Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit Jude Ellison S. Doyle FEATURED ON 25 BEST OF

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She craves adventure when there is none to be had

an adult grappling with her childhood

Winner of Broken Frontier’s 2021 Award for Best One-Shot Anthology

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Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit Jude Ellison S. Doyle FEATURED ON 25 BEST OFBy Kerry Wallach, art by Rahel Szalit. Published by Pennsylvania State University Press. Hardcover, 312 pages, text with B&W and Colour images, 2024. Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888 1942) was among the best known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have been