בידספיריט | The Artists of the Kultur-Lige

The Artists of the Kultur-Lige by Hillel (Gregory) Kazovsky. Jerusalem and Moscow, 2003 - In English and Russian 344 pages, 290 illustrations, 213 in color. The Kultur-Lige was a Jewish cultural organization established in 1918 in Kiev with a goal to produce the modern Yiddish culture, which was at the same time national and universal. Later the organization spread to Moscow, Kaunas, Czernowitz, Warsaw etc. This book is devoted to the Jewish artists who belonged to the Arts Section of this league, amongst whom are the world-famous Jewish painters Marc Chagall, Nathan Altman and El Lissitzky. Created in the 1918 - early 1920s, modern Jewish art combined traditional Jewish folklore motifs with the most avant-garde concepts of the contemporary art of the day. The book is accompanied by 213 reproductions of the works of the artists associated with the Kultur-Lige: David Shterenberg, Abram Manevich, Robert Falk, Marc Chagall, Joseph Tchaikov, Nathan Altman, El Lissitzky, Nisson Shifrin, Isaak Rabinovich, Isaak Rabichev, Issachar Ber Ryback, Lev Halperin, Sarah Shor, Pauline Khentova, Mark Epstein, Boris Aronson, Solomon Nikritin, Alexander Tyshler, Iosif Elman, Mark Sheikhel, Alexander Labas, Zfania-Gedali Kipnis, Khaim Mastbaum, Shulim Kotkis, Hersh Inger.