ISBN: 9780271095592

Description: xiii, 287 pages, 8 unnumberted pages of plates : chiefly illustrations (some colour), map ; 27 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-272) and index.

Contents:

• From the shtetl to the city (1888-1919)
• The Markus family in Eastern Europe
• Munich, war, and marriage
• Berlin Expressionist circles
• Inflation-era illustrations (1920-1923)
• Classic world literature
• Grotesque Yiddish figures
• "Hebrew melodies"
• The wild side of Weimar (1924-1933)
• Newspaper artist
• Sexuality and the Bible
• The Jewish Käthe Kollwitz
• Exile in Paris (1933-1942)
• From Berlin to the School of Paris
• Holocaust fates.

LCCN: 2023038847

Control Number: 3305591

Series:

• Dimyonot
• Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.)

Subjects:

• Artists -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
• Berlin (Germany) -- Biography.
• Jewish women artists -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
• Jews, Lithuanian -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
• Szalit, Rahel, 1888-1942.

Genre: Biographies.