Ber Zalkind
Illustration — Ber Zalkind. “Cartoon of Violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.” 1913 Ber Zalkind (1878-1944) was a Lithuanian Jewish painter. He studied in Paris, France and was a member of the Artists' Association of Vilna from 1909.
Ber Zalkind

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- Ber Zalkind was born in 1878.
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- Ber Zalkind died in 1944.
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Illustration — Ber Zalkind. “Cartoon of Violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.” 1913 Ber Zalkind (1878-1944) was a Lithuanian Jewish painter. He studied in Paris, France and was a member of the Artists' Association of Vilna from 1909.
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Ber Zalkind (1878–1944) was a painter.

"In the Strashun Library": a postcard from the "Vilner yidishe geto" (Vilnius Jewish Ghetto) series - ten postcards with illustrations by Ber Zalkind and background inscriptions by Khaykl Lunski (on the back; does not show here).
Ber Zalkind, Khaykl Lunski (Kunst Pub., Vilnius) · Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen (Kedem Auction House
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- 1.Adrian M. Darmon Autour de l'art juif: encyclopédie des peintres, photographes p115 2003
- 2.Yiddish language & culture then & now Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium, Leonard Jay Greenspoon, Creighton University. Center for the Study of Religion and Society - 1998 "... an article entitled "Let's Protect the Old Cemetery," art teacher Ber Zalkind argued for the site's "great historical significance and [its] even greater art historical value" and called on his readers to support its preservation."
- 3.Hirsz Abramowicz, Eva Zeitlin Dobkin, Dina Abramowicz - Profiles of a lost world: memoirs of East European Jewish life 1999 p272 "Ber Zalkind's colorist landscapes were there, as well as Jacob Szer's caricatures and views of various Vilna neighborhoods."
- 4.Poles, Jews, socialists: the failure of an ideal Antony Polonsky - 1996 "Fugitive artists included Moshe Libovski, Ber Zalkind, and A. Bialogurski: Di idishe shtime (31 Oct. 1939), "
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