1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (175+ words) Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content. [Wikipedia] He is best known for his…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (143+ words) By Sam Ben-Meir in New York City to write poetry after Auschwitz is obscene– but what he meant was that it is inexcusable to write poetry as though Auschwitz never happened, as though we could go on as before, as…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (71+ words) San Diego Jewish World He is an archivist and interpreter for the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook In 1988, he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theater songs Feinstein is a five-time Grammy-nominated recording artist…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (140+ words) Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre both for the stage and on…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (110+ words) Shlomo Bentin (August 26, 1946 – July 13, 2012) was an Israeli neuropsychologist and recipient of the 2012 Israel Prize in psychology. Bentin was a professor of psychology and education and a member of the Center for Neural Computation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [Wikipedia]…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (162+ words) Jacques Lipchitz (August 22, 1891 – May 26, 1973) was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of Crystal Cubism. [Wikipedia]…...