{"title":"Art \u0026 Photography Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our Art \u0026amp; Photography Books collection. Best Price.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lives-remembered-a-shtetl-through-a-photographers-eye-by-louis-d-levine","title":"Lives Remembered: A Shtetl Through a Photographers' Eye by Louis D. Levine","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eZalman Kaplan, the towns photographer, captured the history of Szczuczyn from within the community. So in addition to photographing the town cemetery and architecture and meetings, he also recorded Purim parties, family portraits, bicycle excursions, and other moments of carefree life. What is so poignant is that the towns nearly 3,000 Jews, pictured leading vibrant and joyful lives, had no idea what disastrous fate was to befall them. Compelling essays by Jonathan Rosen and Jeffrey Shandler provide excellent context for understanding the shtetl of Szczuczyn. Rosens essay, for example, draws a parallel to September 11, how the photographs used on missing posters and in newspapers were of the subject at a time of joy. Photographs of lives lived, like the portraits in the book, now symbolize not how these people lived, but how they died.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43495247380541,"sku":"bzu1787285401396","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/1470\/9053\/files\/lives-remembered-a-shtetl-through-a-photographers-eye-by-louis-d-levine_1.jpg?v=1787285406"},{"product_id":"jewish-life-in-poland-the-art-of-moshe-rynecki-1881-1943-by-moshe-rynecki","title":"Jewish Life In Poland: The Art of Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943) by Moshe Rynecki","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMoshe Rynecki used his paintbrush and palette to document and chronicle the life of his community-Jewish people of Warsaw, Poland. Some artists, however, do more than simply document the subjects that they see and watch-they use the canvas to reveal something new-to show us that which we did not see at first, that which we might not consider if we had observed the subject ourselves. While some might have seen a group of men sitting at a table studying the Talmud, Rynecki reveal the Rabbi gesticulating as he talks, he shows the men's spines bent from spending so much time studying, he shows the tallit wrapped across the shoulders of those who have put their heads down for a brief rest, and he makes visible the light that gently streams into the darkened room.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRynecki's drive and ambition to paint came early in life and it came from within. When he was five years old he used chalk and crude brushed to paint on the walls and floors of his parents' home. As he grew older, he always carried a sketchbook with him so that he could quickly draw that which caught his attention-people, their expressions, their hands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile Rynecki spent much of his life painting the Jewish community, he also witnessed a great deal of change to his country, from the almost constant political turmoil that characterized Poland's brief independence between the World Wars, to the onset of Soviet aggression, and Nazi brutality at the start of the Second World War.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRynecki, much to his son's dismay, willingly lived inside the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto. While his son warned him that the Nazi forced were not to be trusted, he only said, \"If you are right my son, then let me go where my brothers and sisters go. And if it's death, so be it.\" Ultimately, Rynecki was deported to the Majdanek concentration camp where he perished.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43495247446077,"sku":"ivh1787285403509","price":9.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/1470\/9053\/files\/jewish-life-in-poland-the-art-of-moshe-rynecki-1881-1943-by-moshe-rynecki_1.jpg?v=1787285408"}],"url":"https:\/\/ownstyleboutique.shop\/collections\/art-photography-books.oembed","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}