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Marc Chagall [a] (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985 [b]) was a Russian and French artist. [c] An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art ...
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Asch wrote the drama Got fun nekome (God of Vengeance) in the winter of 1906 in Cologne, Germany. [4] It is about a Jewish brothel owner who attempts to become respectable by commissioning a Torah scroll and marrying off his daughter to a yeshiva student. Set in a brothel, the play includes Jewish prostitutes and a lesbian scene. [5] I. L.
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The Marc Chagall Art Center, at 2 Putna Street, was opened in 1992. Exhibitions of graphic works by Chagall from the museum's collection are held here: woodcuts, etchings, aquatints, a series of illustrations of Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls" (1923-1925), a series of color lithographs from 1956 and 1960 on the theme of the Bible, a cycle of colour lithographs entitled The 12 tribes of ...
Ida was born on May 18, 1916, in Vitebsk, Russia, the only child of painter, Marc Chagall. [1] Her mother, Bella Rosenfeld (1895-1944), [2] was a Yiddish writer and a source of inspiration for her husband. The Russian Revolution had a profound impact on the entire family, including Ida. [3] [4]
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Fellow Guardian crossword compiler and friend Sandy Balfour was with Graham on the night of his death, reading to him. A year after his death, on 27 November 2014, The Guardian published a crossword with the grid and some clues compiled by him but completed by his friend and fellow compiler 'Philistine'. [ 12 ]