Dictionnaire des peintres juifs

The seemingly effortless process by which a suitable title is selected for an encyclopedia such as this became exponentially more complex and difficult as I explored the available options and heard the mounting arguments from all sides. Finding the right mix of words was crucial. After pondering the subject for several months in an effort to arrive at the best possible title, I finally opted for "Around Jewish Art."

PART I
Artists of Jewish Extraction Who Did Not Paint Judaic Scenes

PART 2
List of artists of Jewish extraction who painted Jewish scenes or whose works came to reflect their attachment to their roots.

PART III
There were also some non-Jewish artists who painted Judaic and Jewish scenes or went to work in Palestine and those who exhibited in Jewish institutions and museums as well as others who have not been identified as being Jewish for sure.

PART IV
Sculptors and medallists
Probably because of a reference in the Bible to Abraham destroying statues of pagan gods, Jewish artists refrained from producing sculptures representing humans until at least the 19th Century. It was only after 1880, when many Jews benefited from the emancipation process in Central and Eastern Europe that they felt inclined to turn to this form of art.
Many Jewish artists worked as sculptors during the 19th and 20th Century, some of them became quite famous like Chana Orlov, Jacques Lipchitz, Elie Nadelman or Jacob Epstein among others.

Ben-Moshe, Eitan Naissance - mort : 1971- Nationalité : Israeli Ben-Zion, Ben Zion Weinman Naissance - mort : Ben-Zion studied in Vienna and settled in the U.S in 1920. Working as an amateur painter until 1933, he became an American citizen in 1936. This self-taught artist stopped writing in Hebrew with the rise of Nazism feeling that the language and his work was a scream that no one heard. He was a close friend of Mark Rothko with whom he founded the group “The Ten” in 1935 in New York. He exhaled his love for the Bible and biblical themes and also worked as a sculptor. The Jewish Museum in New York held two exhibitions of Ben-Zion's works in 1948 and 1952 as well as a retrospective in 1956. Nationalité : Ukrainian then American 1897-? Ben-Zion, Ben Zion Weinman Naissance - mort : Ben-Zion settled in the U.S in 1920 and became an American citizen in 1936. This self-taught artist stopped writing in Hebrew with the rise of Nazism feeling that the language and his work was a scream that no one heard. Ben-Zion was a close friend of Mark Rothko with whom he founded the group “The Ten” in 1935 in New York. He exhaled his love for the Bible and biblical themes and also worked as a sculptor. The Jewish Museum in New York held two exhibitions of his works in 1948 and 1952 as well as a retrospective in 1956. Nationalité : Ukrainian then American 1897-? Ben-Zion, Einav Naissance - mort : Active during the second half of the 20th Century Nationalité : Israeli Benaroya, Albert Naissance - mort : 1963- Nationalité : Turkish then Israeli Benarrouche, Yoel Naissance - mort : 1935- Nationalité : Israeli

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