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April 28, 2023

The Groundbreaking Jewish Artist Who Taught Marc Chagall

Yehuda Pen’s portraits of Jewish dignity.

Around the age of eighteen Marc Chagall apprenticed himself to a Jewish artist in the city of Vitebsk named Yehuda Pen. Born in 1854, Pen was not only a gifted teacher but was himself a great artist. Jennifer Stern writes:

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