YAACOV KASZEMACHER Signed Ltd Ed Lithograph, signature to lower right reads ‘Kaszemacher’, inscription to lower left reads ‘Zefat’, biography affixed to reverse, subject a man walking down an alley, measures 22 1/8 x 12 7/8 inches, gilt wooden frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed and double matted in blue, not examined out of frame, Property of White Plains, New York estate, Ya'acov Kaszemacher, well-known artist and photographer whose unique images of Hasidic festivities are fascinating to view, and offer one an opportunity to peek into the community during its most joyous moments. Yaakov Kaszemacher was born in France to Jewish Polish refugees who raised him in a secular environment. He became involved with the beatniks of the ‘50s and then the hippies of the ‘60s, both in the nightclubs of St. Germain Des Pres in Paris and then in Greenwich Village in New York. He embarked on a spiritual quest in 1971 and decided to live in Tzfat where he infused his artwork with Jewish, Hassidic and Kabbalistic content.