Portrait of the writer Salamon Dembitzer; New York Portraits Men

Digital Image

Portrait of the rabbi and writer Bruno Italiener at an 80th birthday celebration; Luxembourg Portraits Men

Includes handwritten correspondence from Bruno Italiener dated 17 September 1953

Study of the Prophet Ezekiel.

Signed and titled lower center, with a dedication to the LeoBaeck Institute, dated 1961.

To the Mothers of the Twelve Thousand.

The size of the work and the printed title suggests, that this is a poster. It bears the emblem R.J.F., for the sponsoring organization, Reichsbund Juedischer Frontsoldaten or National Organization of the Jewish Front-line Soldiers. The mothers of "The twelve thousand" refers to the Jewish soldiers killed during World War I, when reminding Germans of the patriotism and sacrifices of German Jews, seemed important in view of the discrimination they were confronted with at the time, in 1935.