Description
Abraham Hitman, a holocaust survivor who lived in Ramat Gan, Israel, painted at least two synagogue interiors in the 1970s: the “Zichron Kedoshem” synagogue in Ramat Gan and another synagogue in Kfar Habad. These two were among the last synagogues in the state of Israel whose interiors were painted according to the Eastern-European tradition. Like some other synagogue painters before him, Hitman was not a professional artist but a craftsman who painted apartment interiors for his living. Hence, he followed the early eastern European tradition of painting synagogue interiors by artisans, not artists. In his works, he combined motifs abundant in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust with newer ones that originated in the land and state of Israel. The paper presents Abraham Hitman’s work compared to the paintings of other synagogue painters before and after the Holocaust, marking his creation as one of this great eastern European tradition’s last sparks before entering a period of Jewish Iconoclasm during the 1980s.| Period | 16 Nov 2022 |
|---|---|
| Event title | The Holocaust and Genocide in the 21st Century: A Grievous Yet Never Ending Story |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | ArielShow on map |