Israel Shouldn’t Get Its Hopes Up about Iraq
Any outreach to the Jewish state is a product of temporary desperation.
February 4, 2019
Paintings from a Jew in hiding.
Born in 1904 into a well-to-do German Jewish family, Felix Nussbaum began his professional art career in the 1920s and occasionally painted Jewish themes. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Nussbaum was attending the Berlin Academy of the Arts in Rome, which soon expelled him. He spent the remainder of the decade wandering around Europe, unable to return to his native country. Ro Oranim writes:
Any outreach to the Jewish state is a product of temporary desperation.
A cultural gap not easily bridged.
An attempt to ignore the history of Judaism and Christianity.
Paintings from a Jew in hiding.
A detailed miniature from Abel-beth-maacah.
Born in 1904 into a well-to-do German Jewish family, Felix Nussbaum began his professional art career in the 1920s and occasionally painted Jewish themes. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Nussbaum was attending the Berlin Academy of the Arts in Rome, which soon expelled him. He spent the remainder of the decade wandering around Europe, unable to return to his native country. Ro Oranim writes:
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