Pinhus Kremen was born on July 28, 1890 in the town of Zholudok, Vilna province, died on April 5, 1981 in the town of Seret, Eastern Pyrenees, France. French avant-garde artist of the Paris School of Lithuanian origin. In addition to painting, he was also involved in sculpture and graphics. In 1912 he settled in Paris, where he met Chagall, Leger, Zadkine, Modigliani, Derain.

Efim Bentsionovich Ladyzhensky (1911, Odessa, Russian Empire - 1982, Jerusalem, Israel) - Soviet theater artist and painter.
He studied at the theater department of the Odessa Art Institute (1927-1931), including drawing with Yu. R. Bershadsky.
He worked as an artist in theaters in Krasnodar, Tashkent, Ashgabat and Moscow.
Lived and worked in Moscow since 1936.

Lev Leonidovich Mezhberg is an artist who received recognition throughout the world during his lifetime.

Mikhail Shemyakin, one of the leaders of the Russian artistic avant-garde, a man not very generous with praise, called Lev Mezhberg “the best colorist in modern world painting.”

Odessa artist - this definition very accurately characterizes the essence of the mentality of Lev Mezhberg, who for American gallery owners was Leo Mezhberg, and for Odessa residents - forever Lyusik.

He was born on August 24, 1933 in Odessa. He began drawing at the age of three, earlier than reading and writing, and at the age of four he created his first self-portrait. In 1950 he graduated with honors from the children's art school, the next stage was art school. He was lucky here. His teacher was Dina Mikhailovna Frumina, who recognized a talented painter in his student and gave him the opportunity to liberate himself from the official dogmas of socialist realism.

On September 5, 1903, Markus Yakovlevich Rothkovich, now known to everyone as Mark Rothko, was born. Having become an artist, he remained a revolutionary all his life. When he was asked to paint a series of murals for the expensive New York restaurant Four Seasons in 1958, he agreed: “I intend to kill the appetite of every son of a bitch who comes to eat in this room.” According to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stanley Kunitz, Rothko became “the last rabbi of Western art.”

Meir Lazar was born on October 4, 1923 in the city of Galati (Romania). Immediately after his birth, the family moved to Bucharest. From early childhood he began to draw. He entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, one of the most famous art schools in Eastern Europe at that time.
In 1941, Romania entered the war on the side of Germany, and the artist was sent to a forced labor camp in Transnistria, from where he escaped in 1944 back to Bucharest. He made most of the journey on foot and returned home with serious leg injuries.
In 1944, he was lucky: as part of the youth aliyah, he managed to emigrate to Palestine. The repatriation channel passed through Istanbul. That year, 10 ships with 4,000 repatriates arrived from Constanta to Turkey. But not all of them were destined to make it, since on August 5 the Romanian ship "Mafkura" with 300 Jews was sunk on the way to Palestine by an unknown submarine.
The artist settled in Kibbutz Kfar Glikson. The kibbutz was named after Moshe Yosef Glikson, a Zionist leader and journalist, leader of the HaNoar HaTzioni youth movement and editor of the newspaper Haaretz for 15 years.
There, Meir had to work in the fields, which, of course, did not coincide with his desire to devote himself to painting, which he continued to study at the “Studio” of Aaron Avni in Tel Aviv - the center of Parisian Jewish expressionism, where Yehezkel Shtreichman and Avigdor Stematsky taught.

Sigmund Menkes was born on May 6, 1896 into a poor Jewish family in Lemberg. This is exactly what today's Lviv was called in German until 1918, after the First Partition of Poland in 1772, when the city became the capital of the Austrian province - the formally independent Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.
He grew up in a large family - he had five brothers and sisters, about whose fate nothing is known. From an early age, Sigmund was fond of drawing, but at the same time he was very fond of music. His mother Rosa Menkes (nee Elb) was a passionate lover of music, her son shared her passion and at one time even wanted to become a musician. Perhaps this is why musicians and musical instruments are often present in his paintings.

Amedeo (Iedidia) Clemente Modigliani (1884, Livorno-1920, Paris) - Italian artist and sculptor, one of the most famous artists of the early 20th century, a representative of expressionism. Modigliani grew up in Italy, where he studied ancient art and the works of the Renaissance masters, until he moved to Paris in 1906. In Paris, he met artists such as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brancusi, who had a great influence on his work. Modigliani had poor health - he often suffered from lung diseases and died of tuberculous meningitis at the age of 35. The artist’s life is known only from a few reliable sources.

Amshey Markovich Nuremberg (1887, Elisavetgrad - 1979, Moscow) - Russian and Ukrainian Soviet artist, graphic artist, art critic, author of memoir prose.
In 1904-1910 Studied painting at the Odessa Art School with Professor Kiriak Kostandi. After graduating from college, he went to continue his education in Paris. He lived in the Latin Quarter among Russian artists. For a year he shared the same studio with M. Chagall in the phalanstery “La Ruche”.

Felix Nussbaum (1904, Germany - 1944, Auschwitz) - German artist, representative of the artistic style New Objectivity. The building of the Felix Nussbaum Museum, in accordance with the architect's plans, completely falls out of the architectural ensemble of the small university town of Osnabrück.

Joseph Meerovich Ostrovsky (1935-1993) - Soviet and Israeli artist, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, member of the World Association of Painters and Sculptors.

In 1950-1955 he studied at the painting department of the Odessa Art School, on the same course with Leonid Mezheritsky, Lev Mezhberg and Gennady Malyshev. Odessa museums and traditions became their first school of painting. Among the teachers was Dina Frumina. Since December 1989 he lived and worked in Israel, and was the main artist of the city of Sderot.

Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (according to documents: Avrum Yitskhok-Leib Posternak or Isaac Iosifovich Pasternak (1862, Odessa - Oxford) - Russian painter and graphic artist of Jewish origin; master of genre compositions and book illustration; teacher. Father of the writer and poet Boris Pasternak and architect Alexander Pasternak .

Yudel Moiseevich Pen (sometimes Yudal and Yuri, at different periods of life patronymic Moishevich, Movshovich and Movshevich, surname - Yudel Pen (1854 - 1937) - Russian, later Belarusian Soviet painter, teacher, prominent figure in the "Jewish Renaissance" in the art of the early 20th century Also known as the teacher of Marc Chagall, Ilya (Ruben) Moiseevich Mazel.

Alexander Anatolyevich Roitburd (1961, Odessa) - Soviet and Ukrainian artist, director of the Odessa Art Museum. In 1993 he co-founded the “New Art” association (Odessa). Since 1993 he worked there as art director, from 1999 to 2001 - president. He worked as director of the Marat Gelman Gallery in Kyiv. Lives and works in Kyiv and Odessa.

Reuven Rubin (born Rubin Zelikovich (1893, Galati - 1974, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli modernist artist, one of the founders of Israeli painting. Quite quickly, Rubin was recognized as one of the leading artists of Mandatory Palestine. In the 1920s, Rubin developed his own a style close to modernism, but based on Palestinian themes. Paintings from this period are distinguished by bright colors and clear composition. In 1922, he created one of his most famous works, the triptych "First Fruits"

Samuel (or Samuel) Buck was born in August 1933 in Vilna, which was then part of Poland. The trauma of the Holocaust had a profound influence on his subsequent fiction. Baka's paintings are a look into the basic elements of life (fear, horror, grief, hope, faith, love, memory) through personal experiences and through the experiences of his people.

Бру́но Яковлевич Шульц (1892—1942) — польский писатель и художник еврейского происхождения. Наиболее известен сборниками рассказов «Коричные лавки» и «Санатория под клепсидрой». Жил и работал в Дрогобыче, где его творчеству посвящён литературный музей. Бруно Шульцу покровительствовал гауптшарфюрер Феликс Ландау. В ноябре 1942 года Ландау убил личного дантиста офицера СС Карла Гюнтера. В качестве мести Гюнтер убил Бруно Шульца и сказал: «ты убил моего еврея — я убил твоего». Якобы найденной книге Шульца «Мессия» посвящён роман американской писательницы Синтии Озик «Мессия из Стокгольма» (1987). О нём написан роман израильского писателя Давида Гроссмана «Бруно» (1986), повесть-хроника Бориса Хазанова «Чудотворец» (1990), роман итальянского прозаика Уго Риккарелли «Человек по имени, кажется, Шульц» (1998). Его влияние на свою прозу признавали Богумил Грабал, Данило Киш, Филип Рот, Исаак Башевис-Зингер. В США учреждена премия Бруно Шульца лучшему зарубежному автору года, одним из её лауреатов был Данило Киш.

Lazar Segal (1891, Vilna, then Russian Empire - 1957, Sao Paulo) - Brazilian painter and graphic artist, sculptor. Born into a Jewish family, his father is a Torah scribe. At the age of 15 he came to Berlin, studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts (1906-1909), then at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Dissatisfied with the academic style of teaching, in 1910 he left for Dresden and taught at the evening Academy of Arts. He met Otto Dix and George Grosz, became close with the Free Secession group, then with the Most group, and subsequently with the Dresden Secession association. He published several books with his engravings and exhibited with German expressionists

Shor Sarra Markovna (1897, Dubno, Volyn province, now Ukraine - 1981, Moscow), painter, graphic artist, theater artist.
Shor took her first professional lessons in drawing and painting while studying at the Dubnovo gymnasium from A. M. Rudchenko, an exiled student of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, who taught drawing and painting there. In 1911 she entered the Kiev Art School, in the painting class of I. Makushenko and G. Dyadchenko. During her studies, she became close to a group of young Jewish artists (I. Rabinovich, I. B. Rybak, A. Tyshler and others), students of the school who were interested in modern trends in art. In the winter of 1914, Shore took part in the exhibition “The Ring”, organized by prominent Russian avant-garde artists Alexandra Ekster and A. Bogomazov.

Еще совсем недавно еврейское искусство было погребено под «культурным слоем» разного рода спекуляций и мифов, спецхранов и труднодоступных запасников провинциальных музеев, где произведения еврейских художников нередко не могли быть правильно атрибутированы. Сама специфика общественно-политической атмосферы, в которой существовало еврейское искусство в Советском Союзе, не могла не наложить свой трагический отпечаток на судьбу еврейских художников, вынужденных иногда «спрямлять углы» своей творческой биографии, «забывать» о значительных ее периодах и даже уничтожать работы. В этом смысле Сара Шор не является исключением.

David Petrovich Shterenberg (1881, Zhitomir - 1948, Moscow) - Russian and Soviet artist, painter and graphic artist, one of the main representatives of modern Russian fine art of the first half of the 20th century. Born in 1881 into a Jewish family in Zhitomir, his father was a clerk. He was a photographer's student in Odessa and was fond of revolutionary ideas. In 1906, as an active member of the Bund, he was forced to emigrate from Russia to Vienna. From 1907 to 1917 he lived in Paris. In Paris he studied phototypes and studied painting, first at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and then at the Vitti Academy. Among his fellow students was the Dutch artist Kees van Dongen. Shterenberg lived in the famous Parisian phalanstery “The Beehive”.
The artist was influenced by the work of Paul Cezanne and Cubism. Since 1912 he took part in exhibitions at the Paris Salon. Later he joined the Salon of Independents, becoming close to other artists of the Parisian school: Lipchitz, Kisling, Diego Rivera, Marc Chagall and others. Shterenberg's paintings from the Parisian period are often contradictory and heterogeneous. The artist would develop a recognizable style only towards the end of his stay in Paris.