2/2 | Birthday of Issachar Ber Rybak
Today in Yiddishkayt… February 2 Birthday of Issachar Ber Rybak, Artist Issachar (Yissokher, or “Soukher”) Ber Rybak was born on February 2, 1897 in Elisavetgrad (today Кіровоград, Ukraine). He studied at the Art Academy of Kiev from 1911 to 1916. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Central Committee of the Kultur-lige in Kiev appointed Rybak to be a drawing teacher. In this capacity and inspired by S. An-sky’s ethnographic expeditions, he visited Jewish agricultural communities, memories of which appear in his later works such as the...
Read More1/29 | Birthday of Romain Rolland
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 29 Birthday of Romain Rolland, French Writer French writer Romain Rolland was born in the sleepy village of Clamecy (about 150 miles southeast of Paris) on January 29, 1866 to a provincial, Catholic, and petit bourgeois family. He attended school in France and later in Rome where his discovery of Italian culture changed the course of his intellectual development. He returned to Paris and received his doctorate writing on theater history. He began publishing his first creative work at the age of 30. At the turn of the century, Rolland began his...
Read More1/22 | Birthday of Moïse Kisling
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 22 Birthday of Moïse Kisling, Artist Moïse Kisling was born in Krakow, Galicia (now Poland) on January 22, 1891. He began to draw as a very young child and entered the Art Academy of Krakow when he was fifteen. He studied under a professor who introduced him to French Impressionism and encouraged him to go to Paris. In the 1890s artists coming to Paris began to settle in le Bateau-Lavoir, a commune in the Montmartre area where small studios were rented. It became a haven for Fauvists and Cubists. Among other artists, André Derain, Henri...
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