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This book is a study in comparisons between two of the most prominent Jewish artists of the 20th century: the Polish-born story-teller Isaac Bashevis-Singer and the Russian-born creator of visual magic, Marc Chagall. This work discusses how, while both artists were affected by these Western influences, they remained firmly entrenched within the Jewish culture the Yiddish language and life in the shtetl from which they drew their inspiration. Author Ruth Dorot demonstrates how both artists shared, albeit unwittingly, a common meta-realistic style for combining the earthly with the supernatural...

Drawing parallels between literature and the arts specifically between drama and painting in terms of Time and Symbolism, this book focuses on the connection between the play "The Lady of the Castle" by Leah Goldberg and in a group of selected paintings by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Paul Klee, and Edward Munch. The book explores their common thematic, structural, and stylistic characteristics. In attempting to understand the temporal/symbolic linkages of the text and paintings, much importance is attributed to the relationship between representer and represented and between...