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...
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