In a climate that spawned heavyweights like Marc Chagall, Sholem Aleichem, Irving Berlin, and Isaacs Asimov and Babel, it’s no surprise there were yet other Soviet-era Jewish artists who evaded mainstream recognition. El Lissitzky is one such fellow. A titan of the early 20th-century Russian Jewish art renaissance, “El” was a leading innovator in the graphic arts. Born Lazar Lissitzky in a Jewish community near Smolensk, […]