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Marc Chagall: The Painter Who Made the World Float
From a Hasidic shtetl in Belarus to the galleries of Paris, Marc Chagall painted flying lovers, green-faced fiddlers, and biblical visions in colors no one had seen before. He lived to ninety-seven and never stopped painting his Jewish soul.
Amedeo Modigliani: The Jewish Artist Who Painted the Soul
Amedeo Modigliani lived fast, died young, and created some of the most distinctive portraits in art history — elongated faces that seem to peer into eternity.
Chaim Soutine: The Tortured Vision of a Shtetl Boy in Paris
Chaim Soutine fled a Lithuanian shtetl for Paris, where he painted with a raw, violent intensity that influenced generations of artists — from de Kooning to Francis Bacon.
The Great Disputations: Forced Debates of the Middle Ages
The history of the great medieval disputations — forced public debates between Jewish and Christian scholars in Paris, Barcelona, and Tortosa — their rigged rules, courageous defenders, and devastating consequences.