Israel, Greece, and Cyprus Emerge as a Bulwark of Freedom in the Eastern Mediterranean
A counterweight to Russia, Iran, and Turkey.
December 20, 2018
Marc Chagall’s Jewish Reality and His Jewish Imagination
What exactly was it that his work captured?
From 1918 through 1922, three great avant-garde Russian artists—Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky, and Kazimir Malevich—worked together at a Soviet art academy in the city of Vitebsk. Two of them, Chagall and Lissitzky, were Jews; both had spent their childhoods in Vitebsk. Reviewing a current exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York City of the works of all three, Shifra Sharlin explains how Chagall was influenced by an emerging, distinctively Jewish style of art, and how he broke with it:
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The Palestinian Authority’s Contradictory Claims about Jerusalem
Occupied territory or corpus separatum?
No, Texas Schools Don’t Require Employees to Sign a “Pro-Israel Oath”
And anti-BDS bills don’t threaten freedom of speech.
The Literary Genius of the Hebrew Bible
Ancient Israelite authors “totally eclipsed their neighbors.”
Marc Chagall’s Jewish Reality and His Jewish Imagination
What exactly was it that his work captured?