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Gathering the sources was a modern way of closing ranks, of reaffirming the essential unity of Jewish experience as one vale of tears through space and time. The harder the times, the more desperately…
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Samuel D. Kassow
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1984
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I had a very unusual fifteenth birthday. During my birthday week, the end of April, I was traveling with 5,000 high school students from around the world, visiting concentration camps in Poland. I…
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Dara Horn
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Short Hills, United States of America
Date:
1992
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Moss’s Black Forest series is perhaps her best-known work. The seventeen acrylic and Rhoplex (a water-based acrylic emulsion) paintings feature thick vertical shapes and boldly colored stripes. They…
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Susan Moss
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1977
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In the 1970s, Weisel, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, made a series of abstract paintings inspired by her father’s tattoo from Auschwitz. The central rectangle in this painting resembles a…
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Mindy Weisel
Places:
Washington, United States of America
Date:
1979
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“The Final Solution of the Jewish Question” was the code name assigned by the German bureaucracy to the annihilation of the Jews. The very composition of the code name, when analyzed, reveals its…
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Lucy S. Dawidowicz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1975
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Weinfeld, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, produced artworks addressing the question of who she would have been if she had herself been a prisoner in a concentration camp? Would she have been…
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Yocheved Weinfeld
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1990