Saul Raskin, an artist widely known for his paintings of Jewish life and religious subjects, died of a heart attack this weekend, at the age of 88.
Known, too, for his sketches of New England fisherman as well as of pushcart peddlers on the Lower East Side, Mr. Rashkin studied art in Berlin and Paris, after leaving his native Kiev, Russia. He started as a journeyman lithographer and cartoonist before World War I. He came to the United States in 1904.
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