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Izhar Patkin at Holly Solomon.

From: Art in America  |  Date: 2/1/1999  |  Author: Heartney, Eleanor

With this exhibition Izhar Patkin excavates a little-known episode from Jewish history to shed light on the precarious status of even the most accomplished and assimilated German Jews in 18th-century Prussia. Patkin takes as his playing field the history of three generations of the Mendelssohn family. Patriarch Moses was a prominent philosopher, businessman and author, and a fervent apostle of Jewish emancipation. His daughter, who changed her name to Dorothea von Schlegel, was an ...

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