On the 75th anniversary of the resurrection of the Jewish state in the Land of Israel, it is Szyk’s unwavering and enduring love of Israel which serves as a model of perpetual devotion and action.

An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing caricatures of Nazism and the horrors of the Holocaust. Arthur Szyk’s compelling ...

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut — Artist Arthur Szyk’s January 1942 cover for Collier’s International pulled no punches. Hitler stands behind a globe while a pair of skeletons wearing SS uniforms scurry across ...

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC-Berkeley has acquired the most significant collection of works by Arthur Szyk, a Polish Jewish artist and political caricaturist who depicted the ...

“An artist, especially a Jewish artist, cannot remain neutral in these times. He cannot escape to still lifes, abstractions and experiments.” These words, uttered in 1934, belong to Polish-Jewish ...

For as long as I can remember, the great Polish-American Jewish artist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) has held a proud place at my Passover seder, courtesy of his hauntingly dynamic illustrations of the ...

Political cartoons have a rich and often influential history in this country. The 20th century illuminator Arthur Szyk was known as both a caricaturist and provocateur – his work was used in the US ...

I first met Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) and discovered his Haggadah in 1975. In search of a gift for each member of my wedding party, I wandered into Bloch’s Judaica bookstore on Manhattan’s West Side and ...

Prominent caricaturist and book illustrator Arthur Szyk used his artistic talents to expose human atrocities, especially the Nazi genocide of Jews in Europe during the 1930s and '40s. A native of ...

An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing caricatures of Nazism and the horrors of the Holocaust. A 1942 cartoon by Arthur Szyk ...

Forty years ago, the young rabbi Irvin Ungar found himself enamored with the work of a Polish émigré illustrator, Arthur Szyk. The artist’s last name (pronounced Shik) had been known to readers of ...