Crime of the Centuries

Click Here to Read:  Crime of the Centuries  Tomb raiders, crooked art dealers, and museum curators fed Michael Steinhardt’s addiction to antiquities. Many were also stolen By Greg Donahue in New York Magazine on  February 15, 2023.
 Table support with a statue of Pan Lent by the Judy and Michael Steinhardt Collection, New York. Roman artwork of the Imperial period. Image: Marie-Lan Nguyen.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

 

How this portrait of Marc Chagall’s father finally wound up where it belonged

Click Here to Read: How this portrait of Marc Chagall’s father finally wound up where it belonged: The 1911 painting was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939 by By Cathryn J. Prince on the Forward website on February 13, 2023.

The Father, Marc Chagall, Paris (1911) Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme Image: Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Jews in the Spanish Civil War By Martin Sugarman (1936 – 1939)

Click Here to Read: Jews in the Spanish Civil War By Martin Sugarman (1936 – 1939) on the Jewish Virtual Library website.

Memorial to Republican-supporting Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. The English inscription reads “Homage to the Jewish heros who, out of the 7000 Jewish volunteers from all countries, fighters of freedom, fell in Spain 1936–1939”. Image: LittleDwangs.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.\