Gershon Iskowitz
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title:
Gershon Iskowitz
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Gershon Iskowitz was a Canadian artist of Jewish background originally from Poland. Iskowitz was a Holocaust survivor of the Kielce Ghetto, who was liberated at Buchenwald. The circumstances of his early life—the trauma of the Holocaust and the uncertainty of the immediate postwar period, followed by immigration and adaptation to Canada—provide a lens through which to understand and appreciate his work. His early figurative images represent his tragic observed and remembered experiences while hi
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Polish-born Jewish Canadian artist (1921-1988)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershon_Iskowitz
date created:
2010-07-07T21:42:33Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T18:33:58Z
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