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A rich, nuanced, and sensitive treatment of this brilliant but often neglected painter. The work is especially valuable for its investigation of Halaby's formative years as a Russo-Palestinian artist growing up in Kiev and Mandate Palestine. --Salim Tamari, professor of sociology, Birzeit University and research associate, Institute for Palestine Studies Schor's skillful and painterly approach to Sophie Halaby's life, work and city gives insight into the remarkable character of a Arab-Russian woman . . . and into her cosmopolitan city of Jerusalem, sketching for us memories of a place that we can barely perceive through the dismal haze of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Like Sophie Halaby's paintings and work, Schor's book outlines the wispy contours of a world full of potential where the salons of Paris were just a steamer ticket away for an aspiring Arab woman artist, but one that is constricted by war, colonialism, nationalism, and expropriation over the course of the twentieth century. --Leila Hudson associate professor, University of Arizona

Schor's skillful and painterly approach to Sophie Halaby's life, work and city gives insight into the remarkable character of a Arab-Russian woman . . . and into her cosmopolitan city of Jerusalem, sketching for us memories of a place that we can barely perceive through the dismal haze of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Like Sophie Halaby's paintings and work, Schor's book outlines the wispy contours of a world full of potential where the salons of Paris were just a steamer ticket away for an aspiring Arab woman artist, but one that is constricted by war, colonialism, nationalism, and expropriation over the course of the twentieth century. --Leila Hudson associate professor, University of Arizona A rich, nuanced, and sensitive treatment of this brilliant but often neglected painter. The work is especially valuable for its investigation of Halaby's formative years as a Russo-Palestinian artist growing up in Kiev and Mandate Palestine. --Salim Tamari, professor of sociology, Birzeit University and research associate, Institute for Palestine Studies

Schor's biographical study of Halaby is the first book on an Arab woman painter of the latter's generation. Her vigilant and painstaking research conducted over the years brings the pioneering artist from Jerusalem back to life. As the historian leads her reader through a minefield of explosive depths crammed with culprits and victims, she forges a way beyond religious or nationalist blinders to reveal the sheer humanity of the artist. In the process, the reader learns what a creative woman experienced during a tragic period in her country's history and how she never ceased striving to capture in her painting what has been eternally beautiful in the city of her forefathers. From the foreword--Kamal Boullatam author of Palestinian Art From 1850 to the Present Schor's skillful and painterly approach to Sophie Halaby's life, work and city gives insight into the remarkable character of a Arab-Russian woman . . . and into her cosmopolitan city of Jerusalem, sketching for us memories of a place that we can barely perceive through the dismal haze of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Like Sophie Halaby's paintings and work, Schor's book outlines the wispy contours of a world full of potential where the salons of Paris were just a steamer ticket away for an aspiring Arab woman artist, but one that is constricted by war, colonialism, nationalism, and expropriation over the course of the twentieth century. --Leila Hudson associate professor, University of Arizona A rich, nuanced, and sensitive treatment of this brilliant but often neglected painter. The work is especially valuable for its investigation of Halaby's formative years as a Russo-Palestinian artist growing up in Kiev and Mandate Palestine. --Salim Tamari, professor of sociology, Birzeit University and research associate, Institute for Palestine Studies

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Laura S. Schor is professor of history at Hunter College and The City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of several books, including The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau's School for Girls, 1900-1960.

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