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May 9, 2024

The Tale of a Forgotten Encyclopedia of Jewish Artists in Prewar Paris

Otto Scheid’s journey into oblivion.

In the 1950s, two Yiddish-language encyclopedias of Jewish artists who died in the Holocaust were published. Remarkably enough, there was also a third and only slightly different work which almost appeared in the same decade but never made it into print. Alyssa Quint tells its story:

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