Brave Art
Today on Tablet
March 10, 2011
ChaeRan Freeze highlights the life and work of Soviet Jewish painter Felix Lembersky today in Tablet Magazine on the occasion of a show at Brandeis of two paintings (one never before exhibited) from the artist’s landmark series that depicted the 1941 Nazi massacres of Jews at Babi Yar. Keep in mind that to create art, under Stalin, that showed specific Nazi animus against the Jews was a risky venture.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.