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Julian Alper — Painting the Etrog: A Topsy-Turvy Tale of Etrog Painting

JL;DR SUMMARY Julian Alper explores the symbolism of etrog and lulav through the lens of Jewish art, specifically focusing on paintings by Marc Chagall and Paula Gans. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Marc ChagallJewish HistoryJewish ArtJewish SymbolismJewish FutureSukkotEtrogRabbi Dr. Norman LammLulavPaula Gans

Places mentioned

Prague, Středočeský, Czechia
"Paula Gans, a portrait painter of some note, was born in 1883 near Prague."
Hamburg, Germany
"She moved to Hamburg in 1920 with her brother, Richard."
Vitebsk, Belarus
"He left his birthplace Vitebsk in Belarus in 1923, only to find himself in Vichy France at the outbreak of WW2."
Minsk, Belarus
"In November 1941 they were informed they were to be deported to the Minsk ghetto."
Vichy, Vaucluse, France
"He left his birthplace Vitebsk in Belarus in 1923, only to find himself in Vichy France at the outbreak of WW2."
Israel
"I hold my lulav and etrog upright, hoping and praying that the future of the Jewish people and the future of Israel will be as bright as my lemon-yellow etrog."
United States
"he managed to escape in 1941 just in time, together with his wife Bella, and spent the remainder of the war and the immediate post-war years in the US."

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