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“This masterful historical reconstruction gives welcome due to a forgotten talent.” —Publishers Weekly “This first-ever critical biography of Rahel Szalit skillfully recovers and reassembles the scattered fragments of her life to create a vivid mosaic of an artist forgotten because she was Jewish, a woman, queer, and, in many ways, stateless. Based on meticulous archival work, Kerry Wallach’s brilliant book recuperates an unjustly neglected chapter in the history of Jewish art and interwar culture.” —Daniel H. Magilow,University of Tennessee, Knoxville “Wallach creates a rich, lively, and very detailed picture of Rahel Szalit-Marcus as an artist and a person through extensive research across a wide range of resources. Traces of a Jewish Artist gives depth and nuance to scholarly conversations about modern Jewish art in Europe. It expands histories of Jewish and women artists in early twentieth-century Germany and poignantly demonstrates the significant loss of so many stories.” —Celka Straughn,Deputy Director for Public Practice and Curatorial, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

“This first-ever critical biography of Rahel Szalit skillfully recovers and reassembles the scattered fragments of her life to create a vivid mosaic of an artist forgotten because she was Jewish, a woman, queer, and, in many ways, stateless. Based on meticulous archival work, Kerry Wallach’s brilliant book recuperates an unjustly neglected chapter in the history of Jewish art and interwar culture.” —Daniel H. Magilow,University of Tennessee, Knoxville “Wallach creates a rich, lively, and very detailed picture of Rahel Szalit-Marcus as an artist and a person through extensive research across a wide range of resources. Traces of a Jewish Artist gives depth and nuance to scholarly conversations about modern Jewish art in Europe. It expands histories of Jewish and women artists in early twentieth-century Germany and poignantly demonstrates the significant loss of so many stories.” —Celka Straughn,Deputy Director for Public Practice and Curatorial, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

“This first-ever critical biography of Rahel Szalit skillfully recovers and reassembles the scattered fragments of her life to create a vivid mosaic of an artist forgotten because she was Jewish, a woman, queer, and in many ways, stateless. Based on meticulous archival work, Kerry Wallach’s brilliant book recuperates an unjustly neglected chapter in the history of Jewish art and interwar culture.” —Daniel H. Magilow,Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville “Wallach creates a rich, lively, and very detailed picture of Rahel Szalit-Marcus as an artist and a person through extensive research across a wide range of resources. Traces of a Jewish Artist gives depth and nuance to scholarly conversations about modern Jewish art in Europe. It expands histories of Jewish and women artists in early twentieth-century Germany and poignantly demonstrates the significant loss of so many stories.” —Celka Straughn,Deputy Director for Public Practice and Curatorial, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

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Kerry Wallach is Associate Professor and Chair of German Studies and an affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program at Gettysburg College. She is the author of Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany.

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