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An Extraordinary But Little-Known Jewish Filmmaker Explores the Nature of Cinema

The Little-Known Jewish Filmmaker Exploring the Nature of Film

Brooklyn-born avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs has been testing the boundaries of cinema for six decades. His first film “Orchard Street” (1956) portrays the vanishing Jewish immigrant population on the Lower East Side in 27 minutes. Meanwhile, “Star Spangled to Death” is seven hours of found footage that questions the mythology of America, begun in 1956 […]

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Eva Hesse, The Extraordinary Sculptor Who Died at 34

Eva Hesse, The Extraordinary Sculptor Who Escaped the Nazis then Died at 34

Minimalist art is characterized by a kind of machine-made reductiveness, a movement transgressive in its simplicity. So what would post-minimalism look like? Just check out the breathtaking work of the late Eva Hesse. Born to observant Jews in Hamburg, on this day, January 11, in 1936, Hesse escaped Nazi Europe via kindertransport, eventually settling with […]

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Another Astonishingly Talented Jewish Painter Who Was Killed by the Third Reich

The Painter Charlotte Salomon Killed Her Grandfather. Then the Nazis Killed Her.

2017 marks the hundredth year since the birth of Charlotte Salomon, one of the last century’s greatest, darkest, and most under-appreciated Jewish painters. Charlotte Salomon grew up at a bad time. She lost her mother at a young age, and then only made it through two years at a prestigious Berlin art school before the […]

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