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Irene lovely

Irene Lieblich (born Irene Wechter in Zamość April 20, 1923 ; died December 28, 2008 ) was a Polish - American poet , painter, and illustrator who survived the Holocaust . She achieved fame above all for her illustrations of the Yiddish-language children's books by the Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer .

life and work

Irene Lieblich was the daughter of Leon Wechter and Chana Wechter nee. Brondwajn. The family lived in Zamość, where Irene attended the Jewish high school. Her father worked as a country doctor in the shtetl around Zamość. Her younger brother Nathan was killed in the Holocaust.

In 1946 Irene and Jacob Solomon married Lieblich. They had two children, Nathan and Mahli. In 1952 the family emigrated to the USA and initially lived in Chicago . She later moved to Brooklyn , where she lived from 1955 to 1980. From there, Lieblich moved to Miami Beach with her husband .

During her time in Brooklyn, Irene Lieblich published poetry in newspapers and magazines, including the Yiddish newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward . It was not until she was 48 that she took courses at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and began to paint. In 1972 she won first prize at the Art Festival of the Farband in New York .

In 1973 and 1974 she took part in an exhibition by Artists Equity in New York. There the writer Isaac Bashevis Singer saw her pictures. Lieblich and Singer became friends, and she illustrated two of his books, A Tale of Three Wishes , published in 1976, and The Power of Light. Eight Stories for Hanukkah , published 1980.

Lieblich's pictures are in the tradition of Eastern European folk art and show Jewish life and customs, especially in Lieblich's home in Eastern Europe. Her experiences of war and persecution are also reflected in her pictures.

From 2009 Lieblich's book illustrations were part of the traveling exhibition Isaac Bashevis Singer and his Artists .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jewish High School students from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , accessed August 14, 2016.
  2. ^ Obituary of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Their Descendants dated December 28, 2008, accessed August 14, 2016.
  3. ^ Richard McBee: Singer's Artists. In: The Jewish Press. December 2, 2009, accessed August 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Isaac Bashevis Singer and His Artists on the Hebrew Union College website , accessed August 14, 2016.
  5. ↑ Isaac Bashevis Singer and his Artists on the pages of the Yiddish Book Center, accessed August 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Lovely, Irene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wechter, Irene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-American poet, painter and illustrator, Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Zamość
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2008