"Moonlit Jewish Judaica Wedding/Chupa in the Shtetl/Alter Heim," oil on canvas, 18 x 29 inches, signed.Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1903, Simon Karczmar studied art in Paris, where he lived for twenty years. Although he left France for Israel in 1962, most of his work evokes his experiences in Eastern Europe.In 1962 he joined the Artist Colony in Safed. He represented Israel at exhibitions in Mexico, Canada, U.S.A. and Europe. Karczmar draws inspiration from his childhood memories of the vacations he spent at his grandfather's house in Lithuania. The word shtetl is Yiddish for little town and refers to the villages with significant Jewish populations that could once be found throughout Eastern Europe. His works weep with a classic Eastern European naivety. Memories of a vanished world.

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