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Politicians, religious leaders and scientific pioneers are truly important people, but a culture is nothing without its artists. In the study of many civilizations of antiquity, art is all we have left. How much would we know about ancient Egypt without the statues and the paintings preserved inside of the tombs of kings? How deep would our understanding be of the daily lives of the Sumerian people without the fragments of personal votives found in the ruins of a home? Artists document the soul of a people. Without them, our collective histories are nothing but a series of facts, like bones with neither flesh nor blood.

One of the greatest artists of the Jewish culture is Marc Chagall. His colorful, lively paintings depict the joyous spirit of our people using the strange geometry of Modernism that was otherwise so often dark and troubled. Chagall studied under many talented painters, sculptors and theatre professionals in his youth. He faced anti-semitism his whole life but never lost his passion and hope. Read more