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  • Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865-1908: A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil

    Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865-1908: A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil - Hardcover

    Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865-1908: A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil - Hardcover

    By Richard I. Cohen and Mirjam Rajner

About Richard I. Cohen Books

Richard I. Cohen is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has co-curated two major art-historical exhibitions, one in New York (From Court Jews to the Rothschilds) and one in Paris (Le Juif Errant: Un Témoin du Temps). He is the author of Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe, which was the recipient of the Arnold Wischnitzer Prize for the best book in Jewish history (1999), and has edited and co-edited over fifteen books, many focusing on aspects of Jewish art and history. Two of his co-edited works are published by the Littman Library: The Jewish Contribution to Civilization: Reassessing an Idea (2007), and Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry (2010).