Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art by Ezra Mendelsohn textbook-shipeasy Schatzker traces the near-century-long boom

Schatzker traces the near-century-long boom and bust cycle that took place in the Austro-Hungarian province - from the perilous

Lori Zabar—Louis’s granddaughter—begins with her grandfather’s escape from Ukraine in 1921

dairy- and refined sugar-free

and a Purim play—written by Czech and Austrian Jews

must be understood as part of the Radical Enlightenment

Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art by Ezra Mendelsohn textbook-shipeasy Schatzker traces the near-century-long boomMaurycy Gottlieb was born in 1856 in the small city known in Polish as Drohobycz, then attached to the province of Galicia in the Austro Hungarian Empire. In the course of his very short life (he died at age 23), Gottlieb painted dozens of extraordinary works that have since found homes in museums in eastern Europe. (where he has long been honored as a Polish artist) and in Israel, where, following a major exhibition in 1991 in Tel Aviv, he achieved