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August 13, 2018

The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture by Samantha Baskind

On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto...

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June 2, 2014

Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America by Samantha Baskind

Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers, and R. B. Kitaj have long been considered central artists in the canon of twentieth-century American art: Levine for his biting paintings and prints of social...