Leonard Baskin: Judaica Printwork

Being Jewish confounds things. The people of the book are intelligently defined as a religion. I, a believing atheist, proudly declare my jewishness. It is to Yiddish that my spirit warms; to that heritage of persecution and sensual denial, that Yiddish so richly expresses. Not religion, but religious texts: not beliefs or superstition, fear or malignant custom, but the literacy, artistic, cultural and human relics of that religion.

— Leonard Baskin   May 27,1990

Prophets (1949)

 

Old Testament Series (1975-76)

 

Angels to the Jews (1991)

 

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