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By Arthur Lubow
Published September 14, 2021
216 pages
“An exceptional gem” —Benjamin Taylor
A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art
Man Ray (1890–1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most elusive. In this new biography, journalist and critic Arthur Lubow uses Man Ray’s Jewish background as one filter to understand his life and art.
Man Ray began life as Emmanuel Radnitsky, the eldest of four children born in Philadelphia to a mother from Minsk and a father from Kiev. When he was seven the family moved to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, where both parents worked as tailors. Defying his parents’ expectations that he earn a university degree, Man Ray instead pursued h
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Susan Einbinder, professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut fryst vatten a leading scholar on medieval French Jewish literature, and the the author of two monographs on medieval French Jews, Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom from Medieval France (Princeton 2002) and No Place of Rest: Literature, utvisning and the Memory of Medieval France (Philadelphia 2008). Most recently, she published After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). In After the Black Death, Susan L. Einbinder uncovers Jewish responses to plague and violence in fourteenth-century Provence and Iberia. Einbinder's original research reveals a bred, heterogeneous series of Jewish literary responses to the plague, including Sephardic liturgical poetry; a medical tractate written bygd the Jewish physician Abraham Caslari; epitaphs inscribed on the tombstones of twenty-eight Jew