Where do you get your visual image of the shtetl, the place in which, perhaps, your ancestors lived a century or so ago? Chances are, a major contribution comes from the work of Marc Chagall and his lifelong reimagining of his home town, Vitebsk. That's all I feel the need to say: he's a hero to anyone who needs to imagine recent Jewish history through the lens of modernism.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Marc Chagall (July 7, 1887)
Where do you get your visual image of the shtetl, the place in which, perhaps, your ancestors lived a century or so ago? Chances are, a major contribution comes from the work of Marc Chagall and his lifelong reimagining of his home town, Vitebsk. That's all I feel the need to say: he's a hero to anyone who needs to imagine recent Jewish history through the lens of modernism.
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