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Israel Abramofsky | |
| Birth Date: September 10, 1888 |
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| Death Date: January 16, 1975 Artist Gallery |
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| Born near Kiev, Russia, Israel Abramofsky was a city-landscape painter and one of his favorite subjects was villages in Breton, France.
He served in a Siberian prison camp, and in 1929 went to Toledo, Ohio to join his two brothers. He worked as a welder and studied art in the evening. Abramofsky was in Paris several times between 1914 and 1925 and studied at the Academie Julian.
Israel Abramofsky through his own description of Rabbinical Decision: “This is a drawing of a Rabbi that has been helping a Jewish family to make an important decision – the image helps us to understand how religion and religious people help in matters of importance”.
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