Tag: Friedl Dicker Brandeis
What’s New with Prague’s Old-New Synagogue, And Old Jewish Cemetery?
When on April 5th, First Lady Michelle Obama visited Prague's Pinkas Synagogue with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, and David Axelrod, a senior White House advisor, she expressed particular interest in the synagogue's collection of drawings by children from the concentration camp of Terezín, which they created under the tutelage of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898-1944).
Art As Optimism And Therapy – Friedl Dicker-Brandeis At The Jewish Museum
Oftentimes, one will find it far more useful to engage a piece of art in terms of what issues it raises and what questions it asks, rather than what ideological statements it offers or answers it proposes.