Raised images of Yiddish poets gaze at viewers from gravestones. These two-dimensional memorials, however, are the only gravestones these 12 poets murdered under Stalin would ever have. This series of portraits, called “The Great Thinkers,” is by Lazar Ran, a Latvian-born artist who devoted himself to depicting Jewish life and suffering in the Soviet Union. […]
Anti-Semitism
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