Arnold Schwartzman
Author of Airshipwreck
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Art Deco: The Twentieth Century's Iconic Decorative Style from Paris, London, and Brussels to New York, Sydney,… (2019) 13 copies
Code Name: The Long Sobbing: The Allies, the Axis, and the Victims: An Anth ology from D-day to V-e Day (1994) 11 copies
Persistence of Vision: Arnold Schwartzman--The Graphic Design & Films of Arnold Schwartzman (2005) 8 copies
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This book is about the Jewish prohibition on graven images (the second commandment) and how gravestone craftsmen somehow didn't quite follow that commandment. The book goes on to describe and show color photographs of these "graven images" from gravestones, both Ashkenazic and Sephardic, in several European countries. Each symbol is explained with a biblical quote and then followed by a more detailed and specific explanation.
The most disturbing picture of the book was of a wall built by non-Jewish students from 15th- and 16th-century gravestones desecrated during World War II. It just served to remind me that gravestone desecration in Jewish cemeteries is not simply a happening of the distant past.… (more)