Chaim Goldberg was a Polish-Israeli-American artist, painter, sculptor, and engraver. He is known for being a chronicler of Jewish life in the eastern European Polish villages like the one in his nati
Chaim Goldberg, circa 1995
Goldberg. circa 1995. He could still hear the sounds of his village, the picturesque Kazimierz Dolny in SE Poland by the Vistula river.
Circa 1931, in front of his home before going to the Mehoffer Art Academy on a full scholarship.
Goldberg, the youngest student to be accepted in 1934, with the student body accepted to the academy that year. (Goldberg is standing to the left of the professor, holding a bottle of wine)
Shtetl or shtetel is a Yiddish term for small towns with substantial Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The term is used in the context of pre-Second Wo
Chaim Goldberg
…Polish-Israeli-American artist, painter, sculptor, and engraver. He is known for being a chronicler of Jewish life in the eastern European Polish villages (or shtetlekh) like the one in his native Kazimierz Dolny in south-eastern Poland. He witnessed the colorful life and began to draw what he saw. The recurring art…
An 1893 painting by the artist Isaak Asknaziy of a Jewish wedding with a klezmer band in a shtetl
A reconstruction of a traditional Jewish shtetl in the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town, as it would have appeared in Lithuania
Interior of a wooden dwelling in a traditional Lithuanian shtetl, reconstructed in the South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town