Boris Dubrov. «Shoemaker Shuster»


Oil on canvas. 90х120. 2004. Private collection, USA

Gallery: Judaica

Bathen, Zeygermaher, Shneyder, Glazer, Kaufman, Shteynshlayfer, Shuster –a wedding entertainer, a clockmaker, a tailor, a glassmaker, a trader, a stone polisher, a shoe maker….

These are the Jewish names in which the professions of their first bearers are reflected. The world that generated these names perished in the flame of the world wars and in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Now thousands of Jews around the world are bearing these names….

Judaica
Symbolism
Kabrealism
Pallete knife