and clouds, the bottom right segment depicting fish, and the bottom left segment depicting other animals.

Illustration from Kehunat Avraham (The Priesthood of Abraham)

Kehunat Avraham (The Priesthood of Abraham), completed in Venice in 1719, is an interpretation and retelling of sections from the book of Psalms in verse. The Hebrew text in this illustration comes…

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Portrait with circular border of seated older woman wearing wimple and stern expression and holding book in right hand, with Portuguese and Hebrew text below and around portrait.

Portrait of Simcha Vaz (1582–1643), painted by her son, Moses Belmonte

Simcha (Gimar) Belmonte (born Vaz; 1582–1643) was the wife of Jakob Israel Belmonte (a poet, writer, and trader). She and her husband were among the founders of the Jewish community in Amsterdam after…

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Sleeping Beauty

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Aleksandr Tyshler

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