Showing posts with label art as resistance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art as resistance. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Featured Jewish Partisan – Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi, born March 14th, 1916

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Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi was born in Italy in 1916. In the aftermath of the Great War, his hometown of Turin became a hotbed of social unres...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Celebrating Chanukah: An Act of Jewish Resistance

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On a Friday evening in December 1932 before the start of Shabbat, the Posner family prepared to light the 8th candle on their Chanukiah as t...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Hirsh Glik, Poet/Songwriter - Hymm of the Jewish Partisans

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In the summer of 1944, Hirsh Glik disappeared from the ghetto in Goldfilz, Estonia, and was presumed dead. He was only twenty-two but had de...
Monday, March 25, 2019

The Hymn of the Jewish Partisans

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The song called Zog Nit Keynmol in Yiddish is known simply as the Hymn of the Partisans. From the ghettos and the camps it has journeyed ac...
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Thursday, March 8, 2018

Art and Jewish Women in the Partisans: The Incredible Story of Paula Burger

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Born in 1934, Paula Burger lived with her parents and younger brother Isaac in a small town about one mile from the larger Novogrodek shtetl...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Partisans In The Arts: Marcel Marceau (1923-2007)

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“It’s good to shut up sometimes.” — Marcel Marceau Marcel Marceau, a French-born performance artist, championed the art of pantomime for h...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Partisans in the Arts: Marko Behar, Bulgarian artist (1914-1973)

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Marko Behar, a talented sketch artist and draftsman (among other mediums), provides us with a unique view into Bulgaria during World War II ...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Paintings by Mieczyslaw Watorski

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Dear readers, we need your help! We recently received an email from a Holocaust Center on the East Coast about a duo of paintings someone re...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Reflections from Prague, Part 2 - Terezin: Healing Through Art and Storytelling

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JPEF Education Manager Jonathan Furst recently returned from a trip to Prague, Czech Republic, where he attended the 26th European League fo...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Partisans in the Arts: Abraham Sutzkever, Poet (1913-2010)

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In 1984, the New York Times declared Abraham Sutzkever, “the greatest poet of the Holocaust.” His poems (which are written in Yiddish and ha...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Figures of Resistance: Bei Dao (born Zhao Zhenkai, 1949)

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Bei Dao’s poetry may not appear subversive, however his writings and his involvement in the publication of a literary journal brought danger...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Partisans in the Arts: Alexander Bogen (1916-2010)

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"Why would a man in grave danger create art? For an artist, the motivation to create is even more powerful than existence itself."...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Featured Jewish Partisan: Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi (z''l)

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Soldier's Sketches Only Known Drawings of Jewish Partisan Experience Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi was a young man in Turin, Italy during the...