Category Archives: Sketchbook
What’s All This?
Klezmerband
Anxiety
Trying to get my head and my finances together yesterday. Went to the HRA office to apply for food stamps. I have a lot of anxiety around getting my finances together but I think it’s gonna be ok. I felt a lot better after making this drawing.
Made this sketch while I was waiting earlier in the day.
Polish Jews
- Old Jew [Warsaw]
- Grandfather and granddaughter [Warsaw]
- Hasid in furred hat [Cracow]
- Synagogue court [Vilna]
- Jewish shopkeepers and merchants
Some sketches I have been making as warm-up drawings lately from Polish Jews, photographs by Roman Vishniac of pre-war Jewish life published by Schocken Books in 1947.
For more on this book, check out this fascinating article about Roman Vishniac and the received images we have of pre-war Jewish life in Eastern Europe from the New York Times.