Who Was Camille Pissarro? Originally Published July 10-11, 2020.
July 10, 2020
In 1995, an American art collecting couple, Bruce and Robbi Toll, bought the 1887 painting Picking Peas, by Camille Pissarro, for $800,000. They lent it to the Marmottan museum in Paris, where it came to light that it had been confiscated from its Jewish owner, Simon Bauer, in 1943 by the Germans occupying France. Bauer’s […]
Who Was Belle Miriam (Silverman) Greenough? Originally Published May 22-23, 2020.
May 22, 2020
May is Jewish American Heritage Month! Belle Miriam Silverman was born on May 25, 1929, in Brooklyn, NY, to insurance broker Morris Silverman and musician Sonia (Shirley Bahn) Silverman. She would become a powerful presence in many ways. We lost her on July 2, 2007, to lung cancer. Belle began performing at age three, was […]