Image Catalogue
Joseph Dorfman Memorial
Concert
Composer, Teacher, Concert Pianist
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One of the few Jewish artists tolerated by Stalin, Anatoly Kaplan (1902-1980) preserved the world of his childhood in his art works. A contemporary of Joseph Dorfman, he portrayed the tradition of Jewish people in a bygone era. Life of Jews in "shtetl" (the villages in the Ukraine, with a large Jewish population) was his principal theme. These are woodcuts he made for scenes from some of the poems in Shostakovich’s song cycle From Yiddish Folk Poetry, opus 79.
From the portfolio The Little
Goat, c. 1960
printed in Leningrad
From the portfolio The Little
Goat, c. 1960
printed in Leningrad
From the book The Bewitched
Tailor, Chapter VII - The Tailor complains to the Rabbi that he has been
cheated.
1954 - 1957
printed in Leningrad
From the book The Bewitched
Tailor, Chapter XII - The inhabitants complain to the Rabbi about
injustice to the poor.
1954 - 1957
printed in Leningrad