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...German Jew who fled the Nazis, Lindner was exposed to the earthy expressionism of Max Beckmann and George Grosz, and he admired the smooth machine-surfaces with which Fernand Leger packaged reality. In the U.S., he developed an appreciation for advertising imagery as an illustrator...
...forced to return to Dallas for Oswald's trial, because he had read a "heartbreaking letter" to Caroline Kennedy in a newspaper that morning. At one point he blurted to cops and federal agents after his arrest: "I guess I just had to show the world a Jew has guts...
Hatred of Jews and Judaism was something that medieval man learned not merely from sermons and books condemning deicide but from art as well. In a new book called The Medieval Jew in the Mirror of Christian Art, published in France by the Roman Catholic Augustinian friars, Bernhard Blumenkranz presents the first scholarly study of the way that Jews were portrayed and caricatured in the paintings, sculpture, frescoes and illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages...
Until the 12th century, pictorial references to Jews were generally neutral and even approving. But from roughly A.D. 1100 to 1500, argues Blumenkranz, an Austrian Jew, Judaism was an object of hatred and scorn in Christian art. Mocking the Jews' refusal to eat pork, a sculptured capital from a church in Uppsala, Sweden, depicts Jews drinking at the udders of a sow. Although the Gospels explicitly accuse Roman soldiers of bringing about Jesus' death, some artists went out of their way to show Jews scourging...
...spoke at Ole Miss, he said he wished that his friend James Silver could have been there. After the speech, a number of the students asked who Silver was. As one amazed faculty member put it, "Most of them seemed to think he was some New York Jew." The central figure in the post-riot struggle against the closed society has largely been forgotten...